White Bass Report

[Phil Lilley]

Yes- the rule applies up in Swan Creek above the 76 bridge. If you're in the lake, which it sounds like you are, you can keep 4 walleye over 18 inches per day, 8 in possession.

Walleye spawn in Swan Creek. This rule attempts to protect these fish when they hit the riffles at night to spawn. Poachers are known to net these walleye at night- or gig them.

[Jeff Burkhart]

Only two fish tonight. Tons of little studs in swan but was fishing where I caught them sows last night. One good size stud on white slider and good sized sow on a grey 1/80th oz. jig flippen the fly rod. Probably will shut off till she warms back up again. Oh-well more time to get my boat going.

[Phil Lilley]

Fished this evening from about 4:30 till dark. Fished the same spot and caught 4 sows- slow compared to the other day. Vince trolled the whole area most of the afternoon and ended up with 18. We tried a couple of places- caught 2 in the mouth of Silver Creek. Caught a small stud and a good stud at the bend in Swan late- just as it started raining harder. Saw some stringers with 3-5 whites on each only males. Seemed to get many short strikes in Swan - main lake too.

We cleaned the whites- out of 9- 6 were sows and 3 out of 6 were half spawned out. Figure that one out! Main lake is 45. Swan is 56 degrees.

Where the high steep clay bank stops above Swan about a mile- there were 2 guys fishing from the bank. One was using a white gitzit and he caught one walleye about 26 inches and one more about 20 inches. I've heard of him- he flats knows how to catch walleye and proved it tonight. Vince's crew caught one keeper trolling. They were trolling all over the place. Seemed like no place better than another. Most people are trolling now on the main lake. May be we should have too... but I hate trolling.