Good Day Up Here

[rps]

When I went down to the boat Friday morning, I wasn't really expecting a good day. The weather forecast for clear skies and lower temps had me convinced I would have to deal with difficult post front conditions.

At daybreak the fog was fairly thick here so my first stop was a set of points in view of the marina. A couple of dinks caught my spook, but nothing of size seemed interested. I remembered one of Bill's posts and tried a short soft plastic up on the point, dragging from 12 or 15 feet into 25 feet. I professionally over ran the fourth or fifth cast. I picked it out, and when I reeled up my bait was swimming away. Solid keeper.

A short time later I noticed the boat had drifted over what appeared to be a school of fish holding on the point side edge. I dropped the jig straight down. That yeilded an 18 inch large mouth. The school was not there when I got the fish loose and released so I cast onto the point in the general area and dragged the bait over the edge. Caught two more keepers. Both picked up the bait during a pause and were just there when I put tension on the line to move it.

My second stop was up river at a location I call the graveyard because you can see a small one from the water. The river channel makes a short bend up against the bank, although if you looked at the water surface you would think the channel was on the other side. I tricked a squeeker keeper into taking the spook there, but nothing else. I went back to the jig and caught two more barely shorts. Both fish picked up non moving baits. By then the sun was burning through fog.

The third stop yielded nothing. I started trolling.

The fish I caught trolling came on light colored cranks (white, silver, chartreuse tiger) bouncing on the bottom or through tree tops at 26 to 28 feet. I fished areas from Stubblefield to Holiday Island and wound up with two keeper walleye as well as a dozen bass. Three of the bass would have been keepers and one of them was an chunky 18 inch spot. The bass were all on channel edges near little bumps and sticks. The first walleye was up on the flat and the second was a tree top fish.

A day with an intentional bass limit by 7:30 and two keeper walleye is a good day.

BTW, will someone remind me to charge the camera battery? I like adding pictures, but this morning I got the dreaded battery depleted signal when I tried.

[rangerman]

darn rps, take no prisoners, good job buddy. Get them on FF?

[rps]

I was out of the fat free in the size I needed to reach that depth. I used a bone Mag Wart until it hung itself, then a silver hot n tot, then a fire tiger Norman Deep Little N. The Fat Free series is excellent - if they were as cheap as warts I would carry more. A new order of the on sale Cabelas arrived yesterday evening. I lose so many baits trolling trees that I almost have to wait on sales. I need Bass Pro to have a Storm sale.

[rps]

Anyone have a dive curve on Cabelas Grave Diggers?

[Chief Grey Bear]

Nice report. Sounds like it was a great day to out on the lake.