Upper End Report

[rps]

First, an update on water temp at this end. Believe it or not the temp is back up. Not as warm as down lake (83/84) but much warmer than earlier in the week. Just outside Holiday Island Marina this morning it was 71 and when I came back in it was 76. I do not know why unless Beaver ran out of cold water to send us. If that is the case then the trout upstream from here will be crying - as will the trout fishermen.

Early I fished a Spook Jr. with no success. I changed to a knucklehead (jointed chugger) and got one keeper spot just outside Stubblefield Branch. I ceased fishing on top around 8:00 and began throwing a twin tail grub on a football head jig. I had several hits that I missed and caught one keeper largemouth in 20 plus feet of water on a point not far from Eagle Rock. I would have fished deeper, but this far up, 50 feet is the middle of the main river channel at Eagle Rock.

I then marked 200 yards of the channel edge near Eagle Rock with buoys and fished the edge with a white jigging spoon. I might have had one hit, but no connection. I then trolled that marked section and caught a third keeper, a spot. I also had a very large fish - looked like a walleye - on for several minutes. Based on experience the fish was over five and probably closer to seven pounds. I saw only one flash. The hooks pulled out before I could see more or officially count the fish.

The trolling fish hit a white reef runner deep diver (actually a Cabela's knock off) on 145 feet of Power Pro 10 pound braid. Dive charts say the bait was running 29/30 feet deep. The fish were in little stick ups on the channel edge.

Boat traffic was heavy for a weekday. Even putting out the buoys to show where I was fishing didn't slow the boaters down. I guess I'm lucky they didn't ask me to set out more for a slalom course?

[flipper]

I fished point 10 area with about the same outcome one keeper spot early on chugger. switched to jig with no luck ended the day with a spoon was skunked on that. water temp was 87. boat and lake flees got so bad I put the boat on the trailer about 2:30.

[Bill Babler]

Flip, if you made it till 2:30 you did really great. The zoo started at the Knob early.

RPS, did you remember to pick up all your markers? I don't need to tell people Gps cords, they can just find the orange markers I have forgotten to pick up.

[S&M]

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