Pot Hole-Walleye Fish'n

[Paco]

Fished the Pot Hole Sat.& Sun nights, 9:00pm to 8:00am on Sat. 9:30pm to 2:30 am on Sunday. My Brother and I had 6 walleyes (3 keepers, big was 5 3/4 lbs)on Saturday, had 4 walleyes (2 keepers, big was 5 even)on Sunday. 3 fish caught on 1/4 oz. bucktail gray jigs, 1 on Table Rock Shad Rogue, 6 on pearl grub. The 2 big fish were females, eggs still firm and not bloody, the 3 males were not milting yet. I think that due to weather that season is 7-10 days late.

Have a good friend that talked to biologist last week, Biologist stated that they would be shocking this

Thursday night at Forsyth, In the past I have talked to the Biologists there at the ramp at River-Run, he stated that they have a quota to try to get. They try to get a certain number of 28 inch plus females to milk, plus 4-5 large males for each female. This could take 2-3 nights depending on the spawn.

Word of caution...Beware of the 12-14 foot whirl-pool that's about 2 feet deep at the end of the center wall on the generation side when they stop generating. This happened Saturday night at about 4:00am, this is the 3rd time I have witnessed this. This creates quite the pucker factor, especially when you are anchored or just fishing at the end on said wall. This could sink a small boat, IF... you have a weak trolling motor or your motor does not start on the first crank. This whirl-pool only lasts about 10-12 seconds, but seems a lot longer if you happen to be right there.

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