Fishing Report 5/8/10

[mrgungho]

We put in @ Pontiac on Saturday morning around 9:30 and headed South. We never even made it past Oakland. We basically stopped at the first main point we came to and it was on. I caught an 18.5 on my second cast with a DD22 "Blue Gill" and shortly after, my buddy caught a 23" walleye on a DD22 in "Root Beer". Continued on to some secondary points and switched over to a Deep Lil N "Apocalypse" and just started slaying the Smallmouth and also caught several Walleye on this bait too. (basically all of these fish were caught in about 14' to 20' of water) My buddy started throwing a Deep Lil N "Black Spat" and he was just hooking up with keeper Walleye back to back to back. I had a Rogue tied on so I figured what the heck and started throwing it around a bit in some 6' to 10' water and caught several Smallmouth and a few Walleye on that too.

Then we got into a cove with big slab rock and started throwing a Chompers Double Tail Hula Grub in "Watermelon Candy" and caught another 18.5 keeper on the first cast. Caught a couple more, then lost my grub so I just switched back to the Deep Lil N Apocalypse and kept it going.

All in all we probably caught 15 or 18 keeper Walleye and 20 or more Walleye shorts. I caught about 15 Smallmouth but all were just short, around 13.5 or 14" (still great fun of course) Caught the 2 18.5 Largies and about 10 other Large shorts. The last fish of the day was a 13" Kentucky. By that time we were so worn out from fishing those cranks all day and catching so many fish that we called it a day with 1.5 hours of daylight still left!! (we normally ALWAYS stay out until dark!)

Anyways, I have never caught so many Walleye in one day. The only baits we tried that didn't work were a Spinnerbait for a few casts and an 8" worm and a pearl white fluke. (and we only threw these a handful of time each) It was truly an awesome day on the water.

GungHo

[Sore Thumbs]

We put in @ Pontiac on Saturday morning around 9:30 and headed South. We never even made it past Oakland. We basically stopped at the first main point we came to and it was on. I caught an 18.5 on my second cast with a DD22 "Blue Gill" and shortly after, my buddy caught a 23" walleye on a DD22 in "Root Beer". Continued on to some secondary points and switched over to a Deep Lil N "Apocalypse" and just started slaying the Smallmouth and also caught several Walleye on this bait too. (basically all of these fish were caught in about 14' to 20' of water) My buddy started throwing a Deep Lil N "Black Spat" and he was just hooking up with keeper Walleye back to back to back. I had a Rogue tied on so I figured what the heck and started throwing it around a bit in some 6' to 10' water and caught several Smallmouth and a few Walleye on that too.

Then we got into a cove with big slab rock and started throwing a Chompers Double Tail Hula Grub in "Watermelon Candy" and caught another 18.5 keeper on the first cast. Caught a couple more, then lost my grub so I just switched back to the Deep Lil N Apocalypse and kept it going.

All in all we probably caught 15 or 18 keeper Walleye and 20 or more Walleye shorts. I caught about 15 Smallmouth but all were just short, around 13.5 or 14" (still great fun of course) Caught the 2 18.5 Largies and about 10 other Large shorts. The last fish of the day was a 13" Kentucky. By that time we were so worn out from fishing those cranks all day and catching so many fish that we called it a day with 1.5 hours of daylight still left!! (we normally ALWAYS stay out until dark!)

Anyways, I have never caught so many Walleye in one day. The only baits we tried that didn't work were a Spinnerbait for a few casts and an 8" worm and a pearl white fluke. (and we only threw these a handful of time each) It was truly an awesome day on the water.

GungHo

Thanks for the report. What is the clarity like? Use any grubs? Topwater?

[mrgungho]

Thanks for the report. What is the clarity like? Use any grubs? Topwater?

sorry to get back to you so late...the water was just a small amount stained for the most part..deeper water was clearer of course...the only grub we used were the Chompers Double Tail Hula Grubs...didn't even throw a topwater. Closest thing was the fluke and got no action on it.

[Sore Thumbs]

Wow. That surprises me about the flukes. We caught the heck out of them at Table Rock with them. A buddy and me are fishing in a tournament there in June and have never been on BS before, so I am trying to gain as much knowledge about this lake as possible.If you have any general tips about fishing BS I am all ears. Thanks again for your help.

[mrgungho]

Wow. That surprises me about the flukes. We caught the heck out of them at Table Rock with them. A buddy and me are fishing in a tournament there in June and have never been on BS before, so I am trying to gain as much knowledge about this lake as possible.If you have any general tips about fishing BS I am all ears. Thanks again for your help.

I hear you...I was very suprised about the Flukes. We had just fished a tourney on Table Rock the week before and it was ALL Spooks and Flukes so we figured for sure the fluke would work on BS..but no such luck. I will have to say that I did not devote too much time to trying the Fluke since the crankbait bite was so good. But I did give it a good 20 or 30 casts. Anyways, I will post a report everytime we go out for sure.