Fishing Report 7/26/10

[Mike Worley]

I've been fishing out of Hwy 125 (Peel) for the last week or so. I found it to be a great area to fish. Yesterday we trolled crank baits early, switched to jigging spoons about 10AM and spent the rest of the day bottom bouncing with slow death spinner rigs. We trolled 800 Reef Runners till the water skiers & jet skis got out. We caught lots of fish mostly bass with a few walleyes mixed in. Lure color didn't seem to matter too much but you had to get deep 30'-40'. We moved to a main lake brush pile and caught about 12 walleyes in about 1 hour on jigging spoons. It was about straight up noon so we we took a boat ride a few miles up the lake and found some fish about 30'-35' foot deep inside a cove at the end of a bluff. Chartreuse & orange slow death spinner rigs with half a crawler seemed to work best for us. We caught about 25 or so walleyes during the day most of the walleyes we caught were shorts but we ended up with 4 keeper walleyes, 6 spotted bass, 1(close to 5lb) LMB, 1 crappie and about a dozen bull bream. It's almost August and the fish are doing what they normally do this time of year, seek out cooler water. Water temp was about 90 all day and the thermocline seemed to be about 30' with most of the fish at or below that level. Again we found the productive brush piles to be the ones loaded with bass fingerlings and 3/4 - 1 oz spoons to be the best size..................Mike Worley (www.bullshoalsfishing.com).

[kwall]

I've been fishing out of Hwy 125 (Peel) for the last week or so. I found it to be a great area to fish. Yesterday we trolled crank baits early, switched to jigging spoons about 10AM and spent the rest of the day bottom bouncing with slow death spinner rigs. We trolled 800 Reef Runners till the water skiers & jet skis got out. We caught lots of fish mostly bass with a few walleyes mixed in. Lure color didn't seem to matter too much but you had to get deep 30'-40'. We moved to a main lake brush pile and caught about 12 walleyes in about 1 hour on jigging spoons. It was about straight up noon so we we took a boat ride a few miles up the lake and found some fish about 30'-35' foot deep inside a cove at the end of a bluff. Chartreuse & orange slow death spinner rigs with half a crawler seemed to work best for us. We caught about 25 or so walleyes during the day most of the walleyes we caught were shorts but we ended up with 4 keeper walleyes, 6 spotted bass, 1(close to 5lb) LMB, 1 crappie and about a dozen bull bream. It's almost August and the fish are doing what they normally do this time of year, seek out cooler water. Water temp was about 90 all day and the thermocline seemed to be about 30' with most of the fish at or below that level. Again we found the productive brush piles to be the ones loaded with bass fingerlings and 3/4 - 1 oz spoons to be the best size..................Mike Worley (www.bullshoalsfishing.com).

Thanks Mike, I'm going to Stockton this weekend,going to use some of the tactics you showed us a few weeks back on that lake.