School's Out!

[rps]

Friday was my last teaching day until August. Sunday was the first day I could celebrate by being on the lake. I started before 6 and found the water rise and weather had changed things. Instead of a n easy top water bite, I had to work. The places I fished (up river from Holiday Island) did not have aggressive fish. Not one fish hit a walked bait. They wanted a twitch/small chug. None were large.

Some whites exploded around me, but they too disdained my top water. Their forage was 2 inch bait fish, and they didn't seem to want anything larger. Only caught two. Since things were so odd, I decided to skip fishing soft plastics. I went straight to walleye fishing. First I tried trolling I put a Flickr Shad under the bait fish at 9 and at 14 feet. Nada. I tried Lindy rigging night crawlers at 10 to 18 feet. Nada.

Finally, around 10:30, I began to fish one of my chartreuse crawler harnesses. I found them at 10 feet on a sandy/gravel inside bend moving at 1.1 to 1.4 mph. 10 walleye, 1 channel cat, 4 bass, and 3 bluegill before I quit at 2:. I long distance released 2 other walleyes. Two of the walleye were barely keepers but all the rest were over 15 inches.

One of those not great days, but can't complain.

[bfishn]

Thanks for the report! Enjoy the break.

I have the 10th & 11th off, intend to drown some worms 'round there if nothing else comes up. Arkansas River catfish might win the coin toss though, just depends on the water & weather.

[kjackson]

Quick question-- When you're building your spinners, are you making them floaters or are you running just beads for the body?

[howards cowards]

Glad to here you are back on the water RPS. I hope it is a good summer break for you.

[magicwormman]

Enjoy your reports!!

Glad to see you're back on the water, so we know what's going on at your end of the lake.

[fishingaddiction]

Thanks for your report rps. Enjoy your fishing since summer break is in for you. Keep the reports coming. Good Fishing.

[rps]

@kjackson: I have not built a bead only spinner in three years. I use float beads and a size 1 or 1/0 worm hook. I rig the crawler Texas style even though it squirms.

[kjackson]

Randy-- that sounds like you're using the same pattern as the old Lindy Fuzz-E-Spin. That had a flocked (to hold scent better) float and used a Tru-Turn worm hook. It worked great..thanks for the info. If it ever stops raining, I'll give it a shot.