Dam Site Report 06/11

[kjackson]

Hit the ramp late, about 7:30. My game plan was to check out some new water and see if I could find walleyes and whites. I did land a pair of 18-19 inch 'eyes on trolled crankbaits. Both fish were quite dark, leading me to believe they've been holding shallow. One was on transition between boulder/cliff/gravel and the other close to a gravel/chunk rock transition. Both were in the 15-20 FOW range.

Decided to head up Indian Creek to see if the rains had muddied it and try to find whites or walleyes up there. I did find a pair of nice spots back in a ways and some dinks and saw one striper get breakfast about 70 yards ahead of the boat.

About halfway back in the water was showing the effects of the rain with visibility dropped to maybe six feet or so as opposed to the 14+ feet in the main lake.

Temps were close to 75 when I pulled the plug about 2:30. There were quite a few boats on the lake and quite a few bank fishermen in the dam area..

I did see a couple of striper boats--one was a guide, I'm pretty sure, in the main channel, but they didn't stay around long and headed up lake. I think I'll head that way later in the week to check out new water and see if i can find something biting.

[J-Doc]

As they told men long ago...

"Go west young man....go west"

[Feathers and Fins]

Um where is the pics, I know I have seen them but both walleye were nice looking and other might be made to cry seeing them

Go West is a very smart move

[nathanhooper]

Thanks for the update. Yesterday was the first Wednesday in quite some time that I have not been out on the water. I was hoping to fish vicariously through someone else's trip.

I'll be back out soon. I jumped in up to my waist with my boat build project so I'm torn between working on it and fishing. Head west and tell me what its like...I hear its full of whisky, women, and gold...

[kjackson]

Here are pix of my two dinner guests: I guess I was in a hurry to get to the hot tub last night! One was taken on an out-of-production shad bait, and the other on a Rapala Tail Dancer, a lure that has been especially effective for me on everything but walleyes--until now.

I was surprised that there wasn't enough meat on the cheeks to pop 'em out. Even though both 'eyes had plenty of abdominal fat, the cheeks were really thin. In Washington, fish this size would have been perfect. It may have had something to do with this being the post-spawn period.

On a side note, I played a bit with a method that lets me troll in timber without getting hung up. However, it didn't catch any fish, but that may come with time, but then again, so might getting hung. We'll see.

I do appreciate the comments about heading west, and that might well be tomorrow's game plan if I can finish a work project today. I also need to clean up my spoon collection and re-line a rod for striper top waters--not that the latter will really be needed I imagine.

[Ron Burgundy]

Tail Dancer's are a great walleye crank.