Fishing Report 6-13-14

[Mike Worley]

Water temps 72-77 which is down a few degrees due to the recent rains. Also the creek arms have some color in the water. Lake level has come up to 662'+ which is the seasonal power pool for June 15 - July 15. The thermocline seems to be setting up at about 25-28'. I've been having some results on jigging spoons around brush piles in about 30' mostly decent keeper walleyes with sunny afternoons seeming to be best. I fished yesterday in the pt. 3 - pt. 7 area and found walleyes about a mile or so in the creek arms where water clarity seemed to be less than 10'. I tried trolling crank baits and bottom bouncers the, bottom bouncers caught the walleyes for me in about 20-24'. I tried a few main lake points and bays but didn't have any bites.

[Ham]

My fish are changing daily. I am NOT seeing the seasonal pattern set up the way it has in the past. We had 6 fish at noon and rallied to finnish with 60 bass brought to hand, BUT many of them are small. I had one non bass. Another channel cat on a finesse soft plastic. It would be interesting to try to catch catfish right now. I'm saving that for a Mississippi river trip though.

Water clarity was very much reduced from last Saturday. 10 foot or so instead of 20' I spend all morning trying to target bigger fish deeper. I was fishing water 15-30 foot. No soap. I caught the vast majority of my fish < 15 FOW. We had 2 fish on baitcasters every thing else was on spinning.

Very different weather than my last few trips, and my fish were not where I have been catching them. I had to find new fish, but I did find them.

[Fish24/7]

thanks guys

anybody seeing any schooling fish on top out there lately?

The bass spawn should be about finished and they oughta be bunching up now.

[Ham]

I've seen almost no surface activity and when I do see surface strikes, it's one fish and not a group of fish, sorta hurts my feelings.

[Bill Babler]

Ham, same exact deal on TR. Top Bite is from 5:15 to 5:30 and consists of one or two Kentucky bites. These fish on both Bull and TR are just full of Lobsters and they seem to only be looking under rocks to find them.

I think both lakes must have just had a huge hatch of crayfish and the predators are really working on them. A couple of weeks ago when we caught those really nice catfish and walleye, they were just full of daddy's.

I'm seeing plenty of both gizz. and threadfin shad on both lakes so they could have either. Another thing we were finding was that all the big 3 were spitting up small bluegill. That could have been since they were up there working shallow. This has stopped somewhat and it is just about straight crayfish since they moved out a bit.

Pretty much only took a limit both days to with the CPA this weekend. 24 pounds for two days. That is 12 pounds per day. Pretty slow. Talked to one of the guys that fished it. He lost the fish when we all did. Said he was catching 18 pounds a day 2 weeks ago and every bit of that moved. He weighed in 9 pounds for 2 days and just could not get bit by any size fish.

He had been fishing a shaky head in front of the bushes and out to 24 ft. on the bluffends and where the channel swung into the bank. Had also been throwing a 7" swimbait on the bluffends. That deal dried up on him but he just could not get anything else figured. Said he had not worked the long flat runnouts, just could not make himself fish that slow that deep after the last 6 weeks catching them like he had been.

It is really, really hard to give up a pattern that has been working so well, with the topwater in and infront of the bushes and the jig SB and wobbler in front of the bushes. Those that can adapt usually win. Those of us that are stuck in our ways and cannot change usually struggle. I fall into the struggler, as I just have a hard time changing and moving, always thinking it is locations and timing rather than a complete move.

I'm working on it.

Good Luck

[Mike Worley]

I fished Saturday in the pt.3-pt.16 area. We used bottom bouncers and could only find smaller walleyes in the 20-24' range. We moved out to 28-30' and found better fish with a couple of walleyes in the 5 lb class. I think they were feeding on crawdads and tapping the bottom bouncer weight on lake bottom did seem to trigger the fish to bite. Found crawdad parts in the livewell.

[Bill Babler]

Thanks Mike. Did you all catch in bass out there with them? Got to think a soft thermocline is setting up in the usually 26 ft. range so a few feet either side of it on either the Rock or Bull us usually the ticket, either suspended or on the bottom.

[Ham]

I may go Thursday and just force myself to stay out and fish the 20-40 foot zone. I'm still catching plenty of fish shallow, but they are mostly small. I am getting a few keepers per trip, but not as many as I would like.

In years past, I could go out there and drag a tube and get GOOD fish. All the fish would be good chunks. Not all of them would keep, but all of them made me smile. I also would get a few eyes thrown in the mix. I was surprized at first how many eyes were biting the tube, But not anymore.

I may very well do a solo trip and just grind and try new things. No pressure to put other people on fish. I picked up a nail or something and I will have to get one of my boat trailer tires repaired first though.

[powerdive]

Tubes are jigs. Walleyes like jigs. Therefore, walleyes like tubes.