6-1-18 Dam Area Revisited

[Bill Babler]

Little better day for us a the dam today starting at 6 AM out of Moonshine.  Surface temp at the start was 84 and visibility is 10' plus.  Little bit of fog and a slight breeze and we just fished the flat points from Indian to the Belle.  Had  7 topwater fish on the 110 Pooper, 2 on the Jet then they got nasty when the sun hit. 

Durn it got hot quick, hot and still.  We stumbled around catching 14 more deep fish, all on the bottom in 30 to 40 ft. on gravel,  7 on a crawler and the other 7 on a purple cuttail worm.  At 10 we were all drenched in our own juices and about as miserable as you can get while trying to have fun.

Buster had the other part of the group and fished deep trees and did I believe about the same.  He used live bait.  Said they were 35' over 70 in the trees, but were not frisky at all.  They would look at it and then dive back into the trees

Better than the other day but pretty hard for me.

[rps]

4 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Little better day for us a the dam today starting at 6 AM out of Moonshine.  Surface temp at the start was 84 and visibility is 10' plus.  Little bit of fog and a slight breeze and we just fished the flat points from Indian to the Belle.  Had  7 topwater fish on the 110 Pooper, 2 on the Jet then they got nasty when the sun hit. 

Durn it got hot quick, hot and still.  We stumbled around catching 14 more deep fish, all on the bottom in 30 to 40 ft. on gravel,  7 on a crawler and the other 7 on a purple cuttail worm.  At 10 we were all drenched in our own juices and about as miserable as you can get while trying to have fun.

Buster had the other part of the group and fished deep trees and did I believe about the same.  He used live bait.  Said they were 35' over 70 in the trees, but were not frisky at all.  They would look at it and then dive back into the trees

Better than the other day but pretty hard for me.

I go for my fun. You must make fun for others. I won't swap. 🙂

 

[rps]

June 1 and guides are fishing crawlers and spoons in 30-35 feet of water. I fished for walleye that same day in 20-25 FOW. I guess I wasn't deep enough. Based on these reports, I know where I will fish tomorrow. I'm going to my August locations.

[vernon]

And to think that the week of May 5th (we were there thru the 12th) the surface temps were low to mid 60's!

Heck, we were half giddy looking ahead at the forecast for that week and seeing that it was supposed to actually get close to 80 degrees a couple of days.

I sure hope this isn't indicative of the summer months ahead or we'll all be spending a lot of time indoors.

I shall call it "The Anti-Winter".