TR place holder for next week!

[Johnsfolly]

Very nice buddy! Get some rest and get back after them!

 I want to see a brown by the end of your trip😁.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Great report.  Glad you and that stranger got to meet back up.  Hopefully you get to meet Harris.  He's a good guy. 

[JestersHK]

Got down around 10 tonight.  The little white husky jerk has been money this evening.  Super slow retrieve and just a twitch every now and then and they are hammering it.  Over a dozen in the first 2 hours.

Lots of little stockers are up here by the dam, but you just have to weed through them to get to nicer fish. Picked a few stockers up on an olive and ginger jig as well.

Caught a small Walter and a white bass too, and one fat bellied bow that gave me a nice ride.

Flying solo tonight so pics aren't the best... Super foggy tonight too.  

[JestersHK]

Finished up at 8 this morning. Took a nap in the car for a little bit, and went back out at 430 up to rebar.  Once it got light out I had a pretty good pink SJW bite on the fly rod for about 20 min...  Caught a few jigging too, then once the sun was up they shut off for me...

I was worried I might catch on fire, but apparently I haven't fully turned nocturnal yet as I witnessed a beautiful sunrise today! Fish were just normal stockers so no pics either.  I'm a bit lazy and tired lol.  Gonna sleep for a few, then maybe go back out later this afternoon.

[Jhoff]

@JestersHK.  I will be fishing around Lilley's out of the yak tonight if you have one and want to join in the fun.

[JestersHK]

Don't have a yak... We'll likely be by rebar and the narrows.  If you need a shuttle or ride though just let me know.  Hopefully the night bite is as good as last night.

[JestersHK]

Night #3.  Fished from about 8 till 230.  We started by outlet 2 and my BIL and I both got hit by big Walters on the jerk bait. He got hit again on his next cast and we had 3 walleye in less than 10min.  Being we just started, we didn't want to be dragging fish all over the lake we let them go for somebody else to get em after a picture.

We decided to go down lake this night, and went way down past rebar.  I'm glad we did as we started hammering them in the flats down there.  We could see fish working and we just stopped mid lake and started catching.  

Again the jerk bait was king.  Fished super slow almost letting it sit on the surface, and twitching it on the retrieve.  They would hit from below and just crush it.  Landed some really chunky healthy fish that were just great fighters.

[trythisonemv]

Nice work . Wish i could get away from work

[JestersHK]

Night #4...

Well I'll start with day #4.  We took the whole family to wonders of wild life museum this morning.  I've been to a bunch of museums and aquariums across the US and I must say this one is fantastic and ranks right up there with the best of them.  The attention to detail is phenomenal and they really did not spare any expense.  

A quick tip to those that haven't been, eat a big breakfast as you're likely going to spend 4 to 5 hours there easy.  We skipped past lunch and had some hangry kids by the time we were heading out lol.  It's a bit pricey like most top museums, but none of us felt like we didn't get our money worth and then some.

Now onto fishing... Got back out tonight around 930 or so and fished till around 230.  We went back down past rebar again, but it was a lot slower tonight vs last night.  At least for the jerk baits it was.

I wanted to try down by the boat ramp and thought instead of driving down we'd just walk the bank, on the slick rocks, in the fog lol... Not my brightest decision and I'll blame it on sleep deprivation.

After finally getting down there about the only thing worth mentioning was the crazy amount of sculpin that were all over the place.  I mean thick!  They were literally everywhere.

After one dinky little stocker, we hit the trail downstream to the last little set of stairs by the narrow stretch down there.  Haven't really wade fished that since 2015 so we were pretty blinds going at it.  We found the channel and caught a few here and there.  Again mostly small stockers.

By this time it's already 1 so we started our March From the boat ramp back to the pavilion.  I'm a glutton for death marches apparently.

Finished the night between out let 2 and 3 and caught a few more bows and a small Walter. Slow night for us, but it happens.  Threw jerk baits all night and probably should of switched it up, but we were both pretty tired after a full day on our feet...

 

 

[JestersHK]

Little Walter.  This one also was released.  To tired to clean fish tonight lol..