Sunday morning 6/2 report

[ewlech]

I haven’t posted in a while so thought I would submit one.  Launched at Crabtree yesterday at 6am and Fished yesterday for about 6 hours.  Ran across the lake to a large creek arm and started off throwing the Whopper Plopper.  It was tough fishing it as there was so much debris all over the surface of the water.  For every 10 casts, 6 or so the Plopper would get fouled up.  Caught 2 in the first 20 minutes at which time I got tired of it fouling up and put a frog on.  Fished the frog for a while but only had 2 bow ups on it and missed both off them.  Threw a spinner bait, square bill, weightless worm, and a 3” soft swim bait around without getting a bite.

 

I have been out 4 or 5 times since the lake has been up and I have been catching 20-30 in 8 hours mostly fishing the old shore line with a 3” swim bait on a ¼ ounce jig head and the Ned rig. After not catching much up in the flooded trees, I pulled out to fish the 15-20 foot range of the old shoreline.  Fished that pattern on 5-6 different spots without much to show for it (threw a jig, swim bait, Ned rig, deep diving crank bait, and a wobble head with a Rage bug).  Ran out and fished a few main lake and secondary points without much luck.  Ran to a few bluff walls and threw the Ned rig.  Ended up catching 9 more on the Ned rig all off of one bluff wall stretch.  Out of the 11 I caught, only 3 would have weighed.

 

Not very many fishing boats on the lake but there were all kinds of sail boats out enjoying the lake.  I talked with a guy in  nice Lund boat who was trolling for Walleyes, he was having some luck with the eyes.  There wasn’t much wind out which normally makes the fishing a little slower.  Seems it is always either white capping  out or flat calm, nothing in between.  Crabtree was fine to launch but had the truck a ways out in the water to get the boat to float.  Taking out, my wife had to get her feet wet getting the boat cranked up on the trailer.  Water was in the low 70’s and the water was pretty clear up by the dam and got stained by the mile long bridge.