TR for upcoming weekend 5/13 to 5/17

[JestersHK]

2 hours ago, Jhoff said:

You guys going to be fishing tonight?

Yes sir we are wadering up now.  Shoot me a PM if you want, and I'll send ya my cell.  We're about 15 or 20min out

[JestersHK]

2 hours ago, Jhoff said:

You guys going to be fishing tonight?

Yes sir we are wadering up now.  Shoot me a PM if you want, and I'll send ya my cell.  We're about 15 or 20min out

[JestersHK]

Well after last night a few of the guys needed some sleep... not sure why.  We awoke to the rain,  had some breakfast, and decided to go out with some fly rods behind Point Royale since the water was still off.

There were sculpin everywhere up there lastnight so I tied on @BilletHead clouser in orange and olive.  I got hit on the 2nd cast with a big chunky bow.  Proceeded to hook and land a few more on a fast strip until the blew the horn and water started rising.

Seth arrived and picked us up and we made a run to the dam with little to show for it in the rain.

The wind picked up and Kev stuck a hook in the ol finger so we headed to Phil's and had Duane do the line trick.  Worked like a champ.  You da man Mr. Doty.

We fished the evening after dinner when the wind died down and had an ok jig bite going, not allot of jerk bait action though...

Went back out tonight down past outlet one and had good luck with 2 units then 3 units going.  Started whacking some big fat bows, and we got 2 bonus Walter's for dinner tonight.  Overall another beautiful day on the lake!  2 more hours now and we'll be heading out again.  I think I'm gonna take a nap lol

[JestersHK]

A few more from tonight. Jerk baits were money as usual although I did catch a Walter on an 1/8 sculpin olive head jig. 

Seth finally got to get out and wade fish with me... we've been tying for years now lol

Oh and forgot Seth caught our fist brownie of the weekend.   He was a mini Frank with a hump back starting.  Cool fish

[Jhoff]

My pictures didn't turn out, I'm not much of a photographer that's my wife's job (literally).  2 friends and I were fishing up by the cable we had around 25 trout or so and 7 walleye all on x-raps.  Pretty happy with my first chance to get to taney this year.

[dpitt]

Thanks for posts, Got a reader request, Love to hear what happens if you threw a mouse pattern tonight on a fly rod  

[JestersHK]

Jhoff I'll have to coordinate better with ya.  Saw you guys catching them. 

dpitt it can be tough up there with 3 units and a long rod but I'll see what I can do!

We're off again to go get after them while it's not raining

[JestersHK]

We hit it hard today. I threw jerks almost the entire time with nothing big to show for it.  I broke my phone screen too so limited posting and I'll have to get pics from the others.  Maybe @Seth  can fill you in on our close encounter with a big brownie.  I'll let him tell that story lol.

Boated a bunch of fish in both boats, no big ones though.  Rain got ugly, got a good soaking a few times as well.  Ray did take my pic the other day which came out nice.

[JestersHK]

On a brighter note I may actually sleep tonight lol.  Oh and shout out to Blake as I used one of his SS jerkbaits and it got it done today!

[Seth]

We were surprised to see the water off this morning. After we got packed up, we decided to go fish till 1pm up in the trophy area. The jerkbait action was a bit slow in the lower flow, but the jig bite was hot. The best stretch for us was about halfway  between the Narrows and Lookout. Most of what we caught were 12-14” rainbows but a few in the 17-18” were landed. Sculpin/orange jigs did most of the damage.  a few came on pink/white too. Just to mix things up, I broke out the long rod and fished an olive micro jig under an indicator and caught several.

For whatever reason, that same stretch was very slow for us when the generators were cranking the previous couple of days.

 

I’m hoping the Gopro caught the brown trout busting shad yesterday. That fish was coming completely out of the water. I fired up the big motor to get within casting distance and got bit on a white jig on my first throw, but I rolled whatever bit and didn’t get hooked up. The fish we saw busting shad looked like it was in the 20-22” range.