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                My brother and I did our May walleye excursion at Stockton this past weekend.  We trolled crankbaits, pulled spinner rigs, and jigged worms.  We trolled Hartley cove Friday afternoon, with only 3 keeper crappie to show for it.  The few we caught came on deeper running bandit 300's and strike king 3xd's, about 20feet down.  Lots of slime all through the water column.

                Saturday/Sunday and Monday we fished out of Orleans Trail.  The water temp was in the low- mid 60's, and I could see bottom in about 10FOW.  Also lots of slime throughout the water column. Saturday we caught 9 keeper walleye, several shorts (quite a few 14 7/8" fish), a handful of crappies, and black bass.  Most of the walleye came pulling spinner rigs in 25-30 FOW, with a few on a trolled crank.  We also caught 4 or 5 keeper bass and several shorts tossing swimbaits, and jigging worms first thing saturday morning.  Sunday we caught 4 more walleye and 2 crappie pulling spinner rigs before 9am, then commenced to not even get a bite the entire rest of the day.  It was oddly drastic how quickly the bite shut off.  We were still marking fish in the same location, they just wouldnt bite.  Monday we fished a few hours, it was slow, caught 1 white bass and went home.  

 

 

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2 hours ago, top_dollar said:

                My brother and I did our May walleye excursion at Stockton this past weekend.  We trolled crankbaits, pulled spinner rigs, and jigged worms.  We trolled Hartley cove Friday afternoon, with only 3 keeper crappie to show for it.  The few we caught came on deeper running bandit 300's and strike king 3xd's, about 20feet down.  Lots of slime all through the water column.

                Saturday/Sunday and Monday we fished out of Orleans Trail.  The water temp was in the low- mid 60's, and I could see bottom in about 10FOW.  Also lots of slime throughout the water column. Saturday we caught 9 keeper walleye, several shorts (quite a few 14 7/8" fish), a handful of crappies, and black bass.  Most of the walleye came pulling spinner rigs in 25-30 FOW, with a few on a trolled crank.  We also caught 4 or 5 keeper bass and several shorts tossing swimbaits, and jigging worms first thing saturday morning.  Sunday we caught 4 more walleye and 2 crappie pulling spinner rigs before 9am, then commenced to not even get a bite the entire rest of the day.  It was oddly drastic how quickly the bite shut off.  We were still marking fish in the same location, they just wouldnt bite.  Monday we fished a few hours, it was slow, caught 1 white bass and went home.  

 

 

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              I have always liked fishing out of Orleans Trail. Good fishing really close to the ramp. Parking can suck on a busy day though.

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         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

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it was weird for sure, a tale of 2 trips.

a day and a half of really good fishing, and a day and a half of really slow fishing, all under the same conditions.

no drastic environmental changes or anything. they just stopped biting.

i've never seen so much snot in the water in this lake.

i've never seen a bite change so dramatically

i've never seen so many box turtles swimming across the cove

 

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2 hours ago, Big Keene said:

it was weird for sure, a tale of 2 trips.

a day and a half of really good fishing, and a day and a half of really slow fishing, all under the same conditions.

no drastic environmental changes or anything. they just stopped biting.

i've never seen so much snot in the water in this lake.

i've never seen a bite change so dramatically

i've never seen so many box turtles swimming across the cove

 

                 That green crap has me dragging my feet to head for the lake. 

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

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7 hours ago, top_dollar said:

                My brother and I did our May walleye excursion at Stockton this past weekend.  We trolled crankbaits, pulled spinner rigs, and jigged worms.  We trolled Hartley cove Friday afternoon, with only 3 keeper crappie to show for it.  The few we caught came on deeper running bandit 300's and strike king 3xd's, about 20feet down.  Lots of slime all through the water column.

                Saturday/Sunday and Monday we fished out of Orleans Trail.  The water temp was in the low- mid 60's, and I could see bottom in about 10FOW.  Also lots of slime throughout the water column. Saturday we caught 9 keeper walleye, several shorts (quite a few 14 7/8" fish), a handful of crappies, and black bass.  Most of the walleye came pulling spinner rigs in 25-30 FOW, with a few on a trolled crank.  We also caught 4 or 5 keeper bass and several shorts tossing swimbaits, and jigging worms first thing saturday morning.  Sunday we caught 4 more walleye and 2 crappie pulling spinner rigs before 9am, then commenced to not even get a bite the entire rest of the day.  It was oddly drastic how quickly the bite shut off.  We were still marking fish in the same location, they just wouldnt bite.  Monday we fished a few hours, it was slow, caught 1 white bass and went home.  

 

 

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So when you were bottom bouncing out 25 to 30 ft deep did u still have the slime?  I have been doing all my fishing south of 215 bridge where the water is not as clear so not as much slime.  I figured the 10 to 20 ft up north of there would be hard to stay away from the slime.

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1 hour ago, lmtout-fitters said:

So when you were bottom bouncing out 25 to 30 ft deep did u still have the slime?  I have been doing all my fishing south of 215 bridge where the water is not as clear so not as much slime.  I figured the 10 to 20 ft up north of there would be hard to stay away from the slime.

i was fishing with Top_Dollar. we didnt have much of an issue with it out at that depth. there was a lot of it from shore to 10-15 ft. there was a lot of it loose in the water, but it didnt seem to hang up on the line or rigs too much. 

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