2/27-3/21 Beaver and K dock

[top_dollar]

            My brother and I fished out of Beaver and K dock this past weekend.  Water temp was in the upper 40s for the most part, and visibility of a few feet.  Friday we fished out of Beaver creek from 1-5ish. We ran up beaver creek to the first bend, and fished around with jerkbaits and swimbaits with no luck and didn't see much on the graph either.  Went back out to the main part of the lake and drifted/casted swimbaits around the channel drops.  Ended up with 4 keeper crappie, a short walleye, and a handful of spotted bass.  

           Saturday we went out with a guide out of K dock (Jesse Cockrum Tri Lakes Guide Service).  He said crappie were biting well, and walleye were tough.  We scoped up 30 solid keepers and a few shorts in about 2.5 hours.  They were all scattered fish, either solo or in pairs.  Its amazing you can just target the big ones with a live scope since he could tell the size and species of most of them.  Also it would be almost impossible to catch those fish without a live scope.  They were swimming randomly 4-40 feet down, over 15-50 FOW.   He also showed us a spot that had 100+ walleye on it, but we were only able to make 3 of them bite.  They would just follow it most of the way back to the boat and turn away when they got too close.  

            Saturday afternoon we went back to the same spot with the walleye and were able to graph them with our 2d, but only caught 1.  We did manage about a dozen or so bass which kept it fun.  All of the walleye we caught were 17 inches, except for 1 baby about 10 inches long. We caught almost everything on 3-4 inch swimbaits on 1/8-1/4 oz heads.  The guide used basically identical tackle, but also used some half oz heads to get down to the deeper crappie.

[Phil Lilley]

Great report.  Thanks

[Big Keene]

cant say enough good things about Jesse from Tri-lakes guide service. Very knowledgable about the lake and just fun to fish with!