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« on: February 08, 2014, 10:18:21 PM »
I made it out for 2.5 hours today...I have been on them hard for the last 4 or 5 trips and threw back a bunch before i decided to keep a these. One fish was just short of 15, with a few 13 inchers thrown in.
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« on: February 08, 2014, 03:11:06 AM »
I am pretty sure I saw you Rusty, as I was taking my son to school (2 hour delay) driving across Robert Eastman. I talked to Jeff and was going to meet him but I had some fires to put out at work. I finally got out at 4 pm. I fished one of the old bridges in the creek channel. Raps..picked a few up, with slender spoons getting about 4 or five more. I had some nice marks but they didn't seem to want what I have been getting them on. At one point, I was thinking it would not be a good trip. I then switched to a Swedish pimple packed with spikes and I caught them for over an hour straight. I caught some really nice fish between 5 and 5:30. I also caught 2 12 inch walleyes. I did hook something nice after dark but lost it about a 1/3rd of the way up. I will be out all afternoon tomorrow and from about 7 till 12 on Sunday.
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« on: February 05, 2014, 08:51:47 PM »
Fishing is getting really good again...fish are definitely not in a normal pattern. Look very deep or very shallow. Walleyes have pretty much moved to a low light bite.
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« on: February 05, 2014, 08:49:40 PM »
I have patterned them pretty well...it took a couple of 2 trip days but I have found a pattern that is "so far from a normal early February bite" that its just plain strange. I was working 34 feet of water yesterday and pulled 20 white bass and about 30 crappies. About 12 to 14 of the crappies were 10.5 to 11 inches and all the whites were about 13 inches. Saturday, I pulled a full crappie limit..the smallest fish kept were about 10.5...and I culled through them to upgrade about 15 of them. Big crappie was just under 14 with at least half of my fish about 12 inches. The other fellas with me did very well also. I found fish in 6 to 7 feet of water over SPECIFIC bottom content with deeper water close. The fish seem to be very deep or very shallow. I have found them recently as shallow as 4 and 5 feet and as deep as 36 feet.
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« on: January 30, 2014, 12:27:51 AM »
Rusty,
You should head out to the main lake. So that was you I walked past as I headed out onto the main lake. I got off the lake at 7 tonight. Ice was 12 + inches everywhere I drilled tonight. Marina fish are moving around so much it makes no sense chasing them. Larger fish (and more of them) are out on the main.
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« on: January 29, 2014, 09:10:09 PM »
A friend checked the west shore today. I checked a few spots mid lake. What I have found in the last few trips is that the larger crappies are on the move....most have been suspended along breaks. The attractors have plenty of smaller fish. I have yet to find big crappies on any of the attractors. Tonight, I found large crappies and bluegills suspended off a break from 12 to 18 feet of water. Fish were suspended at 15 feet. The gills were the largest I have seen in awhile. Crappies were not as numerous but averaged 12 inches. I did catch 2 eyes, with 1 being 15 and one just short.
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« on: January 28, 2014, 09:30:56 PM »
I have a striker predator suit. The issues people read about are from when striker started a few years back. I have used both and the Striker suit is much higher quality..you don't sweat to death in one when moving around (Like the AA suit
).
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« on: January 25, 2014, 10:01:40 AM »
Bootyman: My suggestion is not to fish the the areas around the campgrounds yet. Water was open in large swaths both north and south of the campground point as recently as Tuesday. I would wait until at least next thursday to poke around the campground point (including the humps area) since you are not familiar with the lake. Pm me and I can let you know what days I will be out. I can help you out with where to go.
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« on: January 24, 2014, 09:53:46 PM »
Fishing was slow this morning but picked up as the day progressed. A good multi species day 
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« on: January 24, 2014, 02:38:15 PM »
Went out this morning onto the main lake. We found 9 to 12 inches of good ice in the area we fished. We stayed away from some areas I watched this week, areas that were open on Tuesday. They should all be good next week. Felt nice to pull some good fish out of 24 and 29 feet of water this morning. Just ate lunch and am heading back out solo. I will stay closer to shore this afternoon. With the weather out there and being by myself I will not venture too far out...be safe and take all the safety gear and the proper precautions...there are still some spots to avoid.
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« on: January 24, 2014, 02:30:10 PM »
Marc got called into work so I just came back in for some lunch..heading back out...the ice is bucking and cracking...don't freak out if a pressure crack opens under you and water runs up and out..its just the lake making ice. They are now forecasting -20 below next week...we will have a minimum of 15 inches. I am going to say we will have 18 to 20 by next weekend in some spots. We avoided many of the areas that I have been watching all week (stuff that was open as of Tuesday). Those areas should be good to go next week. If you venture out be really careful. This weather is flat out dangerous and requires planning if you are going out for an extended period. We did go out onto the main lake the whole morning.
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« on: January 23, 2014, 03:15:50 PM »
Icelover: There was open water on Sunday in a 15ft swath from the tip of one breakwall arm in the marine to the other. This is a traditional route used to get out to the main lake. The ice was just over 3 inches in that spot today (a little thin yet). The problem is there were large areas of water that were kept open by geese about 150 to 200 yards straight out from the marina channel. They closed up Tuesday night. In this cold, they MAY be about 3 to 4 inches now. I will be running parts of the main lake tomorrow and can give an idea of what is like out there later tomorrow night.
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« on: January 23, 2014, 03:07:09 PM »
Funny you asked..the MBR area had some spotty ice 2 days ago...I was planning on checking that tonight..I found ice between 2 and 5.5 inches. On Monday there was some open water from the drainage pipe heading northeast. I would imagine that everything NOT under a snow drift has added 3 or more inches since I checked it last. Will post my findings later.
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« on: January 23, 2014, 12:08:12 PM »
Ran a check this morning..most spots added about 2 inches last night. The spots I shoveled added just under 2 inches...problem is...it snowed again last night and has drifted back up on the 3 docks I cleaned. I checked the ice under some drifted snow and it has only added about another .5 inch...so be carefull. Looks like the coldest weather is next week...I have seen 16 to 18 inches on CJ in the past...with the cold they are forecasting for the next 10 days...I am willing to bet we will have 15+ inches on most of the lake...that kind of ice lasts into March..back in the good old days ice would break up in mid March (they had to hold the nets a few times till after March 20Th) and we would have a good walleye run along the Dam into the first week of April. Its looking good for us. Ice that thick can handle a strong warm spell and still be solid. I will be out later today fishing the main lake and out all of tomorrow.
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« on: January 22, 2014, 01:42:22 PM »
Took a 2 hour lunch and checked the ice in a few areas around the lake. The recent snow was pushed by the wind into the marina and along the Southeast/East side of the lake. There are now more drifts against the docks. This has not allowed the ice to thicken more than another half inch anywhere drifts are found. The ice out on the main lake varies from 2.5 inches to above 7 inches. The main lake had large open areas towards the campgrounds on Monday. They are now frozen, but cant be more than 2 inches thick. I am going to go back into the marina and shovel some areas around the docks to allow safer access to the marina bays (it will let them freeze up nicely). My suggestion is to be REALLY careful if you are going to go out in the next 2 days (tie off etc.) I found spots near the marina arms that had 7 inches of ice with 2 inches of white ice RIGHT next to them. I actually found 2 good paths onto the main lake and will be keeping those a secret for now I will go out and test some more spots tomorrow and post my findings.
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