Report; 5/29/18

[Crestliner08]

Walt & I launched and started fishing around 7:45 am this morning. Sky was cloudless and clear, with the air at 67 (with a predicted high of around 90!) and the water temp 65 degrees. Winds were calm to about 5 mph later in the morning. When we pulled off at 12:45 pm, we had only caught & released 20 fish! A big disappointment for us for sure. Air temp at that point had reached 88 degrees! Hot out there!

Most of the fish caught were crappie, with 2 bluegill, 1 pickeral and 1 rainbow trout (which took a fancy to an all white, 1/16 oz. horse head marabou jig). We targeted the 10' - 16' depths where we took most of the decent crappie. We also got some over the 22' depths as well. They were centered around bait balls here & there. No heavy concentrations - yet. It's early, so as the season progresses we'll start seeing more schools of crappie out deep, chasing bait. (We do not like targeting the shallow, weedy bays, mainly because of the pickeral and the bite offs!)

Didn't take a lot of fish pics....most were average size about like this one:



This is the mating season for loons up here and they were all over the place today. Took a shot of this fellow who constantly dove and came back up to swallow the bait fish he was targeting:





Pretty noisy characters. Great seeing them each trip. No eagles today, nor much of any other wildlife. Still a great day regardless. Targeting this Friday for another shot, but it depends on the weather folks.

One thing of note. The side mounted TM did well today, running for about 4 hours, the size 24 deep cycle seems to be just what the doctor ordered. However, I'm finding it difficult to maintain a course moving side ways. Very small steering corrections yield dramatic direction changes sometimes. Especially with a breeze.

Anyone have any experience - side pulling - they'd care to share with us? Becoming proficient with steering has become more of a challenge than I had anticipated!

[crp4570]

Great report. Enjoyed reading it. Congrats

[Slab]

Great pics, always a pleasure to read your stories. Thank you so much for sharing.

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Glad you guys got out.....it was a great day looks like

[franklin fisher]

20 average fish is nothing to be dissapointed about. Nice job. There are days I would kill to catch 20 average fish.

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