Thread: Rathbun

Sure would be nice if they could get some dredging done there.

Just got home from Rathbun. LOTS of wind (as usual). Thurs cleaned 20, Fri cleaned 18, Sat cleaned 49. ALL fished kept were 11" +. Sat my first 4 fish weighed 6.25# (cert scale). Most fish being caught in lower end of lake, however one of the teams in CAST tourn was up N Fork. Water clear - stained and found 60-68 water. We spent most of the day, Sat, around the marina, and the rocks in Buck Creek, anyone who know us, knows we don't like "crowds". Had to "swallow" that thinking and brought 10 bags of fish home. No one up the rivers, not too many braving the waves on the lake, did catch some Thur in the cove, but couldn't do anything there Fri and Sat. Honey Creek was packed on Sat. We didn't feel too good about the prefishing for the CAST tourn and didn't enter, BIG mistake. Sat we had 3 fish (1.77, 1.75, 1.73#). Big fish at tourn was 1.3 something and 1st place was 11+#. Of the 49 we cleaned, almost half were a pound.
You folks won't believe the quality of the fish being caught there this year. I think Rathbun has turned the cycle and its uphill from here. Now if we could do something about the cooler full of dinks we seen people cleaning.