Location: Highway 12
Time: 3:00PM-8:00PM
Air temp: 65 degrees
Water temp: 58 degrees
Clarity: Stained
Visibility: 12"
Wind: NE 10-15
Sky: sunny
Winning tactic: Casting 1/8th oz white grubs on the hump in 4 FOW
Catch: 1 largemouth, 1 smallmouth, 1 walleye, 4 stripers, 3 hybrids, 4 whites
We started out trolling flicker shads in 18 FOW. We weren't really marking anything in the cove so we went out to the gravel bar between the island and the ramp. We picked up a fish on each pass on the north side of the bar. We went to the brush pile by the bluff to get out of the wind a bit. Caught a few on the white grub casting at the shore. As the sun set, there was some surfacing by the buoys. We sat on the south side of the bar and cast up in the shallow. We would let it hit bottom, reel a few turns, repeat. Jon caught about 80% of the fish because I was caught up in using what worked last time instead of finding out what the fish wanted and giving it to them. When we got back to the house, one of the fish had coughed up a shad that looked like the grub he was using. I think the wind was blowing the bait towards the bar and as the sun was setting the fish started chasing bait up on the bar. I think we might have been a little more productive if we had tried a little george since the water was so stained, that way the fish could feel as well as see the bait.
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| Wind is blue, casting is red. |
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| Trolling route. |
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