My Tournament today went fairly well, but it was definitely a grind. My goal going in was once again to catch 10lbs to keep me in contention for AOY. The temperatures dropped a fair amount and the morning started off a little colder than normal.
I started by throwing a spinnerbait around bulrushes with nothing to speak of. I was getting hung up in stringy shallow weeds on almost every cast and in the back of my mind I had thoughts telling me to move. I left the area and went down to the middle of West Rush to fish some large flats that were out in the middle of the lake. The flats had milfoil on them and I was burning a booyah spinnerbait over the top of them. After about 30 minutes I had put two fish in the boat. One was decent sized (1.5lbs), the other one was just a little swimmer(12 inches).
After I had hit the flats for awhile I moved to another patch of bulrushes, but this time I backed off. There was a curlyleaf pondweed weededge outside of the rushes and I was throwing to the outside edge of that. Most of the outside weedegdes around the lake were in the 10-12ft range. However, this spot had a hard bottom and this weededge only went to about 6 or 7ft. I pitched my All Terrain Jig to the outside edge of the weedline a caught a good fish right away, about 2lbs. I fished the area for a little longer with no bites, but finding this spot would come in handy later in the day.
I then went back to the flats area and picked up one more swimmer (barely went 12") on a spinnerbait. Knowing that I needed some bigger fish I went to fish some docks that I've had luck on in the past. On the second dock I threw to the edge of it and a pretty good sized bass came out and sucked my All Terrain Stick Worm right off the hook. I rigged up another one and on the next cast I landed a nice 3lb fish. I now had my limit and it was 9:45am. However, I had two little guys in the livewell that needed to go.
I proceeded to run around the lake and try many other areas without any luck. It was a grind going that long without a bite. All I needed was two more good bites, so I just kept my head down and continued going. At 1:00 I landed my next fish, about 1.5lbs, on a jig next to a dock. This would cull one of the small ones. Then, with 15 minutes to go until check in I went back to the hard bottom weededge. On my first cast, my jig started swimming off to the side and I stuck a good 3 pound fish, I was a little overjoyed at this moment even though I still didn't have a spectacular limit. I did what I needed to do though, and that was to get rid of the two little fish I had. This would cull out the other small one and help me reach my goal of catching 10lbs.
Overall I ended up in 2nd place with 11lbs and some change. If I were to fish the day over again I would probably spend more time fishing that one hard bottom area that I had found. With the wind blowing into that spot later in the day I think it could have been good had I left myself more time to exploit the area.
My next tournament is with the Silverado Pro/Am Tour and I will be spending the next week up north. I hope you all have a good 4th, and maybe even have a chance to catch a fish or two over the holiday!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wisconsin Trip, Tournament Preview, 4th of July
My trip to northern Wisconsin was much needed. Not necessarily from a fishing perspective, but more so for relaxation. It was nice to get away from work and out of the metro area for awhile. My buddy Sam has a cabin on a small lake that is very close to the Turtle Flambeau Flowage; a large reservoir type system that is known for its walleye, muskies, and football looking smallies.
The first day up there, we put the boat in at the "Flowage". We started in a spot that was shallow with plenty of rocks and wood and the fish were biting right from the get go. We were catching them mainly on weightless flukes and zara spooks, man was that a blast! I got one picture of a smallie I caught, but haven't got it sent to me yet (I'll post it if I get it). I swear once these fish hit about 15-17 inches, they don't get any longer. Just wider! They looked like deformed footballs. As a storm blew though the area we parked the boat on an island and waited it out for a little bit. I was still throwing a zara spook from the bank and proceeded to miss two more fish during the storm, made for some excitement at least! After the storm we moved to another area that had muskies in it last year as well as some smallies. Sam and my other buddies, Matt and Adam, were chuckin and windin for muskies while I was throwing a fluke. I ended up getting one more smallie before another much stronger storm came in that forced us off the lake. Overall it was a very fun day on the lake chasing those smallmouth. Oh yeah...Sam also caught a walleye on a fluke. He asked himself at the beginning of the fishing trip whether a walleye would hit a fluke, I guess he answered his question! I thought that was pretty cool.
After a fun filled night, we hit the lake that Sam's cabin is on the next day. We ended up catching some largemouth on frogs and tubes up shallow and Matt also landed a nice Smallie from under a dock that day too. I really enjoyed my weekend up there and I couldn't think of anything better than spending time with good friends on a deserted lake in the north country.
Looking ahead to this weekend... I have a club Tournament up on Rush Lake near Rush City, MN. I have fished the lake a couple times before and was able to prefish it two weeks ago. I'm not sure fishing it two weeks ago helped me much in establishing a pattern for this weekend, but it was good to get out on the lake to familiarize myself with it again. Not quite sure what to expect, but I have some ideas and all I can hope is that those ideas pan out...we'll see.
I'm also heading up to my cabin on Sunday. I will be up there for an entire week and I can't wait. Over the 4th the fishing can be good up there at times. Its also a good place to practice and gain confidence in new techniques mainly because its not a tournament situation and most times I have a general idea of where the fish are since I've been fishing the lake since I was in diaper.
I will try and get a quick post in on Saturday night about how the tournament went before I leave for my cabin on Sunday. Until then, boat one for me!
The first day up there, we put the boat in at the "Flowage". We started in a spot that was shallow with plenty of rocks and wood and the fish were biting right from the get go. We were catching them mainly on weightless flukes and zara spooks, man was that a blast! I got one picture of a smallie I caught, but haven't got it sent to me yet (I'll post it if I get it). I swear once these fish hit about 15-17 inches, they don't get any longer. Just wider! They looked like deformed footballs. As a storm blew though the area we parked the boat on an island and waited it out for a little bit. I was still throwing a zara spook from the bank and proceeded to miss two more fish during the storm, made for some excitement at least! After the storm we moved to another area that had muskies in it last year as well as some smallies. Sam and my other buddies, Matt and Adam, were chuckin and windin for muskies while I was throwing a fluke. I ended up getting one more smallie before another much stronger storm came in that forced us off the lake. Overall it was a very fun day on the lake chasing those smallmouth. Oh yeah...Sam also caught a walleye on a fluke. He asked himself at the beginning of the fishing trip whether a walleye would hit a fluke, I guess he answered his question! I thought that was pretty cool.
After a fun filled night, we hit the lake that Sam's cabin is on the next day. We ended up catching some largemouth on frogs and tubes up shallow and Matt also landed a nice Smallie from under a dock that day too. I really enjoyed my weekend up there and I couldn't think of anything better than spending time with good friends on a deserted lake in the north country.
Looking ahead to this weekend... I have a club Tournament up on Rush Lake near Rush City, MN. I have fished the lake a couple times before and was able to prefish it two weeks ago. I'm not sure fishing it two weeks ago helped me much in establishing a pattern for this weekend, but it was good to get out on the lake to familiarize myself with it again. Not quite sure what to expect, but I have some ideas and all I can hope is that those ideas pan out...we'll see.
I'm also heading up to my cabin on Sunday. I will be up there for an entire week and I can't wait. Over the 4th the fishing can be good up there at times. Its also a good place to practice and gain confidence in new techniques mainly because its not a tournament situation and most times I have a general idea of where the fish are since I've been fishing the lake since I was in diaper.
I will try and get a quick post in on Saturday night about how the tournament went before I leave for my cabin on Sunday. Until then, boat one for me!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Recent Fishing Report
Its been awhile since my last post and I thought I'd log an entry here before I take off for my buddy's cabin in Northern Wisconsin tomorrow for a fun filled weekend. I'll be about 30 minutes from the UP of Michigan, should make for a nice relaxing time. Hopefully we'll be able to catch some muskies, smallmouth, largemouth, and possibly a couple walleye.
Since my last post I have been able to get out a couple times on some south and north metro lakes. I have found that the fish are still sort of in between all stages of the spawn here in the metro area of Minnesota. I have caught postspawn fish that are very skinny, some other postspawn fish that are getting chunky, and also a couple fish that still even have eggs in them.
Most of my success this week has come in the form of faster moving baits on offshore cover/structure, compared to the past couple weeks where I have caught them mainly on weightless plastics up shallow. "Offshore cover/structure"; by this I mean anything out away from the bank. This doesn't necessarily mean its deep water though. I have caught some fish on offshore shallow rock piles and also around weedbeds that have been offshore. However, some of the areas have also been deeper in about 10-12ft of water.
The main baits I have been using are a rapala DT3 flat, a basstrix swimbait, and an XR50 rattle trap type bait made by Xcalibur. I hope to get out tonight one last time before this weekend. I plan on slowing down on the outside weedlines to see if I can't connect with a couple more fish. If that doesn't work there is one shallow inside weedline that still might produce a few pre-spawn fish if I'm lucky, we'll see.
Hope everyone has a good weekend and lays into a few fish too! Tune in next week for a report on how my Northern Wisco weekend went (alliteration? hah).
Since my last post I have been able to get out a couple times on some south and north metro lakes. I have found that the fish are still sort of in between all stages of the spawn here in the metro area of Minnesota. I have caught postspawn fish that are very skinny, some other postspawn fish that are getting chunky, and also a couple fish that still even have eggs in them.
Most of my success this week has come in the form of faster moving baits on offshore cover/structure, compared to the past couple weeks where I have caught them mainly on weightless plastics up shallow. "Offshore cover/structure"; by this I mean anything out away from the bank. This doesn't necessarily mean its deep water though. I have caught some fish on offshore shallow rock piles and also around weedbeds that have been offshore. However, some of the areas have also been deeper in about 10-12ft of water.
The main baits I have been using are a rapala DT3 flat, a basstrix swimbait, and an XR50 rattle trap type bait made by Xcalibur. I hope to get out tonight one last time before this weekend. I plan on slowing down on the outside weedlines to see if I can't connect with a couple more fish. If that doesn't work there is one shallow inside weedline that still might produce a few pre-spawn fish if I'm lucky, we'll see.
Hope everyone has a good weekend and lays into a few fish too! Tune in next week for a report on how my Northern Wisco weekend went (alliteration? hah).
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Silverado Pro/Am - Green Lake
The site of my first Silverado tournament was on Green Lake in Spicer, MN. I was able to leave work a little early on Friday and made it to the pre-tournament meeting right at about 4pm. I was pretty excited to get out fishing the next day knowing the kind of fish that Green Lake offered. Last year I was fortunate enough to win a pro/am event on the lake with 27 some pounds for 8 fish, mostly smallmouth, which made it even better. This year went a little different.
We lanched and took off from Melvin's at 7am. I randomly drew a younger pro for this tournament who sounded like he was on some fish, so I was pumped for the day ahead. He said he had located some crusing and spawning smallmouth and that he would be sight fishing most of the day while I would be throwing faster moving baits to pick off crusing fish.
We got to the first spot in the morning and within the first 20 minutes I landed a nice 3lb smallmouth on a booyah spinnerbait. After that fish I thought it was going to be just like last year. However, it slowed down after that. I proceed to put two more fish in the boat on a spinnerbait in the morning hours, but they were much smaller fish. We ended up moving once the sun came out to another spot where my pro had found some smallmouth up shallow. When we got to the spot, there were fish everywhere! So many fish were crusing and also some on beds, but they were unbelievably spooky, which turned out to be the story of the day.
I switched to a smoke colored grub on a ballhead jig and began swimming that in the shallows and picked up another smallmouth. So now we had 4 fish in the livewell. My pro hadn't put a fish in the boat yet and I was starting to feel bad. We were definately around a lot of fish, but he couldn't get them to commit.
Eventually we moved to some small weed clumps later in the day and caught some largemouth on weightless senkos and texas rigged plastics to fill out our limit. We ended the day only culling once and had a total of 11lbs and some change which put us around the 50th spot out of 59 boats.. The winners ended up with 22lbs and many guys had 15-19lb bags. The top guys were catching them on a variety of lures, but the key for most of them was that they were targeting prespawn fish off the first deeper breakline. So we kind of missed the boat on the whole prespawn bite, but hindsight is 20/20 and that's just how it goes sometimes.
Even though we didn't finish too high in the standings, I really did have a fun time out there. My pro wasn't a slump either, he won a Denny's Event out on Lake Minnetonka a couple weeks ago, it just didn't go our way this time. It was fun fishing with him and I learned a little bit about how to go about catching spawning smallmouth, we just didn't do much catching :).
The one thing I gained from this event was motivation. Not only motivation to do well in the next tournament, but motivation to try and fish the pro side next year. This is the premier circuit in the state right now and after that tournament I'm driven to try and be able to compete with those guys next year. I'm not saying I'm going to do well if I do compete against them (they are pretty darn good!), but I'd sure love to try. The experience was really fun fishing against the best in the state of MN. The guys running the Silverado events do a great job and are truly a class act. Overall it was pretty good experience and I'm definately ready for the next one.
Fishing Report:
I have been able to get out the last two days since the tournament on some local south metro lakes and have found that the frog bite is starting to heat up. All the fish I caught on a frog except for one, were all postspawn and skinny as rails! It was still fun to get on some topwater fish though. I've also been catching some on weightless plastics in shallow water, but I believe most of the fish are out from the bank recouping right now from the spawn in the lakes I was fishing. However I did catch two big ones that were still full of eggs that had redtails (spawning fish). I definately wasn't seeing as many fish up shallow compared to a week and a half ago though. The water temp was in the low 70s.
I still believe we are about 1 to 2 weeks behind this spring compared to most springs. Most of the time the bass are just ending their spawning rituals around bass opener; at least in the south metro lakes. However, I have learned a lot about the stages of spawning fish this spring because of the colder water temps, which has been pretty cool.
I have a couple week break from tournament fishing since I won't be at the next club event this upcoming weekend. I'll also be in Northern Wisconsin chasing some muskies, walleye, and smallmouth in about 2 weeks which should be a good time. Hopefully I'll get some fishing reports from around the metro on the blog before I leave for that trip. Thanks for reading!!
We lanched and took off from Melvin's at 7am. I randomly drew a younger pro for this tournament who sounded like he was on some fish, so I was pumped for the day ahead. He said he had located some crusing and spawning smallmouth and that he would be sight fishing most of the day while I would be throwing faster moving baits to pick off crusing fish.
We got to the first spot in the morning and within the first 20 minutes I landed a nice 3lb smallmouth on a booyah spinnerbait. After that fish I thought it was going to be just like last year. However, it slowed down after that. I proceed to put two more fish in the boat on a spinnerbait in the morning hours, but they were much smaller fish. We ended up moving once the sun came out to another spot where my pro had found some smallmouth up shallow. When we got to the spot, there were fish everywhere! So many fish were crusing and also some on beds, but they were unbelievably spooky, which turned out to be the story of the day.
I switched to a smoke colored grub on a ballhead jig and began swimming that in the shallows and picked up another smallmouth. So now we had 4 fish in the livewell. My pro hadn't put a fish in the boat yet and I was starting to feel bad. We were definately around a lot of fish, but he couldn't get them to commit.
Eventually we moved to some small weed clumps later in the day and caught some largemouth on weightless senkos and texas rigged plastics to fill out our limit. We ended the day only culling once and had a total of 11lbs and some change which put us around the 50th spot out of 59 boats.. The winners ended up with 22lbs and many guys had 15-19lb bags. The top guys were catching them on a variety of lures, but the key for most of them was that they were targeting prespawn fish off the first deeper breakline. So we kind of missed the boat on the whole prespawn bite, but hindsight is 20/20 and that's just how it goes sometimes.
Even though we didn't finish too high in the standings, I really did have a fun time out there. My pro wasn't a slump either, he won a Denny's Event out on Lake Minnetonka a couple weeks ago, it just didn't go our way this time. It was fun fishing with him and I learned a little bit about how to go about catching spawning smallmouth, we just didn't do much catching :).
The one thing I gained from this event was motivation. Not only motivation to do well in the next tournament, but motivation to try and fish the pro side next year. This is the premier circuit in the state right now and after that tournament I'm driven to try and be able to compete with those guys next year. I'm not saying I'm going to do well if I do compete against them (they are pretty darn good!), but I'd sure love to try. The experience was really fun fishing against the best in the state of MN. The guys running the Silverado events do a great job and are truly a class act. Overall it was pretty good experience and I'm definately ready for the next one.
Fishing Report:
I have been able to get out the last two days since the tournament on some local south metro lakes and have found that the frog bite is starting to heat up. All the fish I caught on a frog except for one, were all postspawn and skinny as rails! It was still fun to get on some topwater fish though. I've also been catching some on weightless plastics in shallow water, but I believe most of the fish are out from the bank recouping right now from the spawn in the lakes I was fishing. However I did catch two big ones that were still full of eggs that had redtails (spawning fish). I definately wasn't seeing as many fish up shallow compared to a week and a half ago though. The water temp was in the low 70s.
I still believe we are about 1 to 2 weeks behind this spring compared to most springs. Most of the time the bass are just ending their spawning rituals around bass opener; at least in the south metro lakes. However, I have learned a lot about the stages of spawning fish this spring because of the colder water temps, which has been pretty cool.
I have a couple week break from tournament fishing since I won't be at the next club event this upcoming weekend. I'll also be in Northern Wisconsin chasing some muskies, walleye, and smallmouth in about 2 weeks which should be a good time. Hopefully I'll get some fishing reports from around the metro on the blog before I leave for that trip. Thanks for reading!!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Lake Minnetonka - Tournament Day
My second club tournament of the year took place on the famed Lake Minnetonka. Going into the tournament I expected it to be fairly tough considering our tournament was the day after the Minnetonka Classic boasting a 100+ boat field. My goal was to get at least 10lbs to keep me in contention for angler of the year. After looking at past years results, if you can average 10lbs a tournament you have a pretty good shot at winning AOY.
We launched at 6am out of Maxwell Bay and I first headed into North Arm to begin to the day. In practice the week before I had found fish crusing the inside weedlines and this is where I began the day. I was throwing a 4 inch zoom centipede in a pumpkin color on 6lb flourocarbon. I expected that the fish would be a little skittish after the big tournament on Saturday so I downsized both my line and lure.
By 8:05 I had finished out my limit using the centipede. It wasn't anything special though, maybe 8lbs. I was making the longest casts possible along the inside edge of the weedline to make sure I wasn't spooking the fish by having them seeing me. And beleive me, I saw a lot of fish crusing, and a lot of fish that wounldn't bite because they also saw me. I continued to work down the bank and kept upgrading little by little throughout the day.
I wasn't doing anything real special or out of the ordinary. The keys were making sure the fish didn't see you and I also think the slow fall of the centipede in the shallow water also helped. It was a typical spring inside weedline type pattern. I was seeing a few fish that were spawning, but once again I couldn't get them to bite because they saw me too. I did find a few areas that seemed to have some better fish that were crusing a little deeper than the rest of the smaller fish. On one point I saw many 3-4lb fish a little deeper. I backed off and let the area rest for a little bit then came back with a long cast about 15 minutes later. I had one pick up the centipede right away and on the hook set I snapped my line at the knot. That one hurt. But I guess you can expect that to happen at least once with 6lb line and a hard hokk set. I could never get another bite off that point.
After fishing the inside weedlines for almost the entire day, I decided to move to a shallow flat that had sparse lilypads scattered throughout the entire area, this was in Maxwell Bay. At this point I had just about 10lbs and was looking to upgrade so I threw a 5" All Terrain stick worm in hoping that the bigger profile would entice some bigger bites. In the last hour of the day I was able to cull three more times and upgraded my final weight. This was an excited little hour of fishing, nothing like catching them pretty good with the countless floatillas of Lake Minnetonka all around you. That lake can be flat out awesome in the morning, but after everyone gets out of church on Sunday, I'd rather be any other place than at a crowded boat lauch waiting 30 minutes to put my boat on the trailer. Hah, I guess thats just how it is though.
My final weight for the day was 12lbs 13oz which for Minnetonka, isn't too much. But I was happy with it. It was good enough to put me in 2nd place for the day, and I'll take that whenever I can. I had a goal set in mind going into the tournament and fullfilled it. After a 1st place on the St.Croix River last fall and now two 2nd place finishes so far this year in the club, I feel that I'm continuing where I left from last year. It stinks losing by 1 ounce in the first tournament and now by 7 ounces in this last tournament, but thats how it goes sometimes. Who knows whether that fish that I snapped would have put me over the top. All in all it was a beautiful day on the water and it sure beat anything I could have been doing.
Gear used
Centipede: 6'6" St.Croix Avid Rod (Spinning), Diawa Regal Reel, 6lb Berkely 100% flourocarbon, Gamakatsu 3/0 light wire EWG hook, 4" zoom centipede (pumpkin)
A.T. stick worm: 7' St.Croix Avid Rod (Spinning), Shimano Sahara Reel, 6lb Berkely 100% Flourocarbon, Gamakatsu 4/0 red EWG hook, 5" A.T. stick worm (blue/blk swirl)
Centipede Picture:
Side note: I have my first Silverado Pro-Am tournament next weekend on Green Lake in Spicer, MN. We will most likely be chasing smallies as well as possibly a couple largemouth. I'm really looking forward to this tournament. Check back next week for a report on how it went.
Quick Report: I got out to a south metro lake yesterday evening and there were still some fish shallow. Lots of empty beds though, and many sunfish that had begun spawning. Caught most
of my fish on an A.T. stick worm weightless. Water temps were 66-71 depending on where you were on the lake. Not too many big ones, but enough to be a fun evening of fishing.
We launched at 6am out of Maxwell Bay and I first headed into North Arm to begin to the day. In practice the week before I had found fish crusing the inside weedlines and this is where I began the day. I was throwing a 4 inch zoom centipede in a pumpkin color on 6lb flourocarbon. I expected that the fish would be a little skittish after the big tournament on Saturday so I downsized both my line and lure.
By 8:05 I had finished out my limit using the centipede. It wasn't anything special though, maybe 8lbs. I was making the longest casts possible along the inside edge of the weedline to make sure I wasn't spooking the fish by having them seeing me. And beleive me, I saw a lot of fish crusing, and a lot of fish that wounldn't bite because they also saw me. I continued to work down the bank and kept upgrading little by little throughout the day.
I wasn't doing anything real special or out of the ordinary. The keys were making sure the fish didn't see you and I also think the slow fall of the centipede in the shallow water also helped. It was a typical spring inside weedline type pattern. I was seeing a few fish that were spawning, but once again I couldn't get them to bite because they saw me too. I did find a few areas that seemed to have some better fish that were crusing a little deeper than the rest of the smaller fish. On one point I saw many 3-4lb fish a little deeper. I backed off and let the area rest for a little bit then came back with a long cast about 15 minutes later. I had one pick up the centipede right away and on the hook set I snapped my line at the knot. That one hurt. But I guess you can expect that to happen at least once with 6lb line and a hard hokk set. I could never get another bite off that point.
After fishing the inside weedlines for almost the entire day, I decided to move to a shallow flat that had sparse lilypads scattered throughout the entire area, this was in Maxwell Bay. At this point I had just about 10lbs and was looking to upgrade so I threw a 5" All Terrain stick worm in hoping that the bigger profile would entice some bigger bites. In the last hour of the day I was able to cull three more times and upgraded my final weight. This was an excited little hour of fishing, nothing like catching them pretty good with the countless floatillas of Lake Minnetonka all around you. That lake can be flat out awesome in the morning, but after everyone gets out of church on Sunday, I'd rather be any other place than at a crowded boat lauch waiting 30 minutes to put my boat on the trailer. Hah, I guess thats just how it is though.
My final weight for the day was 12lbs 13oz which for Minnetonka, isn't too much. But I was happy with it. It was good enough to put me in 2nd place for the day, and I'll take that whenever I can. I had a goal set in mind going into the tournament and fullfilled it. After a 1st place on the St.Croix River last fall and now two 2nd place finishes so far this year in the club, I feel that I'm continuing where I left from last year. It stinks losing by 1 ounce in the first tournament and now by 7 ounces in this last tournament, but thats how it goes sometimes. Who knows whether that fish that I snapped would have put me over the top. All in all it was a beautiful day on the water and it sure beat anything I could have been doing.
Gear used
Centipede: 6'6" St.Croix Avid Rod (Spinning), Diawa Regal Reel, 6lb Berkely 100% flourocarbon, Gamakatsu 3/0 light wire EWG hook, 4" zoom centipede (pumpkin)
A.T. stick worm: 7' St.Croix Avid Rod (Spinning), Shimano Sahara Reel, 6lb Berkely 100% Flourocarbon, Gamakatsu 4/0 red EWG hook, 5" A.T. stick worm (blue/blk swirl)
Centipede Picture:
Side note: I have my first Silverado Pro-Am tournament next weekend on Green Lake in Spicer, MN. We will most likely be chasing smallies as well as possibly a couple largemouth. I'm really looking forward to this tournament. Check back next week for a report on how it went.
Quick Report: I got out to a south metro lake yesterday evening and there were still some fish shallow. Lots of empty beds though, and many sunfish that had begun spawning. Caught most
of my fish on an A.T. stick worm weightless. Water temps were 66-71 depending on where you were on the lake. Not too many big ones, but enough to be a fun evening of fishing.
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