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Nelson Lake report! Heating up! - Bassmaster-ND - 05-24-2007
Hey guys!
Hit Nelson yesterday. Got there at about 11:30 and the conditions were great. I thought it would be really windy but was suprised how it wasnt! The water is really high too. I dont think I've ever seen it this high before, but I dont fish here very much in the summer. Here's some pictures of the north boat ramp!
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I started fishing that north east bay and caught about 9 bass. Pretty much all of them were smaller. Caught them on a straight tail plastic worm. Here's one of them.
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The fish were holding right round the edge of the cattails..
here's some more.
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Then the bad weather started!! Rain came off and on and when it did rain it rained pretty hard. I switched sides and went south of the discharge.
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The bass were in about 2-3 feet of water and about 4 feet from the bank.
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This was probably the longest fish of the day.^^
Ugliest bass I've ever seen. haha.
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The wind started to pick up more so I called it a day.
I ended up with 23 bass. Caught them on jigs, worms and cranks.
The water is like a hot tub. By the boat ramp area it was about 83 and by the discharge it was 89!!!!! South of that it started to cool down into the 76s.
I want to fish deeper water because it seemed like all the smaller fish were up shallow but the wind kept me from going into deeper water.
Tight Lines!
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Re: [Bassmaster-ND] Nelson Lake report! Heating up! - TooPureToDie - 05-29-2007
i've been thinking that we need to head out there one these mornings really early and fish by all those rocks and find drop offs. i want to try the shakey worm!! and catch me the new record[
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