I installed a Garmen 93SI fishfinder on my boat and was itching to try it out and after looking at the wind forcast for Sunday, Jordanelle seemed like the best bet, with light winds forcast in the morning. Elayo joined me and we launched at first light and headed for the dam where we fished for several hours and didn’t hook up. We where targeting the top of the water colum with the usual Kokanee set ups. We didn’t mark any fish up high but we did mark a bunch along the face of the dam between 100’ and 200’ so we droped down to the fish at 100’ but they where not interested. We then decided to take a boat ride around the lake, since neither of us had been there before, we went all the way up the arm near the dam to where the ice sheet ended at the no wake buoy line, we turned around and headed up past the launch ramp to the other end of the lake and started fishing back towards the launch ramp.We finally got a fish on and as I was reeling it in, Shawn says look at that other fish jumping it’s following yours, when I said no that ones on the other side he picked it up and we got a double. I turned around and we went back through and picked up another as the wind was building, which made boat control difficult leading to more tangled lines with the long set backs. We caught our fish at 8-10ft down with 100ft. set backs on on RMT sling blades and pink hoochies tipped with power maggots. Being the first trip of the year I forgot a few things like my net and parks pass. The fish finder worked great and is a major up grade for me, I really like the larger screen. We talked to a couple other guys at the ramp that also caught 3 at 12ft. Overall not to bad of a shakedown trip, I wish we would have gotten into a few more fish.
Great success for so early in the season! Looks like the new fish finder may prove to be a good investment. 
Yes, there is a wedge dock in and yes we found them north of the ramp between a line of 3 buoys on the west shore and a drift wood T-pee on the east bank looking at your map it was the area east of the next large point north of the ramp.
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thanks
think I may go up Tue. rain later and 10 to 15 mph wind
do they have a boat dock there are do you have to get wet
I must be getting old but can’t tell where you were catching them
were you way north and going south to the boat ramp.
this is the only place I have fished for them
this garmin livescope I have I can see fish in the top 20 feet of water. in one view it will not show how deep they are put in another view it will show how deep they are but it only has a 20 deg cone so it is not to wide
When I first started to read this post, I thought it was from last Sat but when I read the part about the Army vet, I thought, this must be older than that, so I looked at the date and it was last month. The main page sure list more post on each page than the old site. How big was the eye that you released?
About 12 inches
Got out to WB south and on the water by 7:30 Saturday. Still no trouble getting in, at that time anyway.
A bit warmer than day before, a medium chop on the water, and numerous pleasure boats (their pleasure, not mine) already out and churning the water. 10 or 12 walleye hunters already doing their ring-around-the- island… :rolleyes:
2 hours of various loop and S turns, varied speeds, using new lure # 3, boated a small size walleye. CPR
2 more hours, power boat chop getting worse, and closer. Decided to call it quits. Headed back to marina where it took an hour to get off water and road ready to leave. Just as I was about ready to climb in m y truck, Army vet came up and asked if I had jumper cables. I do. So he got his boat backed up to front of my truck. Battery jump was of no help.
Being a old, long time aircraft electrician, and a vet myself, helped him diagnose his problem. Circuits from batteries to breakers good, but no juice in either battery. 2 DEAD batteries. Someone left the boat radio on from the week before when it was de-winterized. Sorry buddy, couldn’t be of more help.
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Going out the pay shack gate, traffic backed up all the way to the baffles, around the corner and half way to entrance road. Whew, sure glad I wasn’t going in. :s
Being retired now, I can make my trips to wherever, during the week. Maybe a little less traffic.