](IMG 3080 — Postimages) Funny story today While looking for active fish my line released of the board and new I had a fish but felt very heavy, got the fish to within 20yds of the boat and saw it was a cat plus and extra line. Reeled in until we could reach the crank that was tangled and realized it was the one on the rod I reeled in, got it out and dropped the line back into the water and grabbed my rod next to to reel the cat in. Could fell the fish but at about the same spot I noticed another crank in the line so figured Dave’s gear was in it, but no it’s my crank again. Dave gets my crank out and almost hand lined the cat in but decided t.hat he would just reel in the fish on his pole, grabs and starts reeling and no fish so he figured it was his outside rod, grabbed that rod and he could tell there was a fish but he thought it was a bit light for the cat, gets it in and it’s a walleye. So apparently somebody probably lost the cat and the pole it was attached to and it snagged on both of my poles which is why it was so heavy, if we would of hand lined the fish in we know for sure.
Yea I noticed shad schools in quite a few spots also. Glad I could get the leaders to you, maybe you’ll need 1 or 2 before it gets really slow
I guess no use for a new thread on this, as me and a buddy were out there floating around just like everyone else today..Unlike most of you though, this was my boat’s first trip here this season, so it pains me to hear you say the best may be over..I guess I should have launched at the So. marina, as that’s about where we headed to from the No. marina..so we were fishing by 0730, hooking up about 15 mins later..We did best til about 1000, then 2 larger cats in the NW corner about 1100, then slowly headed back out to the “Openness”, and from there and back to the No. marina we had 3 more good hookups…4 average walleyes, 2 large cats, 4 large perch, and 2 smallish wipers were our take..1 very small wiper netted and released, 2 very large walleye missed the net right at the boat..our planer boards worked for 4 fish, but bottom bouncers were best for us, catching 9 and missing a few others…bugs were treacherous, but a very good fishing day…
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](GOT MINE — Postimages) ** Maybe you found a warmer spot of water in the east end, a little shallower water. About 11 o’clock I boated over to the feed lot and no one was there. Did see lots of shade balls. Thought I might find you but no. [/quote]
](20230616 104334 — Postimages) Just captured 3 perch. And a zillion midges.
I fished from about 2:45 until 8:45. I was seeing water temps of 67, even below later in the day. Very few shad schools IMO, lots of fish orienting to the bottom. Released 2 small walleye, hooked 3 wipers, one long line release, bumped a nice one off with my net, kept one decent one and a perch. My last fish hit an SR5 running at 8’ in 23’ of water, thought it was another wiper but instead it was a 24" cat.
Thinking I may need to use my downriggers given what I saw and caught. One year down at Yuba a couple of locals were using lead core to get small cranks deep enough to reach the fish. They were hammering big walleye, rumor has it they were taking a limit home and returning later in the day for another.
I’m thinking it will go longer, at least three more weeks. Which is a good thing given the fairly dismal kokanee reports.
That will happen at times even if you do cut off that part of the crawler that hangs way too far beyond the hook. We lose fish like that on every trip and sometime it happens even on a lure. Sometimes eyes just don’t comment and take the whole thing, different from the wipers, they usually get hooked every time because they are more aggressive, IMO. Those smaller wipers are likely the ones that were planted last year after the DWR heard complaints about there not being as many wipers in there. Wipers are so bony that you don’t get much meat off a 12 incher, IMO they need to be 15 to 18 inches before you get much meat off them.