Anyone Night Fishing, Pulling Cranks?

Looks like it has been 10 days since anyone has posted anything about the “Pond”! Is there that many tourny’s happening, or is the lake that “turned off”? Mainly wondering if anyone has been pulling cranks after dark. Was thinking of heading up for the Labor Day weekend to do just that. I know that I will be there for sure at the end of Sept.

The reports I got over this last weekend were “Off”. At least on the east side where the wind has everthing pretty stirred up. I friend of mine who is a pretty good night troller was out Friday night from 11pm till 5am and zeroed.

Next weekend should be better with the full moon on Monday. I plan to hit it then.

-J.

Ditto.

I was at Hunter’s on Saturday getting my shack ready for hard water and talked to a few folks at the saloon. No one had been having much luck with the eyes. Smallie and perch bite was reported as marginal to good.

JJ

The smallie bite went from good (for us) on Thursday, slowed some on Friday after the first cold night and got down right tough on saturday and Sunday. The wind was relentless and just got down right OLD. I would have said a thank you for those same conditions if we were after the walleyes but casting light weight plastics in 2′ – 3′ waves for 3 days saps anyone’s patience. We could not put together a crank bait bite for these smallies which would have made life so much easier given the conditions. We did talk to and see some people getting in some decent walleye action trolling cranks in 12′ – 14′ of water and we caught a couple walleyes pitching plastics for the bass. Decent numbers of walleyes came from the Rocky Reef area and from the Twin Islands area. Tuck put together a decent bunch of walleyes and big perch pulling jointeds north of Hunters. His boat also stuck a 25′ walleye on a ringworm while fishing for bass.

Muskie action was on FIRE on the north end. We stopped in to Cataways for a burger and talked with a guy that had pictures of his last 2 days on the lake. 10 legal ‘skis on Saturday, 3 on Sunday including a very huge and very DEAD 54″ beast that thay paraded around the restaurant for 45 minutes. All caught trolling big plugs.

…did I mention that I didn’t talk with any of James’ buddies?

I shoulda skipped putting a new roof on the shack and been out pullin big plugs.

Thanks for the update J!

JJ

James or anyone else @ the Get Togther, happen to get a water temp. reading this weekend? Thanks in advance!

The temps were 64-67 degrees during the day.