Well, after a few weeks of no fishing, due to vacation, work schedule, weather etc., made it back out to Pine lake yesterday, and am happy to report that there are signs of life on this body of water. Last trip was in late May, and there was next to nothing as far as weed growth, and the fishing was slow. But the weeds are there now, albeit not yet in full growth, and the fish are easing into the normal late spring/early summer patterns, with water temps at 69 to 70 throughout the lake. Still no-wake, which kept boat traffic way down. Only 4 trailers in the lot when we launched at 3:30.
Started the afternoon lindy rigging suckers, finding that the most active depths were in the 18 to 25 ft. range. Boated 6 bass, both smallies and LM, and a few pike, with biggest at 32 inches. Also lost 5 or 6 fish before we could see them, plus 2 bite-offs.
About 7 pm, switched over to jigging for walleye, plus throwing plastics into the weeds and rocky shallows till dark, and an hour or so into dark. Picked up a few more bass, but no eyes on this trip. Was going to do some scouting on this trip, but forgot to bring the spotlight 
, so we called it day and pulled off about 10pm.
Water was the highest I’ve ever seen it on this lake, with a few piers under water, and water a bit murkier than usual. With many other are lakes closed to boat traffic period, was surprised that this one wasn’t being fished more heavily.
June 18, 2008 at 1:36 pm
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