Eastern Nebraska Gills Going

Just thought I’d give guys a heads up the gills have been going pretty good, and some bass too. Even if I do have to catch them one-armed lately

I’ve fished some various public and private waters in Cuming County and contiguous counties. These are small waters so I’m not going to name them publicly.

Seems like the best thing on all of them has been about 16-18′ or wherever the last break is into a lake basin using very small jigs like Diamond Jigs in #16. I usually just thread on one spike onto the hook but have been experimenting with Gulp! small nightcrawlers due to a friends success. At times they are hot hot hot! BETTER than spikes or waxies. A real good way to do it is a small piece of the Gulp! and a spike to boot.

Best bite has been 7:30 – 9 AM and sunset. I’ve found more fish in weeds and timber but not as many biters. It seems the fish in the basins are there to eat. By that I mean there are times where you will catch almost every single fish you mark. That’s exciting!

Another thing is spring bobbers. I used to never bother with them and I wouldn’t even think of fishing for panfish without them anymore.

Here comes the storm…

Thanks for the update Todd! This storm is going to make things interesting this weekend.

Ben,

They weren’t as plentiful this AM compared to yesterday but still good fishing. I and my buddy think they are heading to the basin and/or thick cover.

Another wild card is the lakes on drainages are getting a tremendous amount of runoff too right now. I think in stable weather some of the fish would be running up into that possibly.

I can also say one thing. The Neb Aquatic Stamp program is just fantastic. They have really turned around some lakes!!! Kudos.

So that is where the money is going, eastern NE

Neb GP Aquatic Program Overviews

I will COMPLIMENT the Neb GP for creating and pushing for this project. Nebraska lakes were and are in terrible need of refurbishment. While everyone’s lake has not been “gotten to” at least some have!

I’ll bet half the people who gripe when they pay for the stamp are griping while fishing one of the refurbed lakes!

I think their list OVERALL is pretty darn impressive. Click some of the links and see how dramatic some of the turnarounds have been.

I don’t have time to run math for you but they’ve spent about 2.2 million in NE Nebraska TOTAL and 1.6 on Lake Ogallala alone.

Of course, the population density/water acres is the same too…

That was supposed to be funny, sorry

Did you guys down at Elwood, a “trophy lake”, see the humor