Saturday I guided out on the chip, We fished on the west side, started out casting Reef Runner ripsticks, over the weed tops in about 8-10 feet of water with thick weeds, we caught a pile of fish, a little bit of everything, caught largemouth bass up to about 4 1/2-5 pounds, pike up to 36 inches, crappie, perch, walleye, all but one over 20 inches.
We would cast stickbaits until we caught fish, and then slip bobber the area, didn’t matter if we caught bass, pike or walleye, got about half of our walleye on slip bobbers with minnows, and the other half on stickbaits. the reason for that was if the bass or pike were active the walleye would be too, and more cases than not it was true.
Caught all of our fish while it was snowing out in the morning, when the snow stopped, the fish stopped. seems like for me when you have overcast and wind I would rather fish the shallow weeds and cover water with the stickbaits, its where you will find the bigger fish, and that is when they are the most active.
water temp was 50-52 degrees. the fishing on the chip this year so far has been feast or famine, Saturday was a feast, great fishing!!Hope this helps everybody out.
Nice report and some snice fish Tanner sounds like you had a great time in the nasty weather.
How is the water level on the Chip this year? Heard someone mention it was down about 2 feet from normal for this time of the year.
Great report
Sounds like a good day of fishing Tanner.
the water level on the chip is about 2 feet low right now.
Tanner
Great read and pics
Nice to see the variety of quality fish
I fished the flowage from opener through Mother’s Day. The water level is down about 2 foot.
I only fish for walleyes and the action was great all day long. Lots of folks complaining about not finding any fish or that it was slow. Then I saw that they stayed in the same spots all day and never changed their approach or presentations.
We fished deep the whole time. in 18 to 25 foot of water. We had several eye’s in the 18 to 22 inch range. However, we also caught 15 10″ fish for every fish over 14″. Lots of small eye’s.
On Friday, we had 2″ of snow, hail, sleet, rain, 27 mph winds and the fishing was great.
The R&R was open for breakfast and the food was great. Jeff is still the best cook on the lake.
Fished the Treelands Challenge on Mothers day weekend. filled out my 6 fish however nothin too big.
One of the guys in our group won the 4 wheeler Grand door prize.
I have been fishing the Flowage for many years now. If you folks would like some info on it, i will gladly share it.
Good luck!!