Pelican?

[Lobina_Mosca]

I'm thinking about heading to Pelican this Saturday. How are the bluegill biting these days? What are some good lures/methods for a spin fisherman there?
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[Rapo]

Haven't been to Pelican this year yet, but understand there is good fishing for bluegills around the reeds. Small top water "poppers" and small jigs dressed with worms should work. Good Luck []

Sandy in Vernal
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[fonduvfishin]

Micro-tubejigs, crawlers, small spinners, these are big gills so they will take most traditional panfish offerings in larger sizes, plus you increase your odds of hooking into some nice largemouth. Good luck out there, it can be a blast on ultralight tackle.
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[Troll]

Last I heard from Pelican was that it was heating up. Blues are moving in and bass are active in the deeper water.
For lures or methods, Position your boat or toon (wading from shore is not easy) out from the reeds about 20 feet and just cast into the pockets of no reeds. Every so often turn and cast deeper for the bass. If you have a boat with a motor you can troll along the channel and catch bass.
Flys of all types, buggy looking, sinking or floating.
Bait, 1/3 crawler on a long shank #6 hook. Either no weight at all or under a small bobber.
My favorite is small crankbaits. Real small Fat raps in shallow and diving. I can just turn and throw the same bait for bass.
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[leaky]

This was my report back then. Good luck.
Leaky
[font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][size 1] Pelican 5/25-5/26 [/size][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_edit;post=203604"][#000000]Edit[/#000000][/url] | [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_reply_write;quote=1;parent_post_id=203604"][#000000]Quote[/#000000][/url] | [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_reply_write;parent_post_id=203604"][#000000] Reply[/#000000][/url] [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][size 1] Took Kayote's suggestion and went to Pelican. This is what I think I learned. Water is high and flooding shore stuff. Water temp. unknown since I didn't use my fish finder, but best guess is it felt like in the sixties. Daytime temp. high 70's to mid 80's with night temp. at about mid 40's. Fish are shallow. Bugs weren't bad but the mosquioes are starting to come on. My best luck was to find open areas amongst the reeds wading, but got difficult in deeper water. Float tube is difficult to get through the reeds to fish. Blues appear to spawning with some very big blues over nests. Leave em be. Pick the others, there are plenty. Shallow drift boats, cannoes, pontoons, etc. would probably be good but you've got to sneak up to the bass because they spook easy. There are some big bass in there! Lure of choice, for me, was a small pearl curly tail, but there's probably lots of others that would work well. Evening fishing is great but you can catch em anytime. Bass are more selective. Since the water is high and flooding the "stuff", you've got to get in the "stuff" to it to find em. Also, the bigger guys have a habit of going into the reeds and stripping off the lure on the reeds. All in all, I caught plenty of fish (blues and bass) and wore Sparky out.
Most interesting experience - found an egg that measure over 3 1/2 in., tip to tip, off the lake about 75 yds. What laid it?[shocked]
Most dissappointing - I got tired and couldn't fish like I wanted. Getting too old!![unsure] S**t!!!!!
Kayote - thanks for the help. Are you going to try the other area I told ya about at the other side of the state? [sly]
Leaky

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