07-06-2023, 01:09 PM
(07-06-2023, 11:53 AM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: When I was there last week, I reported the water was 65 degrees. I was fishing for smallies, which were willing to play on ned rigs in 15' of water. I had two large fish hit but got off because I thought they were yet another small limb - which absolutely pave the bottom - and I pulled rather than set the hook. The brief fight felt like decent walleye.
What debris isn't floating next to the banks has sunk. Dragging any lure near the bottom will catch one after the other. It looks like brush piles on sonar in many places.
Still only one narrow ramp, no boat prep area, and no fish cleaning station. I like Echo, but it seems they did a half job.
Water temp around 6:30 am was a little below 68 degrees but before we left a little after 12:30 it was over 72. After your report last week, we did not even try anything close to shore but even in 20 to 30 FOW we found the same conditions of catching one tree limb after another while bottom bouncing with worm harnesses.
While we were there we did not have any issues finding a place to prep the boat to launch or take back on the road. We did see one area where it looked like the might be going to install a fish cleaning station but it was nothing more than a drain and electrical wires sticking up out of the ground. We did ask about the price of the newly installed cabins, $200 a night and they sleep 8.