08-11-2003, 05:23 AM
Launched at the north marina between 5:30 and 6pm, water did not even float the boat off the trailer(16.5ft alum) but with a tilt trailer that's no problem. Water was less than one foot in some areas until 10 or 15 ft before the channel opens up into the lake. We got on the boat and about 10 feet past the buoy we were able to put the trolling motor down, water temp was 87 degrees. There are three small islands on the right and one one the left as you go straight out into the lake, after two hundreds or so it is clear sailing. We went four hundred yards and caught our first wiper, so we continued until we were 75 yds from the north dike and in 11 foot of water. We went in another 25 yds and at 8ft of water we caught another wiper, we were marking a lot of fish so we kept heading west toward the light pole. After a mile or so I caught a small cat and that was when the wind came up. We turned around and headed back toward the north marina, in the same spot that we caught the second wiper we landed our third and final wiper of the evening. Birds were diving in the area and we caught the second wiper by a pair of snowy egrets, if the wind had not come up I think we would have seen more surface activity. We used the tilt feature again as we loaded the boat but it would have been nice to have an electric winch to pull the boat up the trailer. All in all a nice evening on the bay. The guy at the pay station said they were getting the permits that are needed to dredge the north marina. The way he talked, it sounded like the south marina was a lost cause, oh well, at least they are going to do something with the north marina. Hey Fishcrazy, how did you do? WH2
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