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Anyone fish Pomme De Terre by Elbow Lake on the opener? I haven't fished it for a couple of years and I'm wondering if there's still a Walleye bite there early in the year.

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Ok, nobody fished it on opener. Has anyone fished it in the last couple of years? It used to yield some major league crappies and good walleyes through about memorial day. After the 1st week of June or so, the fishing gets a bit tougher due to the heavy weed growth and the lake's shallowness. The Bass fishing on the Bass opener used to be good too.

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snagged again i havent been up there yet this year. my wifes family owns the old cabin on the north end of the lake near the river inlet. my brotherinlaw was up there this weekend but i havent talked to him yet. its been my experiance to that this is a early lake i dont know where they go in the summer proably right in to the weeds which makes it tough because the whole lake tends to get alot of weeds without any definate drop offs to concentrate on. the drop offs that are in the lake dont seem to produce for me later in the year anyway.i might get to sneek up there next weekend for a day or to and i will let you know what i get. my brotherinlaw will be there next weekend for sure with my son so i might be able to pry some information out of them if i dont get up. good fishing.

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swampman, I think I remember which cabin it is that your wife's family owns. My dad used to own a cabin that was next to the old Derby's resort. You're right, the weeds are really tough on the lake, and the fishing becomes very difficult in the summer. The walleyes are tough even in the fall for some reason. The best way I found to catch walleyes in the summer was to slowly long line troll a floating rapala just beneath the surface at night. That method worked well enough to catch a 6 1/2 pounder there one summer. I may give it a go over memorial day weekend. If I do, I'll let you know how I did.

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Swampman, Fished Pomme De Terre for 3 hours on Sunday. Only caught 1 walleye and a bunch of small Northerns. Had we stayed there a few more hours, we would have probably piced up a couple more walleyes. Weeds aren't bad yet, and the water level is good.

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SNAGGED AGAIN i didnt get up this weekend but there was 4 guys up at the cabin this weekend and they caught about 12 walleyes one about 8 pounds if you are going up in the near future i can tell you were they caught them if you want to give me your e mail address but this spot wont last much longer.

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Swampman, Sounds like they did pretty well. An 8 pounder is mighty impressive! I would be interested to hear where they caught them. My email address is [email protected]. I fished some of the old haunts I remembered from years ago. The spot I was really hopeful about was an area just out from the boat launch on the west side towards the north end of the lake. There's sort of a groove in the bottom running parallel to shore thats about 12 feet deep. We used to catch some nice walleyes there, including a bunch one winter. Didn't get so much as a bite there.
The walleye we did catch was off the point just across the lake from the old resort. Sort of southeast of the old resort. There's a big home on that point and a nice cabin down near the water.

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