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I think thats my destination for saturday morning. hop around there for awhile. i havent heard much about it though.

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duno. i have around 300 in my fridge yet, but i havent looked at them for a week and a half so i dont know what kind of shape they are in ! haha, i also have minnows, but nothing biger than a fathead, i'd like to throw a tip-up down for pike, i need to find bigger minnows

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yup. was reclaimed/re-stocked a few years back.

Im gonna head there sat morning, hole hop and put a tip-up down

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I talked to 3 guys that fished there all day on wed and caught 1 fish and seen almost nothing, so its probally a dead sea.

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where were they fishing and what were they using? there is fish to be caught there, you just thave to work for them.

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I know the lake was churning out gills like mad a week or two ago, but talked to 3 guys who fished it yesterday and it was fairly slow.

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thats the same report i heard, biting right up until it got cold the middle of this week. maybe the warmer temps this weekend will get them biting again

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ryan84 i lost your e-mail address. if you're interested in fishin tomorrow shoot me an e-mail :

rothmeier_10 at hotmail dot com

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fished it saturday morning-early afternoon. Moved around alot, close to the crowd, away from the crowd. Didnt catch a thing. Saw 3 bullheads on the camera. Was anyone else down there this weekend?

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We put a lot of time in on sunday and pretty much just got tried of drilling holes and saw very few fish and caught a lot less then we saw, guess its time to look for another spot.

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Well I was going to give my 2 cents but I was with mnhunter2 so basically what he said...drilled lots of holes and saw lots more fish than we caught.

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I don't think the spot is the problem. They are very finicky during the day light hours. It's mainly a night bite guys.

I seen 30 very nice crappies caught over the weekend and many thrown back. The bluegills were slower, but still caught some.

If you don't own a vex or marcum, it's going to be tough.

Once the water gets a little cloudy with some run off, I think they will pick up again during the day.

Just a FYI if you're interested.

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We got there Sat night at like 7 and fished slept in the house and fished all day sunday and we moved around ALOT!!! We both have Marcums and one camera and they just weren't there and when they were they had lock jaw...dead sea in my opinion

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