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jay83196

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Not much new info on here, has the lake not getting fished as much the fishing that bad...all of the above? Just seems like past years there has been a lot more discussions on here about the lake. I'm heading up in a week any insights, shallow, minnows etc? (Besides stay home lol)

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Traffic on the lake is way, way, way down...Probably about half of what it used to be. Pair that with slowish fishing until the water gets a little warmer. That's my guess, anyways.

OR maybe people are slamming the huge 'eyes and just don't want to share their secrets. wink

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Six guys spent the better part of Thursday thru Sunday with 12 walleyes to show 5 keepers.

The boat traffic is way down.

With a bizzion little perch out there and water temps what they are it's going to be a couple of weeks before things get going.

I heard Hunters tournament had less then a third of the boats they had last year.

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Kinda figured but the same was said last year minus the water Temps (late spring this year) just seemed odd so much less chatter on here. Maybe good thing for lake less pressure for a few years. Sucks for resorts, although I made reservation at one and was pretty booked up this summer.

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The report I got this weekend was lindy rigging shiners in 20-25' on the North End. Leeches didn't produce anything for this group. Mostly bigger fish with a 12"er and 14"er also nothing in the slot.

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I took a couple hours off from smallie fishing on Thursday and did well on eyes. Ended up with 7 and missed a few others in probably less then 2 hours of fishing. All fish were caught in less then 7ft of water next to weeds.

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We had 5 guys fish this past weekend up near Malmo and it was very slow. As a group we managed 3 walleyes (all too big) and 2 smallmouth. All the fish were nice and chunky. Two of the walleyes were on a leech and lindy rig in 15-17'. One walleye on jig and shiner in 7'. We were marking fish in a variety of depths... just couldn't get them to go.

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I took a couple hours off from smallie fishing on Thursday and did well on eyes. Ended up with 7 and missed a few others in probably less then 2 hours of fishing. All fish were caught in less then 7ft of water next to weeds.

That still sounds like bass fishing to me wink

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Haha it pretty much was! This area that I caught the walleyes in I have found them there before in the spring along with smallies so I thought I would try it again for eyes and what do ya know, they were in there haha.

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Tony Roach has had some successes:

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