Since it was supposed to be nice until later today I decided to put my boat on the water for the first time today. The boat worked great, the weather however was horrible. I got my boat in the water a little before noon after I waited out the snow. I trolled around a bit with a flatfish, mostly just checking lake depths with my fishfinder since I hadn't been on this lake in a boat. I thought perhaps my fishfinder was broken as I wasn't marking any fish. I trolled around for about 45 minutes and then the hail started. I said "heck with this" and headed back to the ramp as I accomplished what I wanted. When I got into the bay by the boat launch I started marking a few fish (by the mouth of the stream that flows in) and the hail was letting up so I decided to anchor there and fish a bit.

I was marking fish in depths 10'-15', the water temp was 44. I was just using half a crawler about 5 feet under a bobber, and ended up getting my limit within 20 minutes with this set up. The total was 4 rainbows (the lake was just planted a few days ago) and 1 cutthroat. The reason I gave it a rating of 4 was that I got the fish too darn quick :).

tomnordman

4/18/2011 7:50:00 PM

Nice day. I just got a fishfinder and I enjoy going to the lakes I fish just to see the bottom and such. My fishing buddies get irritated with me playing with it but it is my boat so suck it up. Enjoy going to lakes never been on and the finder helps me locate structure where they migh be. Most of the time I catch fish when there is nothing being marked but on ocassion I get the fish when they are marked right under the boat when the lure gets to the spot. Nice report

CanoeingIt

4/18/2011 8:39:00 PM

Sound like a good time. I just got a portable Humminbird fishfinder. My boy and I have been having lots of fun with it at Deep lake. Can't say its helped me catch fish yet but Ive been putting my time in exploring for drop offs, holes, and structure. One thing I noticed is that pretty much any object can be ID'd as a fish. Logs and submerged lilly pads, and if there are thousands of fish how come they don't show up? Owell nothing is going ot be perfect. Glad you got a boat and are getting out there. Have fun!

Bobber

4/18/2011 11:16:00 PM

Hope the water level is up to the boat launch now,
Last time I was there I had to drag my boat 100 yards to the water.

yooper_fisher

4/19/2011 6:51:00 AM

Canoe: Glad to hear you're having fun over at deep, maybe I'll see you at fish one of these days or I might suck it up and try fishing deep again.
Bobber: The water level is def up. It's into the parking lot, not the highest I've seen it, but pretty high. Where I was fishing during August from shore is now under 20' of water.

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