Hit the water about 2 pm.The walleye fishing was slow so I threw out the leadcore rod with a Rip N minnow in perch and started trolling medicare beach for trout.Right off the bat I get a violant take down.With 4 colors out at 30 ft per color and a 30 ft leader.It takes me a bit to bring to the net a 2lb or so rainbow.
Thinking this was going to be pretty fast action I put out again and start trolling.After a couple of hours and no more fish I switch sides of the lake and start trolling out in front of Mar Don.Again right off the bat a violant take down. This fish feels bigger but when I get it closer to the boat I realize its smaller just foul hooked on the back of his head.I lift it out of the water to realize that the trout was not a rainbow,but a 1 1/2 lb or so tiger trout.I have caught these things before but had no idea that any were in this lake.I unhook him and toss him back.I continued trolling till about 7 then called it a day.I did stop by the docks and check out the zillion or so perch swimming all over,but as expensive worms are these days I wasnt going to feed them to a bunch of 5 -6 inch perch.I actually saw where someone actually filleted some of them.

G-Man

6/10/2013 9:11:00 PM

You only need to catch one fish to have all the bait you need for a day of hauling in perch. Dropshot a bit of perch skin off the face of the dam for the larger fish.

jbball50

6/11/2013 7:27:00 AM

Yup perch meat is all you need, we went there the other weekend and caught perch to 12 inches off the dock. A lot of smaller fish to go through at first though.

trout-killa

6/11/2013 5:18:00 PM

This is a lake that I would really like to fish. For the Cabela's fish for millions contest, tiger trout were stocked in that lake. They are tagged though. Sounds like you had a good day. Do you know of any good bank fishing spots on the lake (that I don't have to pay for). Never been there, but would like to catch some awesome panfish, bass, walleye, trout etc. Perch fishing sounds really fun right now.

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