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Originally Posted by cube
Water sure looks nice and clean and sounds like you guys had a great time, which is the most important part of the trip.
When the fishing was off did you try very shallow?
I know for me this year on May long I found my most consistent action in 3-6 feet of water. It seemed the active fish were in very shallow even though the spawn was clearly over. I found this odd given that last year while I expected them to be shallow they were in fact deep. Also both this year and last the ice came off late and the water temps were not that different.
Found I sure had to work for every fish I managed to hook.
Thanks again for the report.
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We fished shallow, we fished drops, we fished deep, we fished flats, emerging weeds, sand, rocks ..... you name it.
In fact we put my boat into places a kayaker would have had trouble navigating - and into water where my motor had to be trimmed up and fighting current to meander between rocks and into back flows and flats on both the inflow and outflows as well.
Man we worked the lake ..... we did catch fish ..... but it was serious shenanigans on some days.
Got chased off the lake a few times with storms moving in, lightening, and seeing storms and dead calm appear and re-appear several times a day for 3 days straight made it a real adventure.
The funny thing is all the walleye were post spawn and no longer staged and had began to re-distribute into the lake, while, down the road at Waterhen, they were still post spawn staged and still grouped up (got this intel from a fellow we met out there with a red Kingfisher who I think said lived in Cold lake).
The weather changed the last day and the fishing improved just in time for our departure !! lol.
Met the guy chatted a little while on Lac Des Isles then saw him upon our trip back home at the boat inspection. He had been that morning and found some walleyes still staged in Waterhen and hammered out a limit in 20 minutes.