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Originally Posted by aulrich
To really know you would have to go late May early June or just before turnover .
Even in low pressure lakes like Dory the big fish get very scarce after the water warms up, I have seen it happen overnight.
The steep banks make it an odd place to fish, I was yo-yo' a lipless for the most part, but caught on spoons , jerkbaits , plain old rapala minnow and even dead sticking a pickerel rig.
I made a couple of cross lake trips and I was marking fish and tons of bait all through the water column.
if we ever go back there I will spend some time towing a one of my 7" deep runners along those steep edges
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All these small lakes close to town are the same. Battle, Wizard, Devils etc. Battle might have a few bigger ones just because it is one of the few ones that actually has tons of food for them to be picky though. I don't fish there much but the few times I have it has always been the same for me with small pike and some decent walleye.
I had my limit by 10:30 so spent a large portion of the rest of the day looking for a big pike to upgrade with. I tried everything I could think of even trolling deep in the middle of the lake, casting big spoons in shallows and of course trolling a variety of big lures along the dropoffs but only caught a small pike and a decent walleye on the bigger lures.
On small lakes like this it doesn't take that many anglers to pressure it. Just think if we would have been keeping them our little tournament would have taken out more then 20 fish in the one day. Guaranteed some of the boats were having luck and taking some home too.