Jackson 6/7

1303 Views 14 Replies 7 Participants Last post by Fish Fondler, Jun 8, 2005

lynmack

Discussion Starter · Jun 8, 2005

I just had to get back to Jackson after seeing the post from last night.I had planned to go down to Spinney and stop at Jefferson on the way back but the wipers were calling me!I belive i made the right decision!Got there at11:30 and headed twards the inlet.Caught two wipers on my way down to the inlet and had pretty much nonstop action for the next two hours.I was in 5 to 8 feet of water trolling,would you believe,a 3/8oz cutthroat kastmaster and a small floating silver rapala.Had 15 (all but 3 were 15+inches)by 4pm.Headed back to the dock to take care of some business and headed back down to the inlet.Ended up catching 6 more wipers and one small trout.I cant believe how much i spent on rat-l-traps and shadraps when my trusty(#1in my book)kastmaster was all i needed.Caught 90% on it!It was to shallow for the rat-l-traps and Shadraps.Killer day! lyn

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work2fish

· #2 · Jun 8, 2005

Great job. I had the feeling that most anything sparkly or bright would work -- glad to see you had a good day fishing!

I like the last sentence from the DOW report for Jackson, it says:

"The inlet is no longer productive." :

rottal

· #3 · Jun 8, 2005

work2fish said:
Great job. I had the feeling that most anything sparkly or bright would work -- glad to see you had a good day fishing!

I like the last sentence from the DOW report, it says:

"The inlet is no longer productive." :

lol...you gotta take those DOW reports and do exactly opposite of what they say sometimes.....

Fish Fondler

· #4 · Jun 8, 2005

A buddy and I fished it today as well from (9:45 am to 1:45 pm). We ended up with 18 legal wipers and threw back another 6-8 undersized ones. Non-stop wiper action the entire time we were there. Trolling off of the inlet over 8-10 ft. of water. We had our luck on primarily silver and blue rat-l-traps. However, they were not too picky. Trout seemed to have slowed down or moved to deeper water. We caught one 17" rainbow and lost a couple of others. Nothing like it has been. Probably the warmer water has them going deeper then the wipers. Lynmack - we probably passed each other a couple of times.

Wipers for dinner tomorrow!

lynmack

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jun 8, 2005

Thats crazy!!! they must have a secret agenda!DO you think they worrie about it getting over fished?I let all mine go!They also stocked 4000 trout when i was launching my boat.I use to really believe those reports but that was the final straw!I guess IITV has alot of merit to what he says.
lyn

p.s. Oh ya dont fish the inlet(more for me!)

lynmack

Discussion Starter · #6 · Jun 8, 2005

FF i was the guy in green in the little boat w/5hp force eng.The one with a fish on his line most of the day.What were you on?
lyn

Fish Fondler

· #7 · Jun 8, 2005

Lynmack,

I was in the 14 ft. gold-colored jonboat with the 9.9 Johnson. We had fish on most of the time as well.

lynmack

Discussion Starter · #8 · Jun 8, 2005

I dont remember seeing ya but i was lookin for ya.I saw your post this morning.Hopefully we'll run into each other some time.

lyn

work2fish

· #9 · Jun 8, 2005

Fish Fondler said:
A buddy and I fished it today as well from (9:45 am to 1:45 pm). We ended up with 18 legal wipers and threw back another 6-8 undersized ones. Non-stop wiper action the entire time we were there. Trolling off of the inlet over 8-10 ft. of water. We had our luck on primarily silver and blue rat-l-traps. However, they were not too picky. Trout seemed to have slowed down or moved to deeper water. We caught one 17" rainbow and lost a couple of others. Nothing like it has been. Probably the warmer water has them going deeper then the wipers. Lynmack - we probably passed each other a couple of times.

FF,

So you started a bit earlier this time and still had good luck... Any idea what the water temp was today?

catfishking

· #10 · Jun 8, 2005

i got to the lake today at 4stayed till 7.30 tried the inlet first i had a couple wiper but lost them went to the dam had a couple bites looks like i really missed the action i was on shore so thats probobly why i really want to go on a boat there so if anyone ever needs some to go with and has a boat let me know thanks

idratherbfishing

· #11 · Jun 8, 2005

you guys are scaring me. the more i hear about your success the more I am convinced the bite will be off beginning next sunday.......... :-\

Dan

Fish Fondler

· #12 · Jun 8, 2005

Work2Fish,

Due to a prior committment to my 6-year old's little league team, I had to start earlier then I would have liked. However, it did not seem to matter. We had hot wiper action the entire time we were there. The hottest action was still between 12:00 and 1:30 pm. It was tough quitting at that point, but family committments come first (also we had already had one hell of a day). Do not know the exact water temperature, but it did feel warmer to the touch then it did a week ago (maybe someone else knows?).

Dan,

I think this bite should continue for a couple more weeks as long as the lake does not turn green (algae blooms) as someone mentioned in an earlier report. I think they said it happened last year in the middle of the June. Hopefully, with lake being at full capacity, it would delay any such occurrences. Does anyone know about this? I paid special attention to the boat launch conditions for you, and do not think you would have any problem launching with your car.

Here is a picture of the nine wiper that I brought home.

http://tinypic.com/5tt37o

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hooknline

· #13 · Jun 8, 2005

Good job man nice pic. Nothing better than reeling in a wiper.

idratherbfishing

· #14 · Jun 8, 2005

Thanks again FishFondler!

I appreciate all the info more than you know! Nice fish, what did you catch the Corrona on?

Dan

Fish Fondler

· #15 · Jun 8, 2005

I caught the Corona on a buzz-bait!

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