Monday Fishing Report....5/8/17

After the big rain and winds we just had from Thursday through Sunday...the lake was really muddy on the south shore, so we just headed north to start out and look for cleaner water.

The last place I left fish, was up by Lucy's Point, so I headed that way first.  The water began to clear up on the north side of the Monument on South Bass Island.

We set up north of Lucy's and headed in a SE direction (with the waves). We had good marks, but couldn't get anything to bite. We ran chrome Bandits all over the water column, but the word on the radio was that no one was catching.

My suspicion was that the full moon had these fish inactive, due to full bellies. With clear skies the night before, and that giant moon, the fish would have been feeding at night.   The reports I received later in the afternoon told me that my suspicion was probably correct, because the bite turned on later in the afternoon.

I was supposed to fish with Gary and Mark again today, but since they brought their own Ranger here from Nebraska, I had the feeling they were just nervous about being on the big lake for the first time, and suggested they take their own boat out today instead, because the conditions were going to be nice today.

After I dropped them off at the ramp yesterday, they went and had some lunch and went back out, and did what we were doing in the morning. They ended up catching 6 walleye, a couple sheepshead, and some whitebass. :)

So, I'm off today, and will get my grass cut (if the ground is still not too wet) before it rains again on Thursday.

I'll be back out again on Wednesday, but asked my customer if we could do a later start, so we could get the late morning...early afternoon...bite.

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls