Braved the crowds on Brookville today

[binfordw]

We went out Friday, but got a late start due to an appointment my wife had to get to in the morning. We decided to try again Saturday and just get there early, in an attempt to beat some of the crowd.

We put in at about 7am, still a slight chill in the air and calm waters. We decided to do some casting, since 95% of the time since we got the boat we have been trolling. It was a perfect time for it, so I stopped at a point in the Garr hill cove and dropped the trolling motor.

It wasn't long after throwing a threadfin colored Arkie 220 that I got bit by a decent walleye I lost at the boat, and landed another shortly after that was over 19". We caught 2 more keepers before moving out of the cove to try some trolling.


The flats outside of Garr hill were loaded with walleye jiggers. We hadn't fished this far south yet this year, so we idled along and had a look at the depth. There was just no room to troll on the breakline that the dozen boats were on, but the depth looked good for pulling 300's south of the crowd, so we dropped lines in the water and followed the bank. We marked tons of fish holding 15-20ft in 25-30ft of water, which I believe were probably mostly white bass. We hooked into a couple decent white bass, and also a few more walleye, one of which kept.

The depth was nice and consistent here, no shallow points to worry about and easy room to turn around. Plus all the fish showing gave us hope of a little fun. We made a few passes before deciding to head north and try the flats at Egypt Hollow we have had luck at so far.


There were 7-8 boats in a pile on the breakline at egypt hollow as well. We dropped lines in far south by the creek inlet, in 40ft of water. We had been catching fish here shallow the last few trips, but the points are difficult to troll cranks because they are so abrupt and shallow. We stayed far from shore today, and marked lots of fish again in 40ft of water about 10-15ft deep. We picked up a couple crappie on our first pass, and a few more over several more runs but it was pretty slow. We trolled up the breakline, around all the walleye boats into the shallow flats and then back towards the creek inlet in deep water. We wound up with 5 keeper crappie before we quit at lunchtime and headed back to the ramp.

[cevans]

Nice report and awesome fishing. I wished Brookville wasn't a 3 hr 15 min. drive one way for me. It's got to be our best lake to fish especially the way it produces walleye, small and lg. mouth, and crappies. Keep us posted how your doing.

[Billbob]

good trip

[crp4570]

Congrats on a nice trip. Glad you picked up enough for a meal.

[Locator79]

Good stuff right there

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[cevans]

And your catching nice fish on a dropping lake as army corps engineers is pulling water big time out of the lake to get it normal pool. WTG!