Cranking Muddy Water Today

[cevans]

I thought I would fish today before the masses hit the lakes this weekend so launched at 6:30 am as the sun was breaking. Did I say sun? As I idled out from the launch the fog hit and it was solid. So turned the running lights on and idled a couple of 3 miles out in the lake as I couldn't see 20' in front of me and was running by the lake map in my locator. At 7:30 finally got the lines in the water and started trolling 3 diff. colored bandits and as the fog finally lifted at 9 am I could finally see the water was light muddy any where I looked. Water temp started out at 65 and by noon finally hit 70. Caught maybe 40 total, kept 19 that went from 10" to 14.5. Purple/Chartruese was the hot color 9-10 down at 1.6 mph. Any faster they just wouldn't hit. The 2 largest was 14.25 and other one was 14.5" as its the best you will get out of this lake and you just don't get many that size, but the other fish were all nice mostly 11 to 13 as I just didn't catch that many 10" and when I cleaned them, eggs were still not ready, 2 were males, the rest were all females. There wasn't that many fishing this morning and those that were, were pounding the banks, docks, few trees in the lake, cover,,and just weren't catching anything in shallow water in this lake as the fish are still stacked in the creek channels, on deeper drops,,and so is all the bait balls too. Crazy weather we have been having as we just don't need anymore rain and we need some warm weather as when I launched the temp was 51 and chilly. I was off the lake by 1pm. Tuesday before the major storms past couple of days, I went to Brookvile. I hadn't been on that lake in 27-30 yrs. Had good water, 68 degree water temp, little wind if any, Took me 3 hrs and 15 minutes to get to Hanna's Creek Launch and spent 5 hrs fishing then 3 hrs 15 min back home. Didn't really know what I was getting into but had a ton of tackle with me. Caught 2 small walleyes, 6 crappies and couple of bass and just took mental notes of how everybody else was fishing as it was a classic cluster fubar and fishing rodeo on the flats. When I took out the launch was full with no where for anybody else to park as they were waiting on me to pull out. I think I will do my walleye fishing on Monroe and Patoka, and you people can have Brookville as its crazy with the way boaters cut each other off trolling and moving into each other when one does catch a fish. Worse than Caddy Shack. Same goes for Sat, Sun, and Monday,,the lakes are all yours. Have at it. Fish on, and enjoy the muddy water and have a great Memorial Day weekend and remember why we have this holiday to remember those that gave their freedom so we can have ours. Be Safe.