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All the Clinton State Park boat ramps are open, high water had all but number 1 shutdown last week. The Rock creek boat ramp is no longer accessible, they blocked the road due to 4 wheelers trashing the area.
Not crappie, but eater sized cats are plentiful and hungry. Caught a limit of 3lbers on punchbait yesterday, fished flooded cover with slipbobbers.
Thanks Center,
Did you see any shad flipping in the water?
No shad. Went way up in Coon creek and the thing was loaded with fry, couldn't tell what species but something had a great hatch.......lets hope crappie!!
Was fly fishing the dam last week and you could see small pods of young shad moving on the calm surface. Plenty of places for young of the year to hide right now and cicadae's are keeping the predators belly's full.......could be a great year class.
Wife and I were there today. She caught her 1st walleye, probably 12" long. Ended up w/ 7 keeper crappie, had 3 or 4 shorts, all caught trolling crank baits, we were walleye fishing but ended up w/ crappies instead.
Usually launch at Bloomington but didn't know if it was open and didn't check, went to #1 boat ramp. That place was a madhouse at 3 when were leaving.
Sounds like longlining some jigs might work, my boat doesn't troll well so crankbaits aren't really an option.
I try to avoid Clinton on the weekends if I can. Thanks for the report.
Went and caught a limit of cats today, saw lots of young of the shad.......even saw some whites busting them out in front of the back boat ramp. Went way up into Dry creek and it is loaded with small shad. Water towards main lake is looking much better, doubt Ill do any good but going to try dipping some timber. Charlie
Did better than I figured I would, kept 8, lost 2 keepers at the boat. Probably caught 20 total, all on standing timber and about 5' down. Lake is rising and I started about 8:30 and pulled off at noon. Charlie
Anybody recognize this place?
:highfive Yep, about 100 yards out in front of it there is a bowling ball with pvc sticking every which way out of it!! Put in there several years ago at a brush party. Looks good on side scan and down scan, not so good on 2D.
Yep, water looks good, nice picture. I'll have to try and find the bowling ball.
No Bruce. It's to close to the water from what I remember.
Clinton was a rough go today, easterly wind, south side is muddy, and they are dropping the lake at a good clip......caught 5 total. Best part of trip was running into Bruce and shooting the breeze. There's always tomorrow.
At least you had a nice day temperature wise and caught a few. Was the area by the island muddy also? Might be walleying there tomorrow.
Fairly clear around island, south side cleared up some today. Ended up catching fish in some pretty dirty water today, not a lot but had one go a little over 13".
That's a nice fish even for a pro like you, thanks for the info., looks like we'll be fighting the wind at Clinton. My knees are healing up but slower than I like so I still can't get my boat out but I'm gettin pretty good at inviting myself along on others boats :biggrin (thanks Ron and Chad) and they don't seem to mind my fish-bite-killing talent. ( ignore my voice mail on you're phone you already answered my question) Lets chase some crappie some time.
Not many crappie today but I did drag in this. Did not realize they were that bad.Attachment 207392
Was very slow for me too, but did pull 2-12" and a 13" off one tree.....not much after that.
Wow Bruce, looks like they are coming on pretty strong!