Bellaire
Wt 56-57
Good visibility and seems a lot clearer than last week
Weeds are dying off but still some green present
Trolled from 5am to 10am with nothing but a big pike.
Casted a few spots from 10- noon hoping to get a larger one to eat that i seen earlier in the week but could only muster up a dink pike and prob 5.5lb smallmouth. Was a beautiful morning albeit a little chilly but I just love fishing in the fall when other boaters are nearly nonexistent.
Ben Way
Wt 55-56
Great visibility
Still a lot of tall weeds and hanging in there.
Casted for a couple hours on Ben way in the evening. Lost a small fish on a suick right away. Caught a bagillion pike, one being really large for Ben way, and had a follow on a mag dawg from a low to mid 40. Everything was in the 14-18 ft ranges. Lots of activity for a couple hours which is a pretty big change of pace from the monotony of trolling the bigger lakes for "the one".
I am going to assume you meant 10/7!
I must have been in between all of these flurries of activity. Was there 10/1-10/3, right after Will and company caught a couple over the weekend, and before you had SOME activity.
Water temps further up were a little warmer than that, around 59, but levels were rising quickly. From normal levels on Sunday night/Monday, to well over the docks on Wednesday. My Dad told me he had to wear waders to get to his boat on Friday! Clarity remained OK-ish except for a nasty algae bloom on 6 mile.
We saw almost no predator fish, except for a few dink pike. I had a Walleye follow a suick and swing boatside Monday morning.
Bait was schooled up deep, and we stopped and checked for fish around the piles of bait, while trying to dissect what each pile consisted of. We found no muskies, and a TON of 4-5" perch.
One lucky stop happened to be a school of 7-8" bluegills, so we stuck around for a while, pulling up 2-3 at a time on perch and sabiki rigs…
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