They turned Lake Wohlford into a trout pond!
This report will be kinda brief. Because I just sound like a broken record, we went to lake Wohlford again in a boat and in 3 hours it was full limits for the boat again! That makes it 5 for 5 this year on limiting the whole boat out in just a few hours. If you read the lake Wohlford Press release here on FNN, you will notice they are stocking the crap out of the place! They did 2 stocking 5 day's apart then another 2,000 pound stocking a week later. That lake is getting stocked more then a trout pond! Their not stocking this week, but it doesn't matter because it rained so much. But their stocking it again next week! I also read their doing a double stocking the first week in April, which will be the last stocking of the year. So their trout season is only 5 months long, but what a 5 months! No lake even comes close in having that much success. They actually stock more trout in Dixon lake but they don't bite as well in there. So the numbers of fish stocked isn't always the only measure of success.
On to the fishing!
It's just too dam easy in there, I'm convinced anybody who goes there and does the same thing as I do, will limit themselves out every time. (as long as the water doesn't turn over) All's you need is light line #2-4 pound test, 1 number 5 size split shot and a number 16 size treble hook. The bait is Rainbow power bait with garlic, dipped in Bite on garlic sauce. That's the hot rig and bait! Drift between the 2nd to the last air ratter to the last air ratter in the East end of the lake and your good. This trip we went on a weekend and it was kinda crowded. So we just drifted where there was no other boats in the area I described. We just picked them up 1 fish at a time till we were all done! We drifted a little bit around for catfish but we had no luck on them. However, my spidey sense did pick up something kinda interesting. When we were drifting around the deep end of the lake, I saw a boat tied up to the West buoy's. It's a bad place for trout and the catfishing is much better just off of them. So what were these boy's doing there? (I know that is also a known Crappie spot) If I read in the reports of someone making a good catch of Crappie on the West buoy's, that would be them. Sure enough in the next report, I read 2 guy's caught 20 Crappie to #2 pounds on the West buoy's. That was them alright! So the next time we get a warm spell, I'm going to pick up some minnows and giving it a go on Crappie. After were done limiting out on trout of course!
