Lake Wohlford is on Fire!!!
No I don't mean in the way of a brush fire. (there was one not too far away but it missed the lake) I'm talking about taking the whole family out in a rental boat and knocking the crap out of them. The lake was "heavily stocked" and not a whole lot of angling pressure were put on the fish. It looked like only 6-7 boats were rented out today and 7500 lbs of trout have been stocked in a week.
The way I like to fish them is to drift the East end of the lake. The big key of success in drifting is to have the right amount of wind to push the boat. So when I checked the weather for Friday the 15th I was a little worried. It was to be windy to about 10:00 am in the morning and then get really nice. (sun out and 7 mph of wind after 10:00 am) On this adventure I took with me someone new. A reader of FNN who wanted to learn more about the lake. He had read all my fishing reports last year on Lake Wohlford and thought I was the guy to try to learn something from.
We started off drifting in some pretty nasty wind for nothing more then a few bites and no fish. We then anchored down waiting for the wind to die down. (Boy do I hate that kind of fishing) We did catch a couple and the wind started to back down. The other 2 boats that were fishing the area left and we had the whole place to ourselves. I knew the North corner was always a good spot and we started to pick away at them. As the day wore on the weather got nicer and nicer and the fishing really took off. We were going to C&R as many as we could with circle hooks and smashed down barbs. The fish came in 2 sizes, a little over a pound and about 2 pounds apiece. (smaller then the Tail Walkers they stocked last year) Once the weather got perfect the fishing went stupid!!! Every drift was 3 or 4 bites where ever we went in the zone. We missed a ton of bites because we were trying to lip hook them for a safe release.
I don't normally say this too often when I'm fishing. "IT WAS TOO EASY!!!" (not much of a challenge) So I called it an early day to beat the traffic home. Even though they changed hatchery's for purchasing their fish. They bit the same baits in the same places as last year. If anyone wants a break down of that, re read my posts from last year and I give a pretty accurate description on what to use.
Their stocking again this Wed and pretty much turned this into shooting fish in a barrel fishing for those in the know. If anyone want's any specific questions answered, "just ask, I'm here to help." I think this year the trout fishing is going to be super easy. So I'm going to try to learn how to catch the other species of fish in the lake. I got the catfish thing down already, but the Bass and the Crappie are still something I need to master. I will be going down there pretty often this year but look for more of a combo fish report from me. (the trout aren't much of a challenge any more.)
