One dink! Stocked trout are bigger than this guy. Question is it the fish managements position to take the fish and kill down the population due to over population by the stripper? There are so many small striper I can easily see a problem with trying to feed this many fish as they grow bigger.
Anyway I tossed him back to grow up.
The water level continues to rise and all the fishing spots I had that produced are now underwater. Almost all the beaches are gone from the backside, and either you fish off of a 10 - 15 foot cliff, and who knows how you would land a big fish, getting it from the water to the top without a large gaff? Or fish off of the few beaches in the inside loop of the cove?
Water color is clearing up but has the look of water that has a lot of sediment in it, reminds me of the glacier water in rivers up north, has almost the same color as glacier run off. But the green moss is gone! That has to be good for the oxygen levels.
Guy I spoke to yesterday caught nice trout out of the cove I was fishing from the night before, so I am going to start bring a trout stick with me. My friend caught a nice trout, all silver like a lake trout, last week off of shrimp, so I believe this guy caught trout 2 nights ago.
Shore fishing on the backside has gotten harder and the fish are not biting like a few weeks ago.
Water is very high, it seems to jump up a foot or so of shoreline every night.
Any ideas as to why they are filling the lake so much?
Michael