Because of what we saw down south Saturday, we decided to fish the inland sea Sunday. We started a little later than yesterday and arrived the the sandbar around 8am. We started out just south west of Cedar and fished the 90' contour at a depth of 50' or so and then made pass around the same area around 120'. Again, we found white perch (some nicer ones) but we threw them all back. We also tried fishing a bit deeper to 70' but the same results.
We then tried fishing the eastern shore up from the sandbar at the 120' contour, same thing.. white perch.
We then went back across the channel and fished the 120 countor on the eastern side of savage and fish bladder at a 60-70'. We did catch the same thing, white perch. But the sonar readings here showed really strong lines of fish at 70 and 90 feet. It was different here than in other areas of the south end of the sea. I did also try sitting still and jigging a Swedish Pimple lure down 70-90 feet but no takers on that. It's always hard for me to tell just what I'm marking with the sonar. They were arches, but it could have been junk, who knows.
All I know Salmon weren't coming up on our lines.
We headed over to Heros welcome for lunch only to find their docks were damaged and they didn't want any large boats to tie up so back out to the lake and Gull Island on empty stomachs. Luckily the bass action was heavy so we forgot about the lack of lunch. We picked up a dozen nice bass, the biggest a 3 lb 2 oz small mouth which fought like a 4 pounder (he seriously bent our worm hook and I don't believe I've ever seen with any bass before). The rest were a healthy 1.0 - 2 lb with the average around 1.5. When we started there were a few bass boats around and every time we looked up we saw a new one. There had to be a tourney going on because of all the fancy boats/uniforms. We were pulling them up left and right on the Senkos and we didn't see any of the 'pros' do a whole lot.
One day we're going to enter one of these bass tourneys and show up in our cruiser.
Once really nice thing about the day, we didn't have to dodge a single piece of wood and the water was relatively clear.
Terri
. Now our youngest are 20 and while they'll still go tubing, they don't spend their time on the lake with us... girlfriends (my youngest son) and boyfriends (Chris's youngest daughter) take up most of their time and they're back to college now anyways. But we enjoy staying over night on the lake and a few comforts so I think our path is set now. Salmon fishing looked like a good use of our boat to feed our fishing hunger... so I hope they show up soon!
