Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Launched the kayaks with a friend at 6am yesterday at Algonkian. Went upstream and fished the MD channel side of Tenfoot Island along the banks early with Tiny Torpedos. Had many strikes near the lure but no hook ups...then I got one and figured out why I'd had so many misses. Turned out that the hits were from bluegills and not smallies. Landed 3 bluegills before the sun got too high. Fished with a white Roostertail next and got 3 more, but all were bluegills with largest going 8.5". Switched to 3" green Senko worm in the channel between the lower half of  Van Deventer Island and the MD shoreline with no luck. Water temp at dawn was 82 and shallow areas were clear, but anything deeper than about 3' had suspended particles that stained the water.

My friend fished the channel along both islands and he caught 4 smallies using Senko craws...all from the deeper water which along there was from 4' up to 7'. Got too hot to fish by 9:30am so we called it quits and went to breakfast at Bob Evans instead. That was probably the highlight of the day.

Sorry...no pictures worth taking today.