great day out of sterling state park

**HOOKER RED** · 06-07-2012, 07:38 PM

jack
so when the lake lays down do you got to slow down to get them to bite? have you had sucess with that? when it got flat everything quit biting on us. even the sheephead.were you getting them on spoons mostly? were you using mini divers? i have never fished with spoons for eyes.

**ebijack** · 06-08-2012, 05:10 AM

If you were running spoons, just keep going usually in the 2 to 2.5 mph range right now has been working for the guys running spoons. I have to admit I'm lazy and prefer running harnesses/spoon harnesses as I get better results with alot less line out. I'd rather run 15 to 45 back ( inlines/bouncers vs jets or mini disks) then 80 to 120 back. But if the bugs are bad, go with the spoons and keep a breeze on ya. Yes for me, when it lays down I will slow down using harnesses. Typically .8 to 1.2 max with 1mph average. I loose alot of fish that way when the mayfly hatch is going like it is now. As they don't bite real hard/solid but I tend to get alot more bites then if I was doing 1.4 up. Another trick is if your inlines are shallow enough to not snag bottom, do a semi hard turn to stall the boards on one side. We got a triple hook up yesterday and a double doing just that. Among those were short fish also but fun.

**HOOKER RED** · 06-08-2012, 07:40 AM

thanks for the info jack. i will try it next time i go out.

**ebijack** · 06-09-2012, 02:30 PM

The wife and I headed out at daybreak. Weather guessers were wrong again. Big surprise. Anyway, stopped in 25 f.o.w., not many marks at all. Trolled out almost to the line. Nothing. Ran back in to 23 ft,First fish of the day.. BIG surprise. had a couple throwback shorts and 1st keeper walleye. Trolled towards the line again as it was solid 2's with 3 and 4's thrown in. Ended up going back to 23 ft. Bingo, 5 more in the box. We had 11 by 9:30. Lost 20 + that took the board under then let go. Took 1hr 45 mins to get the last one. Biggest was 23 inches, a few 22 inches the rest shorter. .9 to 1.2 mph, any faster and we didn't get bit at all. Not one single walleye on a harnesses but we tried. Every one came on spoon harnesses. We ran regular harnesses till when we had to get the last one. Here's a few...

**[email protected]** · 06-09-2012, 05:17 PM

Ill be out tomorrow using 2 to 1 1/2 oz bb with out boards wanted to know how much line i should let out say if im in 23 feet and also if i move to 15 fett