Ahh yes, the east end. It can be great :;:rockitor a fickle bitch ;:;barffrom one day to the next. I have fished it many, many years. Typically, for me any how, it gets good anywhere from 2 to 3 weeks after the west end/middle of the lake gets going. Last year I had great success from the middle of June to the end of July and never went more than a mile away from either ramp at Fort Stevenson. So far this year, not so much. I camped at Fort Stevenson from from July 31st to August 11th and struggled to find fish the first 7 days when it was hot and no wind. Kept 3 fish after 20 hours of fishing in 13 to 48 feet of water from Douglas Bay to Hwy 83 up until Thursday of last week. Finally found them on Thursday morning on a sunken island east of the park, pulling a slow death with 2 gold or silver beads on a BB with a live/plastic crawler in 29 to 31 feet of water at 1 to 1.2 mph. Took an hour and a half to get our 10.
Went back to the same sunken island Saturday morning, got there before the sun was up and had these after in 2.5 hours of fishing
Caught with a pink and sliver, smile blade, and slow death with a Gulp crawler on a BB in 34 feet of water. If you were going faster than.9 mph you weren’t catching fish. Got chased off due to the weather before we got our 15.