The Bite

[701FishSlayer]

"The Bite". You guys know what I'm talking about. Any day now it should turn on like a light switch. We gotta be real close. I'm talking big lake here. Anybody else have thoughts? I usually chase the bite starting out west and move east. This time I don't think I will. Gunna stick with the east end and grind it out over there starting late next week, timing should be close. Just getting impatient I guess.

 

[shorthairsrus]

I am going to roll over that direction first part of July. I thunk this may be the year

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Of the big bite

 

[Hornhunter]

Not sure what ur getting at. Been catching fish for the last three weeks from Douglas to garrison.

 

[eyexer]

I haven't heard a good thing for Van Hook yet

 

[deleted_account]

I am going to roll over that direction first part of July. I thunk this may be the year

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Of the big bite

Not sure why you'd leave devils unless you've become a full on bottom bouncer fisherman now...

 

[701FishSlayer]

I haven't heard a good thing for Van Hook yet

Should pop off midweek or by end of week you'd think.

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Not sure what ur getting at. Been catching fish for the last three weeks from Douglas to garrison.

Normal june bite is all.

 

[ndfinfan]

Camped at Stevenson this past weekend...fished 4 times-big lake and Audubon...caught nothing but pike and smallies, used minnows/crawlers/plastics/cranks/spinners...couldn't get on any eyes...maybe the heat forecast for later this week will turn the eyes on? Water temp on the big lake still only 56-58 where I was at...

 

[Joe]

Blaming the crazy weather and smelt die off as a reason why Sakakawea has been poor, I actually had better luck in March by the embankment. Audobon I blame on that ridiculous idea of draining and then refilling the lake. About all that did was grow mossy crap in the deeper pools.

I expect audobon will start producing sometime in the next week or two, and Sakakawea might be dead all year, especially on the east end.

 

[eyexer]

Should pop off midweek or by end of week you'd think.

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Normal june bite is all.

I would think. But it's usually going hard by now

 

[k9guy82]

I don't know what you guys are talking about...Audobon seems alright to me

 

[Sum1]

The fish are always biting somewhere.

 

[Hornhunter]

Too all on here, take these reports with a grain of salt. First off the fishing has been pretty good with lots of limits the past few weeks. Just look at the cleaning station when u pull out. Second u can't even call it a smelt die off down on the lower end of the lake it was so minor.

 

[shorthairsrus]

smelt die off would increase the bite not hinder.

 

[DirtyMike]

smelt die off would increase the bite not hinder.

Unless they're too full on dead smelt and won't chase your crawler harness.

 

[Captain Ahab]

My hands hurt from handling about 50 fish yesterday. Especially after removing a double hooked treble out of my thumb. They are biting.

 

[Kurtr]

Unless they're too full on dead smelt and won't chase your crawler harness.

like when all the shad died on oahe it was hard to get a bite all winter

 

[johnr]

maybe you guys are doing it all wrong?

 

[DirtyMike]

maybe you guys are doing it all wrong?

Like riding a motorcycle instead of fishing?

 

[johnr]

Like riding a motorcycle instead of fishing?

exactly, I got skunked this weekend too...haha damn evasive eyeballs.

 

[shorthairsrus]

IMO - the east end starts in July - the big bite -- any die off of smelt will be gone or rotting by then. As with any body of water - the water has to warm up