I need someone giving me some advice.
I have been to EC in this summer, fishing from shore. The number of fish I caught was getting less and less, until it reached zero last week. I understand the water level is significantly low, but I am not sure that affects fishing success or the lake has not been stocked. I need someone fishing from boat tell me where is still deep in the current situation and reachable from shore. Thanks.
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Anywhere near the dam or the east shore is easy casting distance to deeper water. Taylor Hollow has always been a sweet spot from the bank. Right on the points in that cove with bottle bait or worm/mallows. Mornings and evenings are the best. There are still a huge number of fish being caught in boats. A good friend fished it tuesday and caught 27 fish in 5 hours trolling wedding rings and RMT dodgers and various lures behind them.[cool]
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Have you fished up by the dam and around those steep shorelines?
I was thinking of going up there if I can't make a day trip up to Strawberry over the weekend.
Have not been up there for about 3 weeks but I noticed that each time I went up in the boat that the fish were going deeper and out away from the shoreline out of reach of casting.
The only exception was on the West side of the resevoir in the coves there were fish in casting distance from the shore.
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Hey, thanks for the replies from you guys. I am trying to make sure I understand the places you pointed out, so I put marks on a map. Would you confirm I got it right?
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I think I got the marks wrong. Apparently I don't recogize where I was before. Here is another one with correction.
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Starting at the dam coming from Morgan the first point that goes out by the barrier bouy and then anywhere along that shoreline and back into the first cove before the state park and marina. While I personally have not fished those for about two years in the summer, I fish them alot during ice-fishing (particularly that first point)and the guys I ice fish with do the bank too in the summer. They switch from the power-bait, ice-fly, and tube jigs we use in winter to power-bait, worm with something to float it, minniow imitators (lures/spinners) and do as well as we do in the winter. I troll my boat through those areas when I am up there and pick up a fair amount of fish anywhere from 10' down to 30'. It is harder for me to get a good presentation with this bigger boat there so I tend to go to the East side and troll along less pressured points and coves.
Look for the bigger rocks (6"-2') in diamter that are on the slope down into the water and fish around on top of and to the side of them. The fish hang around those for the minnows and other aquatics that use them for cover. Another trick is to fish on the shore that has the wind to your back as the fish feed on the terrestrials (crickets, ants, grass hoppers) and all those other things that normally annoy you when it is still air as they blow off the banks into the water. A gentler slope or funneling slope from a draw tends to work better for this as there is more surface area for the wind to pick up their food from for them. If you can catch waterever is around or mimic it, you will catch fish. If this is happening, they tend to ignore the power baits and go for the live feed that is blowing into the water.
In converting to boat fishing the "duh" factor finally hit me in that if it starts breezing and the bite turns off, go drift away from the bank using what I used to use taking advantage of the shore blow-off.
The East side is the accross from the road side. I am not sure if you can still go up to the very end and walk around a little ways to some of the steeper sloped areas still.
Hope that helps. Let us know how you do.
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