Heading up north of Alamo to pick up my boat and plan to fish Lake Nesbitt for the afternoon on Friday. Has anyone had any experience fishing for crappie or LMB up there? I hear there are good bass numbers in there but the size is small. Also, anyone know if you can launch a 17' bass boat in there?
After that we are heading to Eagle Valley, we rented a cabin there and plan to fish the reservoir all day Sat. Eagle is always a good trip, I'll post pics and let you all know how the bite.
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I've topwatered with frogs for LMB which are between 8"-10" average. I haven't tried for crappie at the time I was up there last summer. There are also bluegill and bullhead catfish.
The lake gets really weedy during the summer and is not very deep. But a 17' bass boat will work. I saw one being launch as I was leaving the last time I was out there.
With all the weeds, topwater frogs worked well but you should also find some bass back in the bullrushes. Throw a weightless senko rigged texas style (weedless) or weed guarded jig with a craw in as far as you can into the reeds . Best to use atleast 30 lb braid ( a short flouro leader will work for jigging), a medium heavy rod and a baitcaster or conventional reel that can pull a stump to get the bass out to the weeds.
I was kayak fishing but NDOW boating regs state:
[size 3]Boating Regulations [/size][size 3]- A vessel must be operated at a speed that leaves a flat wake, but in no case may a vessel be operated at a speed in excess of 5 nautical miles per hour. All vessels and floating devices are prohibited during the waterfowl season. [/size]
There is a gate you must close behind you when you enter. Its a primative area with no drinking water and one chemical toilet inside the gate. No camp fires are allowed nor camping. The limit is 10 LMB and 10 Bullhead Catfish. There is a sort of a boat launch under the large cottonwoods on the south side of this 200 acre lake. The north end of the lake is closed to all watercraft and is marked by buoys and past the old fence line it is closed to trespass from Feb 15-Aug 15.
The area is referred to the Key Pittman Wildlife Management Area and you can read about at:
[url "http://www.ndow.org/about/pubs/wma/wma_pittman.pdf"]http://www.ndow.org/.../wma/wma_pittman.pdf[/url]
Good luck and tight lines.
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Had a great 4th of july weekend fishing up north. It was our babies first fishing trip and I can already tell she is a natural. Spent about 6 hours on Eagle Valley res Friday fishing from the boat, very little action. Only caught a couple 8-10" trout, suppa small stockers. The water temp was around 73 degrees and very murky, looks like it turning over. The few fish we did see were not worth catching, but it was a nice day out so i cant complain.
Friday evening we hit Echo Res, let me tell ya there are a TON of LMB in that place. I didnt realize there were that many, have only fished trout in there. That night we pulled in around 15 LMB in an hour before the sun set. Not real big, only 10-12" but there were a bunch. A guy across from me on the north end of the lake pulled in what was prob a 5 lb fatty, very nice fish.
We hit echo again in the morning, slightly dehydrated and very hung over. Fish were a little more picky and not hitting as much but over a few hours we managed to pull out 10 or 12. The entire time we were fish[inline IMG_0107.jpg]ing echo we were throwing Senkos, wacky rigged with no weight. Just about every color we tossed pulled in a fish but we had more action on a blue or red color worm.
Overall a great trip, we released all fish to be caught again. One thing i did notice is very few people were releasing their LMB. Most people i saw had stringer of 5 or more and several that were 3+ lbs. Hope they are actually being eaten or thats just a waste of good fish.
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Nice report Vegaskid. I've lived in NV all my live but I've never made the trip up north. I'm going to have to check it out sometime.
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