05-09-2019, 03:02 PM
Sounds like you guys had a great trip. I'm jealous of your walleye success and that nice cat!
Three of us were down there fishing at GHB May 1 - 3 as well. I'm pretty sure we saw you guys out there. We were in one of the two red Lunds. Were you the guys shining spotlights around the south end of GHB trying to find your campsite one evening? Someone was flashing their lights all around our camp one evening.
I posted my report at this link,https://wayneswords.net/threads/ghb-area-5-1-5-3.2769/ complete with photos.
We targeted mainly striper, LMB, SMB, crappie and bluegill. We also caught catfish, green sunfish and walleye incidentally. We tried trolling for stripers with no luck. Jigging with spoons tipped with striper belly meat (or not) was quite productive in 20 to 40 feet (this also produced a couple walleye and one crappie). We also got several striper casting red Norman cranks, white Fat Albert twisters, and crappie jigs from 2 to 10 feet deep along shore. We were very impressed with the crappie we found ranging from about 11" to 15" which was my new PB (see photo at link above). We also found a great bunch of big bluegill many of which were 9 - 10" long, which is why we targeted them. We definitely had the best luck when we got off the main channel and found cleaner water, even a few extra inches of clarity helped.
We kept all the striper, walleye and catfish we caught and many of the SMB and bluegill. All LMB and crappie were released for the benefit of the population.
A fantastic trip! I kept track of my fish numbers and estimating how the others did in comparison to me, I estimate we put 274 fish (107 were mine) in the boat in 3 days of intense fishing.
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Three of us were down there fishing at GHB May 1 - 3 as well. I'm pretty sure we saw you guys out there. We were in one of the two red Lunds. Were you the guys shining spotlights around the south end of GHB trying to find your campsite one evening? Someone was flashing their lights all around our camp one evening.
I posted my report at this link,https://wayneswords.net/threads/ghb-area-5-1-5-3.2769/ complete with photos.
We targeted mainly striper, LMB, SMB, crappie and bluegill. We also caught catfish, green sunfish and walleye incidentally. We tried trolling for stripers with no luck. Jigging with spoons tipped with striper belly meat (or not) was quite productive in 20 to 40 feet (this also produced a couple walleye and one crappie). We also got several striper casting red Norman cranks, white Fat Albert twisters, and crappie jigs from 2 to 10 feet deep along shore. We were very impressed with the crappie we found ranging from about 11" to 15" which was my new PB (see photo at link above). We also found a great bunch of big bluegill many of which were 9 - 10" long, which is why we targeted them. We definitely had the best luck when we got off the main channel and found cleaner water, even a few extra inches of clarity helped.
We kept all the striper, walleye and catfish we caught and many of the SMB and bluegill. All LMB and crappie were released for the benefit of the population.
A fantastic trip! I kept track of my fish numbers and estimating how the others did in comparison to me, I estimate we put 274 fish (107 were mine) in the boat in 3 days of intense fishing.
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