Lousy Lindon 4-3-24

[Piscophilic]

Hi Pat,

Thanks for the report, although I was hoping you would have more fun. I'm glad you got a kittie and got to see a walleye. By the water temps and your results, I would say the kitties are mostly way out in the lake still. There are always a few nonconformists though!

I SOUNDS like you had an uphill battle with all the thudding noises. 


Jon and I had planned to go out to that area this evening. Then the 30 MPH winds forecast for Friday got moved to today. We re-planned to go out early this A.M. and then Jon had something come up at work so it looks like another blustery cool week of "spring weather" will go by before I get on the pond again. If that trip holds together maybe I can give you something to read while you are not able to get out. You certainly have given that to me lots of times!

I hope for great results and a quick recovery from you eye surgery.

Thanks fer the kindly comments.  Hope Mama Nature gets back on her meds soon so we can resume fishing.  Not sure where the fish are, in this higher water.  I have done well on them at Lindon in the past as early as mid March.  But everything seems different this year.  However, I'm not sure they are out in deeper water.  They may be a lot shallower than you think.  I have caught them in less than 4' of water early in the year...in the late afternoon...after breezes blew sun-warmed surface water into a westerly or southerly facing shoreline.  

On one early trip my wife and I had to use bobbers above the shallow flooded brush to avoid snags but caught lots of cats fairly shallow.  Y'know, a lot of those bigguns are females...and they pretty much go where they want and do what they want...regardless of the logic involved.  NOW I'm in trouble.

I have had some good early trips fairly shallow under just the conditions you described and I always try to look both places. My last trip we fished in the brush in late afternoon and got 1 hit in 30 minutes. We later found them at 10:30 at night in 8-9 FOW and got 7 more in under 2 hours. I of course don't know if they were moving closer to shore from deep water or to deep water from close to shore. Figuring it out is some of the fun, but I've learned that every time you think you have them figured, they fool you.