Devils Lake Saturday

[trollin4trout]

Willis

Interesting reading your live report! We trolled by there once in the morning without a hit(there were a bunch of dock fishers-so we couldn't get too close) and we just kept right on going. We go did go right in that little corner to the left of the dock where they were last year, but nothing. Haha- we totally missed them- even knowing that's where they should be! We did catch one stocker right off the shallow point in front of the ramp, but we trolled around that area for a half hour with no more hits.

We moved on and searched the lake high and low for those darned stockers! We knew how small a spot they could hunker down in- but we couldn't find 'em. You should have seen our GPS trace of the lake for the day! We COVERED it!

Trolled 'till about 2pm without another hit and then saw a boat hook and lose a nice fish in the "middle" of the lake. So we stayed in that area and soon cousin Mike hooked and lost a nice one- than 10 minutes later hooks and loses another nice one(these were not stockers). Then right after that I got a 14 inch native. Then it went completely dead again until 5:30 when Mike finally landed one! A 19 incher!

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w110/jnbradley3/19inchDevils032109web.jpg

Look at the hole in its side!

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w110/jnbradley3/19inchholeDevils032109web.jpg

I caught another 14 inch native a short while after that and we trolled 'till it was near dark with nothing else.

Had to take as seagull pic while the fishing was slow- actually I has time to take about 100 seagull pics!

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w110/jnbradley3/seagull1web.jpg

The weather wa superb- a little windy but the sun shined most of the day.

Jim

[Nw dukn]

Nice fish..

[SwellRider]

Yeah nice job! my 7yr old caught one like that last year and she was excited,hopefully the fishing gets better i like fishing there.

[Willis]

yeah trollin they were getting them off the center and corner of the dock in the same spot as last year. they sent me picks to verify they ended up with 2 limits of good size fish. I will be down monday to wed and will report if I get a chance.

[newbergfishjunkie]

The hole kinda looks like a canine bite from a sea lion but they also generally leave other teeth marks as well...interesting. Any other ideas?

[comeherefish]

Nice one!!!:thisbig:

[P8ntballrman]

also was on the lake most of saturday ( black & white 14'er ). We started trolling from hospital point to the red house early in the morning with only one hook up on a blue/silver spinner...... lost the fish at the boat. went back toward the state park and trolled the west side of the lake and picked up a couple of nice natives that had some great fight in them.

Spent the afternoon anchored in one of the inlets on the north side of the lake and picked up 2 16"-18" chromers on powerbait that were very tasty on the fire at camp. didn't get into any stockers.... we actually thought the lake wasn't stocked until we heard the report from the dock when we left sunday morning.:passout:

[blacktailaddict]

it was stocked earlier in the week, it takes about a week for the trolling to start picking up and the fish spread out a little. I'll be on the hunt thursday looking for them

[Willis]

Fished the lake Monday during the driving rain storm, Fished regata park off the dock all fish caught on lures hot lure was size one rainbow blue fox, caught some on roostertails and z ray also other blue fox combos, between 4 of us we landed 30 fish or so with 10 good size kept all in 1 1/2 hour. south side of dock was the ticket we had fish chasing lures up to the dock. went back today and only had 3 hits on lures and no fish landed we worked it hard all up and down the dock for 3 hours using power bait etc and lures, saw 1 fish caught early and then dead went to luch and came back and still no fish after a hour we left, did see fish jumping in the cove to the right of the dock but could not get to them due to private property. saw a guy on his dock land 5 in short order I asked to fish it with the kids and he told me no, the fish are there they are just moving day by day but still not to far from the dock, on the way out of town we stoped by holmes road park and threw spinners for 15 min and landed one stocker that we let swim. With the extra 6k in fish being stocked this year it should be good fishing in may and june.