Patoka or Monroe

Any reports on Patoka or Monroe from this weekend? Just looking for some general info. water temp. water color, level. If fish were caught what type of lures.



Thanks

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-05-06 AT 10:38PM (EST)[/font][p]Patoka has the Hoosier Open next week, so I would imagine the guys out fishing won't give up any information. I would think most of the guys on Patoka were practice fishing and trying to find a pattern.

I would use 6" power worms, slow presentations. I saw a bass in 3ft of water yesterday, northwest corner of a decent sized strip pit, so I believe you could catch some fish right now.

We are supposed to get a nice warming trend this week with a relatively warm (55F) rain, so possibly look for incoming current into Patoka being warmer than the main lake area. I wouldn't be afraid to even fish dirty water if it was significantly warmer than the main arm.

The main river and Youngs Creek on the far north east area of the lake, is just north of the main river arm when it comes into the lake. If we get a good rain, this area could have some warmer water. It is probably too low to get into the Youngs Creek arm, but the main river channel should be accessible.

This time of year, is very tough fishing. If you can get more than 1 day in a row on the same lake, you should be able to find something. Just going for an afternoon trip is going to be tough to figure them out, because they probably aren't moving.

Water temps on patoka saturday ranged from 44 to 49 degrees,it was 44 around 7 a.m. and really didn't find warmer water till late in the aftenoon,from about 3 o'clock on.Water is clear on the main body and the fishing was tough,should get better though if the warm weather comes in later this week as predicted.

Anyone know what ramp the Hoosier open will launch from At Patoka?
Any idea how many boats might be fishing?

USUALLY THEY LAUNCH OUT OF THE SOUTH RAMP.

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Mar-06-06 AT 10:56AM (EST)[/font][p]Newton-Stewart South Ramp.

$150 bucks per team.

[url]www.hoosieropen.com[/url]

If you don't have time to pre-fish it, you will probably be handing someone your money.

I haven't heard of anyone really on a pattern yet.

They'll have 180 boats and you can rest assured that a majority of them will be there on Saturday trying to figure something out. So, there will be a ton of pressure on Patoka this weekend. If you are looking to do some fun fishing and you don't like a lot of pressure, then you might want to consider another spot.

TI

THERE WILL BE AT LEAST 150 BOATS THE FOLOWING WEEKEND FOR THE IBF

Right now it don't look too bad for the Patoka rainfall area, so if you still plan on going I would go to Patoka on Saturday.

They only show about .3 to .6 inches of rain so far out of the first storms going through, and might git some more tomorrow.

I think Monroe gotta lot more water into it so far 1 to 1.5 inch and more to come. I bet it gets real muddy by Saturday.

Anybody have a water temp on Monroe? I bet this rain might be warming it up a bit.