A report from earlier this week from a friend.

Steve and I fished Sunday night and Monday night. Put in about 11 PM each night. Had a big full moon. We only fished the low end of the lake and didn't go very far. Thought I had trouble with my trolling motor Sunday night and ended up sculling the boat all night. Haven't done that in 40 years. I thought that it was the switch.

We only caught 5 stripers total and no walleyes. Two of the stripers were 28+ inches and the rest smaller down to 18 inches. None on top. Only heard about 4 on the bank. Some bait working but no big masses. There was a lot of drift especially Monday night with no wind. Those coves on the south side from the island to Guffey were full of drift all the way across them. We didn't run but just putted around.

Lost a lot of sleep but ready to try again. Were about 25 trailers in the lot Sunday night when we started out and we were the last to leave at about 4 AM Monday morning. The Corp had a work barge cleaning up drift trash and logs along the dam, and in the ramp cove Sunday and Monday. They did a good job along the dam and in the ramp area. They left acres of wood chips on the water and Monday night I was worried about the water pump on the motor pulling in some chips because we had to run through acres of them.