patoka

[ryan5fish]

has anyone been to patoka lately? going tomorrow to bass fish

[Embrey]

yep, ill be there too. good luck,i have no advice. nothing repeats there at all lately

[ryan5fish]

ill probably try a crank and spinnerbait....im guessing there feeding alot

[Embrey]

ill probably try a crank and spinnerbait....im guessing there feeding alot

probly...just probly not anything with a line attached...lol

[Embrey]

you must have caught them all before i got there

[Moveon]

I may fish Patoka Wed and if I do any good I'll do a report about the fishing there. It's suppose to be nice this week.

I still need someone to weld the bottom of my boat. the Edge of the boat where the bottom meets the side is split and in need of some mig welding while sitting on the boat trailer.

It's accessable if you can weld while laying on your back. I had someone weld the starboard side when it cracked in the same area. This time the crack is on the port side of the boat.

[ryan5fish]

fished it Sunday and caught one about 13 in. on a jig.

[Embrey]

wow...and i thought my day sucked...mine wasnt much better...but the walleye was tasty

[GeoFisher]

I may fish Patoka Wed and if I do any good I'll do a report about the fishing there. It's suppose to be nice this week.

I still need someone to weld the bottom of my boat. the Edge of the boat where the bottom meets the side is split and in need of some mig welding while sitting on the boat trailer.

It's accessable if you can weld while laying on your back. I had someone weld the starboard side when it cracked in the same area. This time the crack is on the port side of the boat.

THere is a place on Blackiston Mill Road in Clarksville that can weld that.

I had a repair done on my old tracker.

The BIGGEST issue is if there is anything "over" where he is welding. Wires, foam, carpet, whatever........it will burn, melt, cook.....etc. etc.

Later,

Geo

[Moveon]

Patoka Lake Report for Wednesday last.

Fished the Lick Fork Area of Patoka Lake as well as sections of the Main Lake.

Some areas of the Lick Fork Area between Hoosier Hills and the Dam are very stained. Lots of sediment observed using the 1197 Down imaging sonar. We could see sediment suspended in the water column from the bottom up to about 15 ft above the bottom in 30 ft of water.

Although I'd need to conduct a temperature profile reading to verify that turn over was happening the other evidence tend to suggest that this part of the lake is not stratified anymore. The metalimnion has broken down allowing mixing of the hypolimnium with the epilimnion, IE Turn Over.

We caught some nice 1 lb and 12" long crappie in deeper water over some brush piles that we located.

Using the side-scanning sonar we were able to located quite a few brush piles away from the shoreline. Not all of them had fish though.

Our boat's water temperature gage showed the surface water's temp at around 60 deg F or slightly above that.

The crappie will be more shallow when the water surface temperatures reach 50 deg F. Or so I have been told.

We caught two nice slabs in a row using a ultralight outfit and a curly tail White Grub jig. Just threw it out and let it sink and then reel in really slow and steady. If they are there and in a biting mood they will wack it hard. Both fish we used a net to get them out of the water. Why take any chances. But then later I saw that the net had a huge hole in it. It's time to get the darning needle out and fix that hole in the fishing net.

I took the rifle up to the shooting range and had two shots right on the 1" bull eye and each was touching the other. It took me a while to finally get on paper but once I did that it was smooth sailing. Two shots hit the paper about 4.5" high and about 1/2 to the right of the center. I adjusted 18 clicks down and 2 clicks to the left and the next two shots were dead on the bulls eye. I put the gun away after those last two shots. Can't do any better than that. Oh I was shooting at 100 yards.

I had some work performed on this older gun the last two years and it's a tact driver now. Deer season opens in two days this coming Saturday. There were lots of guys sighting in their deer rifles. Many were using black power in their muzzle loaders and after they shot it was hard to see the target for a while. But the guy next to me was shooting Smokeless Powder and it was a lot cleaner burning.

[Embrey]

its looked like that for awhile. already turned over awhile back

[Moveon]

Embry:

Different parts of the lake turn over at various times. The shallow bays that are under ten feet deep don't stratify very much.

Deeper bays can still be turning over.

We fished Patoka Lake again today and fished in the same general area of Lick Fork but in a different bay this time. The back of the bay had clear water without a lot of color and we didn't see the cloudy mess on the lake bottom with the same depth finder.


What a difference a couple of days can make.

When we fished the main channel we caught more fish than in the bays.

I have a big cooler full of crappie to clean tomorrow. I hope the weather holds up and stays warm for tomorrow. I heard various reports with some calling for cold and rain and other word of mouth saying that it will stay warm and there is only a 20% chance of rain tomorrow. But the guy I heard this from I don't know as I just met him today. He could be wrong or heard some wrong info. The info I heard on the radio and TV said it's going to rain this weekend and turn colder and get down into the 50s for a high. But that was on the TV two days ago. So I don't know what to believe right now. I guess I'll find out for sure tomorrow. Either way I still need to clean these fish.

its looked like that for awhile. already turned over awhile back