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Uh-oh Was Right

Thursday, July 14th, 2011 | Author:

In the edit to the previous post I said uh-oh Wolf Lake was open to fishing.  I should have stayed home.  The level of the lake was where it has been the last four years when I had wonderful days fishing.  The first place was devoid of any bass action but was full of shad and 12 to 15 inch gars. I finally went down the bank and caught a 2 – 13 on a Booyah. The spot I stopped is one of my favorites on Wolf and is one that usually produces fish of a good size consistently.  A little worried I went to two more good proven places with no results and no visible bass action. This time of year on Wolf Lake the bass congregate on the underwater deltas to feed on the shad as they pass by in the slight current of the lake as it falls. I tried 12 of those places today with DT-6’s and 10’s, worms, a shakey head and a jig all to no avail. I even just fished down the bank with a Booyah and also with a DT-10 throwing from far off the bank. Nothing. I did catch a 4 3/4 cat and a 6 3/4 goo but only 2 bass. I did see one about 4 come up and just kiss my bait early this morning. In the past 4 years I have averaged 24, 47, 69 and 34 bass per trip on Wolf, fishing mostly in these spots. I say this, not to toot my horn, or to relive past accomplishments, but to say I understand Wolf Lake pretty well and it was a very different place today.  I am quizzical as to what the problem was today. Was it just a day when the fish had the lockjaw, or did I just do a bad job of fishing, or was the “small” fish kill on Wolf that was caused by the high water earlier this year larger than people thought? I hope not the fish kill because Wolf Lake was/is full of bass.  The people with houses on Wolf Lake like people here have suffered flood damage. I’m going to raise my house at Catfish. Here is a photo of a trailer on Wolf Lake that I think was raised just before it flooded. It is sitting on  timbers stacked up on both ends. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

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