Spinney 7-25 and 7-26

Water level down 5 to 8 feet. Water pretty clear, lot of floating weed. Water temp about 62-65. Did well in the back on edge of drop off from 8' to 13' FOW. White tubes and perch pattern blade.

Pike was 33". Lot of 20"-22" bows, cutbows, and browns. Diane got a MA Cutbow. We didnt get a picture because it was bleeding.

July 1st to 18th

I have mostly been hitting Chatfield. Bite has been pretty solid. Last weekend I caught 26 and Diane caught 6 from 5am till about 11am. Went out on Tuesday for a few hours in the evening and caught 8, one keeper. Today managed 20, no keepers. Shad are really going off. Water temp is 71-74. Water looks to be down 10 feet or so. Clarity is not bad. The worm and jig bite seems to have slowed. Most fish have been caught with reaction style lures - JiggingRap, Blades, and snapping plastics. Been catching in 10-16 FOW. Road bed, hump around no wake buoy line, north east ledge. Have not fished Cherry Creek in a few weeks. That lake just feels so small and so little structure to fish. I feel like I run out of spots to fish. Last time out I went with Luke and did okay. I think we got 10 or so, 1 keeper. Got my MA certificate and patch for 33"ish Carp and my 34" Laker from Granby.

CC 6/30

Fished with Luke from 5am to 10am. Had 11 in all. 1 Keeper. Did best on worms, but did catch them on blades, fluke. Missed a good one on swimbait. Small shad everywhere. Water temp about 70. Visibility very bad, water was brown and weedy. Found fish between 18 and 21 fow.

Williams For w/ Russ 6/21

Sucked. Did manage to catch some Lakers in 8' of water though! Had some pike action. Saw a lot of suspended bait, kokes or 'bows. Did not see many marks on shit house.

Cherry Creek 6/5

Fished from 6-10 before work. 17. 1 keeper, another super fat 17" and lost a big one. Did really well in around 15 FOW on the west side humps near the marina. They were really liking worms. Got the big ones on blades. When I cleaned the keeper I found a crayfish in its stomach.

Cherry Creek 6/2

Hit the creek after work. 17 Walleyes. Found most of them in 10-12 FOW on the edge of a hump in the NE corner in front of the swim beach. Did best on a gold blade and jigging raps. Water temp was about 72.

Cherry Creek and Chatfield 5/27 and 5/31

Finally had some good results at Cherry Creek. Managed 32 on the south end. Jigging Rap and blades were very productive. Lost a really nice walleye and a few others on blades, ordered some new hooks to replace the factory ones. Next afternoon at CK I only caught 9. Both days I managed one keeper. Saw huge shad spawning by the ramp in the evening. everyone else was fishing around the marina, did not seem to be catching much. Best luck was between 10-20 feet. Temp was about 68.

Hit Chatfield Sunday. Slow start. Boat traffic everywhere. Went to the no wake zone and Diane and myself caught a handful. Decided to deal with the waves and boat traffic and fished the NE corner. Caught quite a few fish. Storm came in with a lot of wind. Bite really picked up. Caught another 10 or so around the East end of the roadbed. We got 43 all together. Diane caught 22 fish!

Pueblo 5/19 to 5/22

Wore out, so just going to post notes. I love the campsite, we stayed at #52 in Arkansas loop, might try 53 next time if possible. It looks a little more private. Arkansas loop is super close to the South boat ramp.

• when water was flat calm snapping plastics did not work - seemed better with worms then
• when wind picked up I could search for pods of 3-6 fish and catch a few pretty much everytime
• caught a 19.5" super close to the bank
• Jigging rap was working well in 20mph winds
• Lost a LOT of gear. Looking into weed guards and Texas rigging - skin hooking.
• Spent way way too much time tying leaders, hoping weed guards and Texas rigging will help with this, if not I might need to ditch braid for PLO - Also, maybe a barrel swivel.. the hope would be the floro would break off and I could just retie to the barrel swivel.
  
• Use a shorter leader - 3' ?
  
• Big fish really like shallow
• SMB seems to be getting more active
• Need to try different styles of working soft plastics - snap and pendulum, tiny snaps, draging etc
• Water temp mid to high 60s
• Broke the tips of 3 rods!! (Me one, Diane two)
• Fished with Russ and Chris.
  

Granby May 16-18

Granby opened the boat ramp on Friday. 3 weeks after ice out. Water temp was about 59. Water coming up fast. First day caught a fat 30"er and a 27" and a 25". Total for the day was 21. Next day I caught a 34". Few other decent ones. 15 for the day. Last day was slow, nothing to get excited about.

Found fish right on a drop off in A-Bay. About 47-50 FOW. Also found lots of smaller fishing holding in 60ish FOW.

My neighbor has an awesome house right on Shadow Mountain Reservoir. He let us stay there for 3 days for free!

Plo 5/12

36. 4 or 5 wipers, a giant rainbow. Caught most in 20ish FOW by old boat ramp. Plastics and jigging raps. 3 keepers.

Chatfield 5/9

Water temp 58-60. Cloudy windy day. Caught 82 walleye and 3 SMB. Started with worms then switched to soft plastic on 1/4 jig head. Just popping the plastic across the bottom lightly. Tom describes it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vf1jIn4MRQ