Where did all the fish go? Cedar Lake Thursday June 5th 2008.

Fri, Jun 6, 2008

After a great start to the fishing season this year, the last week (especially last night) has got me wondering “where did all the fish go?” Early season jigging was phenomenal this year (black and blue 1/4 ounce cabin creek spider jigs), however bottom feeding fish are now few and far between. Their beds now lay baron on the lake floor with no gilled gaurdians to be found nearby.

Switching to a dark colored wacky rigged senko has provided some results from the lock jawed largemouths over the last couple weeks, but even that has failed to provide a consistent bite the last few days. After about an hour of fruitless casting with my wacky rigged senko, only landing 3 or 4 fish, I turned to my trusty grey and orange yozuri banana boat for some top water action. An hour or so of “walking the dog” along brush piles, rocky coastline, docks, and submerged islands only produced 7 or 8 strikes and 4 fish, of which only one was of the keeper variety.

My fishing partner for the evening had a similar outcome throwing everything in his tackle bag: texas rigged senkos, jigs, spinnerbaits, zoom lizards, and superflukes. I believe his total tally was in the 3-4 fish range for the evening.

I spoke with only two other fishermen last night regarding their fishing fortune. They stated they had been experiencing a strong bite on pearl zoom super flukes worked briskly along the shoreline in 2-3 feet of water. My copycat experience yielded nothing last night, which confirms my feelings of always go with your gut, not the advice of a boasting angler.

Hopefully the warm weather this weekend (it is supposed to hit 90) will bring the fish closer to the surface in the pre dusk hours, and the smallmouth and largemouth top water bite will pick up. If that happens, the next report will likely be titled “I found where all the fish went!”