Jill and I camped at Monroe this weekend and fished about five hours yesterday. Conditions were as follows:
Partly cloudy, wind 10-15mph
Water temps 78-82 degrees
Depth between 12-18 FOW
Fishing a wind blown point with 1/8 oz roadrunners, orange and bubblegum
Area: Moores Creek
Most of you know we have struggled here in Indiana getting on the fish. I put my thinking cap on yesterday and decided to do some searching before wetting a line. We located what we though was a small pod of walleye on the windward side of the point, waypointed it on the gps, went up wind and did a couple of drifts through. I caught a short, and was encouraged. Next drift we had the first double of our lives (including our fishing in Canada), but both were too close to the 14" minimum to keep, so back they went. Ended up with five between us, biggest being 14.75". Nothing to brag about, but I now have some much needed confidence that I had lost last year.
We planned on fishing again today, but I didn't get the sun screen on in time yesterday and am totally fried, so we packed up this morning and came home. We really wish we could have went back out today, because we didn't get to fish the end of the point yesterday like we wanted. A guy in a bass boat stuck right on the end of the point all day. He did make a nice $40k marker bouy though.
Jeff
