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Fall Fishing at Yankee Hill

9/14/2020

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Slow fishing morning amongst the California smoke. Hit the shoals hard with a bonus 22” wally caught off a breakwater tip on jig and leech. Shoals produced a mere 3 largemouth, 2 crappie and 2 white bass.  Yep white bass in Yankee, mostly small but they are growing!  Water on the surface was like green paint, not pretty!  Hope the wind blows or this lake is setup for a ugly fish kill!
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22” wally hit the jig and leech, SE Nebraska wally are “racy” compared to the robust, butterball alewife and gizzard shad prey fed wally in the irrigation reservoirs. Taste is the same with hot grease and a beer batter!
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Yep, Yankee Hill covered in algae, thick as pudding and green as a goard! Please sun do the “shine” and wind, please blow for some mixing ! This lake needs some help!
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Sun is coming up and it has that glow to it, California and Oregon wildfires! Cough cough!
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Anyone bring a paint brush?
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We caught A LOT of big fish at Merritt Reservoir!

7/28/2020

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Nice Channel Catfish caught on a small jig and crawler.
Nice Smallmouth Bass caught by Mom, she can still catch fish at 86 yrs. young!
Big C. Catfish caught on a small jig and crawler.
Big smallmouth taking a leech in 3’ of water at Merritt.
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Merritt Reservoir Morning and Evening Trips

7/27/2020

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Very nice morning and evening trips with friends! We started by anchoring up in 5’ of water and casted 1/32 oz. jigs with ½ crawlers and leeches.  Both morning and evening fishing catching numerous small Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Drum, Bluegill and Yellow Perch. We casted jigs into shallow waters<5’ depths and jigged them back to the boat. Also placed a dead rod/dead stick in a rod holder to dangle live bait just off the bottom for the followers. We caught some nice Smallmouth Bass and a nice mess of Bluegill using this technique, no keeper size Walleye but we had fun. Never got the Walleye Chop winds but a nice morning of fishing at Merritt reservoir. Evening trip had some winds but not a good Walleye Chop, picked up one keeper Walleye to stink the skillet!
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Big Channel Catfish caught on light tackle.
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Walleye and Bass at Lake Wanahoo

7/22/2020

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Very nice evening trip Wednesday to Wanahoo with my lovely daughter Shanna Rose and the boat! We tested the trolling rods first as we hooked on a couple crankbaits, a # 5 Flicker shad and a #5 Rapala X-Rap. We spooled out 125’ of line on the line counter reels and pulled them in the 2.5- 2.7 mph range. We first hooked up with a small “hammer handle” northern pike right out of the gate! Poorly hooked as I lost him right at the boat which was great, I didn't have to handle that slimmy little guy! Next fish caught, Shanna hooked into a good fish, ended up being a big largemouth bass, she had fun tightening the drag as it made numerous head shakes. It stayed deep to the very end when eventually she got him to the boat. Very nice Wanahoo Bass measuring 19½”, great body condition likely scaled at 5 lbs, good looking bass. We finished up trolling the crankbaits with a 16.5” walleye, an eater, caught on the colorful flicker shad. Relaxed fishing- trolling crankbaits at Wanahoo!

Sun was dropping so we changed tactics and anchored up off a few trees, we finesse fished with the light, 5- 8 mph SE winds fishing with Satra special rigs tipped with Euro Nightcrawlers and used jigs tipped with leeches. Dipped in amongst the trees and off the points near deep water drop offs. Of course we used the ultralight rods and light line, we had some luck catching Bluegill to 8” and a few ugly Bullheads in mostly 10-12’ depths. Sun started to set so we packed up, we had fun catching fish at Lake Wanahoo.

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Walleye Chop at Wanahoo

6/23/2020

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Short Tuesday evening trip with the daughters to Lake Wanahoo. Trip was to focus on the Walleye as we had a good Walleye chop going from the North winds. Saw lots of baitfish on the sonar suspended (likely Crappie and Bluegill). We had a bi-catch of Crappie, Bluegill and a Largemouth Bass. Two of those lovely black bullhead landed in the wally spots. More research needed at Wanahoo if fishing for Walleye! A quick trip, but a very nice evening fishing trip to Wanahoo.
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July 9th

7/9/2019

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On Sunday morning I took friends TJ and Karie to Lake Wanahoo for some fun fishing!  We started fishing by "dipping" in 9' of water.  The walleye came slow but no complaints as we were catching crappie and some really nice bluegill on jigs and leeches and crawlers.  As usual, the W eyes were finicky and we went to finesse fishing with a Satra Special rig as they seemed to be biting short!  We ended up catching 8 short walleye but had fun with them.  TJ thought he was jinxed catching walleye but he worked through it and caught  few!  Bass had Karie's number and she had fun landing 2 in the 16-18" range and 2 other hog bass took her jig into snags and pulled lose.  Guess they didn't want their photo taken with Karie ??
​I gave a demo on fishing the satra special rig and on the demo caught a small walleye. Usually don't happen like that........even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile!!!
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June 3rd - 5th

6/6/2016

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Bluegill
Channel Catfish at Maple Creek
Recent weekend fishing trip to Davis Creek and Calamus Reservoir in Central Nebraska with Jake and Chris. We caught numerous small walleye, a few white bass, and pesky drum. Our last day of the trip we loaded up and headed to Maple Creek Reservoir to see if we could find a few more, larger size walleye and more action overall. We caught walleye, c. catfish, largemouth bass, really nice bluegill, and one big bullhead (pictured) at Maple Creek. It was a nice weekend and the lakes were busy with anglers!  Don't cuss the wind it can blow even harder on these trips. Always ask for a walleye chop.
Walleye from Maple Creek
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