Pawnee Lake Recon Trip

A morning recon trip to Pawnee Lake seeking a Saugeye or two. Long line trolled over 11’-19’’ depths with variable sizes of Rapala Shad Rap's, Walleye Divers, Flicker minnows, Thin Fins and Tail Dancers. Only caught small White perch on smaller #5 size cranks so "up-sized" to keep them off the line. Caught 8 Scourge White Perch, and 1 small Crappie after 3 hrs fishing. Slow morning of catching fish at Pawnee -- why I don’t guide clients here! 

This lake lacks anything for littoral zone habitat i.e. structure, lucky if you snag on something on the bottom of this lake, mainly open water fishing in the pelagic zone. Is and makes for a good Catfish lake. Abundant prey (small w. Perch) scattered everywhere in the water column for easy picking if you are a large predator fish like a blue or flathead catfish !   Winds never came up to the weather prediction magnitude, no Walleye chop!