I arrived at the Jerry's Landing at about 7:15 in the morning. The water remained a slightly stained color all day. The weather started off nice and sunny. I first decided to drop my line off the dock and catch something underneath for about 15 min. before switching to a spinnerbait. I cast and retrieved it anywhere from near the other dock, different parts of the shoreline, and from outwards from the lake. I didn't get a bite on anything, so I decided just to have a fun day and catch sunfish. I started off with only a popper, but somebody was nice enough to give me a weighted bobber and jig. By casting near the shoreline between the docks and towards the fence line near the resort borders on the northern side, I began to catch fish. I caught roughly 150 pumpkinseed sunfish (for some reason, no bluegill at all) and 2 perch by about 2:50 or so. The pumpkin seeds ranged from 3 - 6 1/2 inches and the perch were both around 8 inches. Other people in boats had much better luck; someone brought back a 3 lb. largemouth bass and another around 80 perch. By the time I left, it was overcast and the wind was blowing; fish weren't feeding as well. It was actually a lot of fun. The community that was at the lake was very friendly and I hope to return there again to see if I can catch something better.

Anglinarcher

5/28/2008 11:54:00 AM

I don't know if there are Bluegill in Elokia now that I think of it. I only remember catching pumpkinseeds.

Paul & Sammi

5/29/2008 10:26:00 AM

We saw bluegill nests along the beach at Jerry's landing last summer so i know they are in there. But we have fished Eloika about 50 times in the last year and never caught even one bluegill.
There are loads of them upriver in Horseshoe and Fan lakes. Got some pretty big ones in Fan last year. Well, big for bluegills, 6-7inchers. Fan has a few good sized crappie too, but don't tell anyone. :)

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