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By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 1/17/2009
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/17/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We finally made it out of the snow and out on to the ice today. Fished from about 2:30 until 5 pm out from the public launch. The road is bare and dry and the lot well plowed. Lake ice is excellent n...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 9/13/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/12/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a perfect day for fishing, or just about anything else, upper 70's, light breeze and blue sky. Much nicer than our last visit. The weeds have broken up some from their summer peak. There are f...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 9/2/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the water about 5:30. There was a stiff breeze from the north and it was very cool. By the time it was dark it felt more like October than august. We caught 1 fair sized bass in the first 2 hou...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 8/9/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/9/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Eloika was not very kind to us in June. Nothing like last year was. We went out 3 times and got 6 perch each time in 3-4 hours of fishing. Slow was an understatement. We hadn't even been back in 4 w...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 8/9/2008
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We spent 3 days camping, fishing and panning for gold in the mountains around Pierre Lake this week. Our fishing rods saw a lot more action than the gold pans. We did find a little gold in one creek....
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a perfect evening for fishing. We trolled for trout the first hour and hooked up with 5 rainbows. All were small, between 8 and 11 inches, and were caught on a super duper lure and Sammi's home...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 6/17/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2008
Hot Spots: 1
It was our first trip to Diamond this year and it was a perfect day for fishing. The wind was light, the sun was bright and there were 8-10 other fishing boats on the lake. There were only a couple ...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We arrived at 4 pm to find the parking lot nearly full. A lot of the people seemed to be there for "opening weekend". No need to wait. Eloika is a year round lake. We did see a couple trucks we reco...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 4/17/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
The ice broke up on Tuesday. The wind pushed the last of it to the north end and today it is all gone. We had a few hours today to sneak away and take the boat out for the first time this year. We la...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 2/27/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/24/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We fished from 3:30 to 5:30 straight out 200 yards from the public launch and pulled out 14 fish. 7 perch, 4 pumpkinseeds and 3 pickerel. They were biting good when we arrived and continued until dusk...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 1/19/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I counted 22 vehicles at the launch today and 53 people on the lake. Most I have ever seen there. No more slush on top. It has all refrozen and there is now 10+ inches of solid ice. Unfortunately, the...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 1/3/2008
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
We had dinner with some friends who live near Fan Lake on New Years day, so we decided to stop off at our favorite lake for a couple hours on the way. Sammi had never seen a frozen lake before, havi...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 10/24/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water a little after 3 pm. It was a beautiful clear sunny day and in the low 60's. Fished for bass for the first hour without even one strike. So we switched to jigs and bobbers and got a few ...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 10/16/2007
Species:
Rating: 5
Fished: 10/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We have fished Eloika at least a half dozen times since our last report. We went out this past Friday, Saturday and Monday from 4:30 until 6:30 pm each day. We split our fishing time between top wat...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 9/17/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/16/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We fished for two hours both tonight and last night. No one else was fishing the lake but us on either night. The weather was perfect Saturday but the wind was gusty today. Due to my amazing success...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 9/10/2007
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
This evening was one of those rare occasions when I set out with the intention of catching bass. And rarer yet is the fact I actually caught 3! And lost 3 more. All were small ones under 10 inches tho...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 8/25/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time we ever went to Downs. The State fishing pamphlet list it as having a public launch. It doesn't. The only launch is from the..ahem... less than 5 star resort there, on a steep and warped ol...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 8/13/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the last 2 hours before dark. First hour was a little slow. We got 2 pan size bass and one crappie is all. Then we found a school of hungry crappies and we had the best hour of fishing yet this...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 8/1/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/31/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went out the last two evenings from about 7 - 9 pm for more Crappies. I'm happy to say they are still there and biting good. We caught 14 with only 2 under the 9 inch minimum. Lost 6 more nice ones be...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/30/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Went back for more perch. It was sunny and warm but quite windy. Launched about 6:30 into the wind and waves just under what our little boat can handle. We spent the first hour or so cursing at our t...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/27/2007
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Sammi thought Diamond lake might be good fishing in the evenings for perch, and we hadn't done that end of the day there yet, so I said sure why not. Sitting in the boat anywhere beats sitting on th...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/25/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We fished yesterday evening from 7:30 until 9:30 and again this evening from 6 to 9:30. Caught a total of 30 fish. We were mainly after crappie again. We got 10 ranging up to 11 1/2 inches and only 2...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/23/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/22/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We launched a little before 9 am and started fishing on the east side across from the launch. We had never been there before and all we had to go on was a lake map and a few tips we read here. We star...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/15/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/15/2007
Hot Spots: 0
We read some reports here of some good trout fishing at Diamond Lake so we decided to give it a try. I hadn't been on this lake since I was a kid fishing with my Grandpa in the late 60's.
We lau...
By: Paul & Sammi
Posted: 7/14/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/11/2007
Hot Spots: 0
My fishing rod sat gathering dust for several years until this past June when free fishing weekend came around again. During my stay on dry land, I met and married a wonderful woman from England. She...