MARCH 2000


Name: Walleye Wally
e-mail address: walliwally@aol.com
Date: 3-27
Weather conditions: at first cam then windy
Location: Spruce Run Res.
Fishing method: shiners
Depth of presentation: 2-3'
Water depth: 5'
Type of lure:
Type of bait: shiners
Water temperature: 48*
Species:  Other
Size: 22"-26"
Total caught: 3


Comments: Needed a change of scenery & went for pike in Spruce Run. It was slow at first, picked up for one hour around noon, and then nothing. Walt

Name: Chris Gatley
e-mail address: csgatley@hotmail.com
Date: 3/25/00
Weather conditions: sun, no wind
Location: ranger cove, south tower and north shore
Fishing+method: trolled surface for rainbow and wire for lakers
Depth of presentation: surface to 130
Water depth: all
Type of lure: green spoon and hot shot
Type of bait: n/a
Water temperature: n/a
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 3 @ 17'
Total caught: 3
 

Comments: Trolled from 5:30 til 8 am. Trolled for lakers from 8 til 2pm.  Lost several fish at 120' on wire.


Name: Arthur
e-mail address: Pike186@aol.com
Date: 3/25
Weather conditions: 56-70 degrees
Location: North Tower
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: 85 ft.
Water depth: 85 ft.
Type of lure: n/a
Type of  bait: Live Shiner
Water temperature: n/a
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 23 1/4"
Total caught: 1
 

Comments: I fished all day, just bought an outboard, so we were trying it out most if the time. We went to North Tower, nothing there, down to 'campers cove', nothing there, South Tower, nothing and all around. At least we used our outboard. All I got was one Laker. It was huge. It was really fat, and was heavy. 


Name: Dan
e-mail address: dsoudant@aol
Date: 3/23
Weather conditions: 65 and gorgeous
Location: Ranger cove and boat ramp
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: 4-15 ft
Water depth: 4-15ft
Type of lure:
Type of bait: shiners
Water temperature: unknown
Species: Brown Trout
Size:
Total caught: 0
 

Comments: Beautiful shortsleeve spring day. Not much action (0 bites in 2 hrs) but saw 4 break water and one 13" brown caught.


Name: Walleye wally
e-mail address: walliwally@aol.com
Date: 3/23
Weather conditions: nice
Location: north shore
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: 75'
Water depth: 75-85'
Type of lure: black&silver flutter spoon
Type of bait:
Water temperature: 40-44*
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 22-23"
Total caught: 5
 

Comments: Also caught a rainbow 17"& 1 brown. Caught all lakers pulling wire. Had my chance 0n the grand daddy of the lakers, but I blew it. Hook pulled out. Try again some other day. Walt


Name: Chris Gatley
e-mail address: csgatley
Date: 3/19/00
Weather conditions: sunny, windy
Location: north tower, south tower
Fishing method: troll
Depth of presentation: all
Water depth: all
Type of lure: silver/green
Type of bait: spoon
Water temperature:
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 1 @ 23"
Total caught: 1
 

Comments: Fished from 7am to 3:30.  Trolled plugs along shoreline.  Had several fish hit.  Trolled open water and had two hits on the surface over 50-100 of water. Laker came from 65' over 65'.


Name: Chris Gatley
e-mail address: csgatley@hotmail.com
Date: 3/18/00
Weather conditions: little breeze and cold
Location: south
Fishing method: troll
Depth of presentation: 65-80
Water depth: 65-80
Type of lure: spoon - black/purple
Type of bait: n/a
Water temperature: unsure
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 2@18" and 1@34"
Total caught: 3

Comments: Trolled shoreline for rainbows and browns but no luck.  Used rapalas, small spoons and spinners.  Fished from about 7 am to 10:30.


Name: Mike Golabek
e-mail address: n/a
Date: 3/15/00
Weather conditions: sunny morning very windy afternoon warm
Location: all aroud shoreline
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: flatline two feet?
Water depth: ten to fifteen
Type of lure: panter martin-rapala-pheobe large-yozuri all worked
Type of bait: none
Water temperature: 39 degrees
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 18-20
Total caught: five

Comments: Caught seven pound pickerel!!!!!on panter martin my first pickerel in the valley! I weighed it in at Lebanon bait on official scale. I hope it is alive and swimming in his bait tank for all to see. Five rainbows and nine small browns. All rainbows were 18/20 inches and only one brown over 15 inches.what a way to get over cabin fever.


Name: Brian
e-mail address: a224@erols.com
Date: March 15
Weather+conditions: sunny, ice in the morning, 65 by 11am
Location: all over
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: surface-85ft
Water depth: 10ft-120ft
Type of lure: everything under the sun
Type of bait: lures
Water temperature: 36-38
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size:
Total caught: zero

Comments: fished from 6am-1130am without a hit. can't remember the last time that had happened. I used everything I had, downriggers, lead core, flat line and steel. NOT A BITE!!!!!! Friends Bill and Jim had good luck weekend
before with 6 rainbows all over 20inches. Saw a few fish on the graph but no takers. Still a beautiful day on the water..................


Name: Joseph Kresefsky
e-mail address: jkresefsky@hotmail.com
Date: 3/14/2000
Weather conditions: Sunny, mild, and fairly calm with a slight west wind.
Location: Left of boat launch.
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: Approx. 7 feet
Water depth: Approx. 9 feet
Type of lure: n/a
Type of bait: Mealie/Marshmallow combo.
Water temperature: 40 degrees
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 4 Browns 14", 1 Brown 15", 1 Rainbow 14", 1 Rainbow 18"
Total caught: Seven

Comments: Wow! What a day! Finally! It was one of those days that you always hear about but never experience. Well I finally got to experience one. What a blast. Folks, I tell ya I couldn't stop the fish from biting. At one point all five of my poles had a hit at the same time. I arrived there at 7:30am left at 10:30am. I had over twenty-five hits, caught 7. This truly was a day of Catchin'. By the way, all were set free for another day, and I praise God for the blessing of this day. Ahhhhh...


Name: Chris Gatley
e-mail address: csgatley@hotmail.com
Date: 3-11-00
Weather conditions: rain,wind and nasty
Location: Middle
Fishing method: troll wire
Depth of presentation: 65 feet
Water depth: 65 feet
Type of lure: silver/green
Type of bait: spoon
Water+temperature: unsure
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 23 in
Total caught: 1

Comments: lost two getting use to wire


Name: Joseph Kresefsky
e-mail address: jkresefsky@hotmail.com
Date: 03/13/2000
Weather conditions: Sunny and very windy.
Location: The Point
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: 28 feet
Water depth: 30 feet
Type of lure: n/a
Type of bait: Shinner's and mealie/marshmallow combo
Water temperature: 38 degrees
Species: Brown Trout
Size: 1 Brown 14" and 1 Laker 20"
Total caught: 2

Comments: Action was very slow starting. I had eight hits in a total of 5 hours. The under current must have changed at around 11:30 am because I snagged up over 15 times from 11:30 to 12:30. Sometimes I swear that there are scubba divers down there messing with my line. Freakin' Amazing!


Name: Stan Lyskowski
e-mail address: stiz@injersey.com
Date: Sat 3-11-00
Weather conditions: cloudy, drizzle early then steady rain
Location: along the north shore from the point toward the back
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: 10 to 20 feet
Water depth: 15 to 45 feet
Type of lure: J-9 rapala's & one shinner on a flat line
Type of bait:
Water temperature: 36.5
Species: Rainbow Trout
Size: 1 @ 15" and 1 @ 17"
Total caught: 2

Comments: Fished from 7 AM to 10:30 AM. Both rainbows went for trolled rapala's (1 on a perch color and the other on a black top & gray bottom)


Name: Walleye Wally
e-mail address: walliwally@aol.com
Date: 3-9-00
Weather conditions: foggy
Location: along the shore
Fishing method: trolling
Depth of presentation: 15-30'&70-85'
Water depth: 85'
Type of lure: rapalla & flutter spoon
Type of bait:
Water temperature: 38.4
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 22"-27"
Total caught: 9

Comments: Started to fish at 7:30Am and it was foggy, so I decided to flatline along the shore. Caught 2 rainbows & 1 brown up to 201/4". When the fog lifted I started to pull wire, and caught 6 lakers up to 27". Three of them where keeper size.


Name: Joseph "Hey Swiz" Kresefsky
e-mail address: jkresefsky@hotmail.com
Date: 03/04/2000
Weather conditions: Sunny, west wind, and very cold.
Location: The Launch and the Point.
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: All the way down.
Water depth: Very
Type of lure: I found a "Baby Trout Rapala."
Type of bait: Mealies, Minnows, and Yellow Power Bait.
Water temperature: 38 degrees
Species: Brown Trout
Size: 15"
Total caught: 1

Comments: 5 Hits, One run in, top of the ninth.  Oh, sorry, wrong sport.  I had 5 hits, and two were within 10 minutes after I arrived.  I thought it was going to be a great day of cathin'.  I hooked up about an hour later to a the Brown.  Good fighter.  After that nothing.  I look at it this way...there's only one thing that beats a day of fishing, and that's a day of catching. For me, Saturday wasn't that day, but I still got to go fishing, and That Is The Best!


Name: MIKE
e-mail address: pt1009@aol.com
Date: 3/4/00
Weather conditions: sunny and moderate wind
Location:
Fishing method: bait, trolling
Depth of presentation: bottom
Water depth: 40-120
Type of lure: sutton spoon
Type of bait: shiner
Water temperature:
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 25"25"27"
Total caught: 3 lakers 1 rainbow

Comments: Fished bait till 12 not even a hit. We started trolling and as we were setting the first rod a rainbow hit. It was about 19". We caught three lakers off the same ridge all were decent size 25"-27" long I  guess we should have started trolling first..... its a good thing the water is clouding up with this new water there pumping in I just hope it stays this way.


Name: Pete&Bill
e-mail address: boatbuddy2@aol
Date: 3/4/00
Weather conditions: 40s Windy
Location: sunny shoreline
Fishing method: Casting plugs and spoons
Depth of presentation: 4-6 foot
Water depth: 14 feet
Type of  lure: J-11 Rapala, Husky Jerk and phoebe
Type of  bait: none
Water temperature: cold
Species: Brown Trout
Size: 15-18 inches
Total caught: 7

Comments: All browns caught shallow.  Most were caught on the Husky Jerk fished like you would for bass. Best day yet at the Valley.


Name: Chris Bar
e-mail address: www.bmxkidd77@aol.com
Date: 3/4/00
Weather conditions: 40's windy
Location: The cove on the opposite side of rangers
Fishing method: Bait
Depth of presentation: ?
Water depth: ?
Type of lure: n/a
Type of bait: Shiners and worms
Water+temperature: ?
Species:  Other
Size: o
Total caught: o

Comments: Had 1 bite and that was it fished for about 31/2 hours and that was it just 1 bite. A lot of guys out on the boats today the lake is fully thawed and the launch ramp is open. Counted about 20 boats on the lake.


Name: WALLEYE WALLY
e-mail address: walliwally@aol.com
Date: 3-1-00
Weather conditions: nice day
Location: all over
Fishing method: trolling & jigging
Depth of presentation: 85'-120'
Water depth: 85-130'
Type of lure: silver & green flytter spoons & jigs
Type of bait:
Water temperature: 37*
Species: Lake Trout
Size: 20"
Total caught: 2

Comments: With all the new water coming in, plus a nice day with no wind, I tought  I'll have a field day. I fished the So.Tower  with 3 boats already there (none of them caught anything) I went to fish between the towers and caught 2. Went to the north shore jigging, found a lot of fish but they where not responding at all to my offerings. Finally I hooked one, but he got off. WALT

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