Quote Originally Posted by jerkbait View Post
Hey guys,

thanks for the info went out sunday in that blustery wind and got skunked for the second time this year off to a great start. we fished from 10-30 ft. and ran a mixed bag from floating raps to thundersticks to shad raps, reefrunners, and taildancers, and also a deep minnow rap. marked a lot of fish off esky beach prolly white fish or walleyes they were mainly in the deeper stuff like 30-50 ges they could be trout or salmon not sure if the big dudes come around esky this early... we had water temps 47 around the ford to 41 around esky and no seeum. was nice to run six lines this year first time ive tried it in my little boat ran lures on the four outside lines and dragged some large suckers about a hundred ft back with snap wts. read that article about the deadbait but the water temps are still below 50 so itll be a week or two or may be more before the browns if there still around will be in...

ps had a very nice encounter with a c.o. at esky launch he was very polite and respectfull. wasnt a hassel at all and he didnt hold us up a bit as we were moving the boat out of esky and gonna launch in the ford... thanks guy.

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jerkbait
As far as the Brown fishing out of Ceader River it is nothing but down hill. 15 years ago 2 people could go out in a 14 foot boat and limit out all most all the time. You could troll in 5 feet of water and see them in front of the boat. My opinion is all the fish were caught and as the DNR were restocking fingerlings the Walleye were having a field day feeding on them. The spring Brown Trout fishing we had was world class. The DNR can plant all they want and you will not see a return as long as the Walleye are just feeding on them. I have talked with an DNR officer and this is what he said in his opinion. They plant the fingerlings in the spring and they stay schooled up in the shallows in about 5 feet of water for the first 4 weeks and here comes the Walleye just feeding on them.