Don, how was water clarity? And what were water temps?

Hi Andrew,

We launched at Donners and in his calm bay, we noticed some kind of bloom appeared to be going on as there was a coating of green slim on the water. Once out in the flowage, with the ever present wind, didn't see any of that. Clarity seemed pretty normal to me, standard couple of feet. (Although we launched at Donners, we had to pull out at Sportsman). Water temp as we left was
57°.

I don't normally fish deep water at the TFF. I've caught fish in 26' of water (last fall), but I'd rather find active fish ready to feed, and those are usually much shallower. On this trip, we caught our walleyes in water between 5' and 12' deep. We do a lot of casting and the tackle that produced the best were Shad Raps -#5 and #7, Bomber Model A's, Hot n Tots, and Spoonbill Rebels (I paint these to be Clown colored - actually carry yellow and red spray paint in the boat as I love that color on this tainted water). Of course I'm targeting walleyes.