Echo Lake Bass Fishing Reports

getthenet · September 14, 2004, 07:16:22 PM

Hi all........Fished Echo this Sunday...Started out bad....Spent some time with grandchildren, that was nice........Ended up catching 5 nice ones. LM that is on Sanko , smoke color in 7-10 ft. of water.

Mike Cork · September 15, 2004, 01:10:16 AM

Glad to hear you are still catching fish.... Was your sanko weighted? or weighless?

getthenet · September 17, 2004, 07:27:19 PM

Hi Mike.........I put a very small weight on it. (split shot)

Mike Cork · September 17, 2004, 09:53:35 PM

Do you put it close to the senko or up the line a bit? I know so many questions, but I just don't catch fish with a senko and am trying to figure it out. Seems like I do a lot of things wrong

getthenet · September 18, 2004, 04:13:52 PM

If there is wind I use a weight, but its better without one, they fall better. I also learned this yr. to fish them slow. I was always too quick to retrive. I was having truble this yr. setting the hook too but found that its also me not keeping an eye on my line. I'm getting better!

good luck to you!

Tritonrob · April 07, 2005, 12:00:46 PM

Fish Echo lake today for 3 hours. Felt good to be back on the water. I managed to catch 4 bass and some perch. All the bass were keepers with one going around 3 1/2 pounds which was the first one I caught. I caught all of them one my favoirte spring lure a jerk bait. I was using a Lucky Craft Pointer 78 in Aurora gold. They all came with the boat being in 12 feet of water and casting to the shore. Fish all came out of about 6 feet of water. Finally.

getthenet · April 07, 2005, 05:45:44 PM

Hey Rob...You beat me there. Glad to hear you got out soo soon..Where did you put in? Is the water up?

Tritonrob · April 07, 2005, 10:44:31 PM

I put in at the State Ramp. Yes water is plenty high

Tritonrob · April 12, 2005, 11:53:00 AM

Got back out this morning with a good friend for a few hours. We absolutly with them up with jerk baits. Got around 25 bass all keepers. One weighing 6-1. What a nice fish. Was windy and water temp was 53. All fish were caught on jerk baits in 7 feet of water.

getthenet · April 13, 2005, 03:14:17 PM

Husband David just finished with surgery things went well so now we are looking forward to the day WE CAN GET OUT THERE. Thanks for the report.

Tritonrob · April 13, 2005, 10:47:23 PM

Glad things went well hope you can get on the water soon.

MotherNature · April 13, 2005, 11:15:26 PM

Sounds like you had a great day, I hope soon we will be seeing a lot of fishing reports coming from your neck of the woods....

Glad to hear that David is out and doing good. Keep us up to date on his progress..

getthenet · May 10, 2005, 08:30:14 PM

Sorry guys fished Echo Lake today instead of entering the contest.....

I caught 2 keepers...One on a tube and one on a Senko that

was actually out, and NO

today......but there is more coming.......so now do you understand? I'll catch the contest on another Tue.

Tritonrob · May 10, 2005, 11:22:55 PM

What time were you out on the lake? I was actually there till around noon time. There was only one othe boat there while I was there was that you and your husband?

getthenet · May 11, 2005, 01:43:29 PM

No I work until 1pm.....We got out there about 3pm and fished until 6:30. You will see our Nitro at the dock on the campground side. We use it there and take our Ranger everyplace else. Sorry we missed you!

Tritonrob · May 11, 2005, 11:05:31 PM

Is the Nitro at the campground now? I see one over there. Ok so it was someonelse that was there. I never got close enough to tell what type of boat it was. Don't know when your planning on going back but the there are a lot of fish getting ready to move on beds at Echo. Keep a close eye. They were really starting to move good when i left on Tuesday. I almost called in sick lol.

getthenet · May 12, 2005, 02:26:39 PM

We want to stay there this weekend if the weather is ok.....We saw that too did you catch anything? See you on the lake!! Yes the nitro is there at my sons dock soon there will be another boat there too, and my grandchildren will be fishing off the dock too.

Tritonrob · May 12, 2005, 10:54:23 PM

I caught 5 fish early that were staging to go on the beds. Then about noon is when i saw them moving up. I caught 4 fish off the beds and new if I stayed or started looking harder for bedding bass I wouldn't have went to work.

Mike Cork · May 12, 2005, 10:59:56 PM

Wow, I don't know if I would still have a job or not

If they were moving up I would have been on the hunt for a hawg. Thanks for the update

Tritonrob · May 13, 2005, 07:35:35 AM

Mike I thought about it staying long and hard. Since the new company took us over 22 people have been let go. 13 a week ago alone so with that in mind I went to work.

Mike Cork · May 13, 2005, 07:43:36 AM

WOW

Well the good news is that you are valuable to the company and after lay offs like that they sure are going to keep you

Got to have a job to fish, at least until you make fishing your job

getthenet · May 15, 2005, 06:47:05 PM

Hello....We stayed at Echo this weekend caught a few largest was 2.8 she came off a bed. Things were slow very slow. The weather we are having lately must be the reason. Fishing with the grandchildern was fun!!

Tritonrob · May 15, 2005, 08:01:57 PM

Weere you and your husband on the lake on Saturday? If saw I saw you fishing around the island. I got 4 off the beds and 7 others just off. I worked a slob off the island that was on a bed for 2 hours never did get the fish to bite.

getthenet · May 16, 2005, 01:09:08 PM

Yes Rob we were out there Fri.,Sat. and Sun. What was you biggest catch? Were you in a tourney?

Tritonrob · May 16, 2005, 11:00:41 PM

No not in the tourney. Didn't think it was fair because I ws there on Saturday. I fish Sand Dam or Smith and Sayles on Sunday. I got a 5-9 there on Saturday.