August 23-post a fishing report

[Creel Limit Zero]

Fishing report from MD-DNR board from August 17th.  Not posted on UB board yet.

Beaver Creek - Maryland - trout

Fishing the Beaver Creek Fly-Fishing-Only Area in Washington Countyhas provided some late summer opportunities to still land a few trout.  Look for the vegatation along the banks, and deeper pools of water around sunken timber to land a few of the nice trout still available.  Japanese beetles and grasshoppers offer the best opportunities this time of the year to land one of the few trout still left.

[wareagle71]

8-22
Sugar Creek, Shelbyville IN
Rebel Craw (brown/tan/white)
About 2'
smallmouth, pumpkinseed, largemouth

[wareagle71]

8-13
Locke Bay, Ontario
Leverage Buzzbaits (white/chartreuse)
Northern Pike
Topwater, 10' or less with grassy/weedy structure

[wareagle71]

8-14
Locke Bay, Ontario
Walleye
15-20'
Nightcrawler Harness
Rocky, sandy bottom

[wareagle71]

8-5
Big Walnut Creek, Brownsburg IN
Smallmouth
2' or less
Buzzbaits 1/8oz. White
Stumps, boulders and current breaking cover

[calincalif50]

8-20

Nacimiento Lake, California

Drop shotting, 12-20 ft

76 degrees

[calincalif50]

8-20

Nacimiento Lake, California

Senkos, 12-20 ft

76 degrees

[reddman]

Water Temperature 82-85
Water Level Normal @ 299.55
Weather conditions Upper creeks clear,lower creek stained
Most Productive Bait deep cranks, c_rigged plastics
Most Productive Depth 20-25foot
Most Productive time of day some topwater early, deep late
Most Productive Cover or Structure deep brush or humps


Kerr Lake(Buggs Island)

Reddman

[Stan]

Nacimiento
Largemouth and Spots
Water Temp 76-79
Water level 15 feet low
Weather:  Night fishing, clear skies, Full moon @ 90 falling to 65
Most productive bait:  Jigs and Senkos
Most productive depth:  15 - 20 feet
Most productive time of day:  Any time after dark
Most productive cover or structure:  Steep rock bank with a brush at 10-15 feet
Aug 20

[Dug]

Evergreen Lake, IL

Current Lake Level 1 foot low.
Bass shallow and schooling Hitting on Mepps Comet, Minnows, crickets and Wax Worms.
Water Temp mid 80s
Water Clarity: Stained
Most productive depth 2-3 feet
Most Productive Time of Day: Right now, after dark due to full moon
Most Productive Structure Ric Rac and Brush.
Aug 21st

[Celliach]

Rock River Illinois August

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 76° - 80º F     Water Temp: 76° - 80º F 

Went fishing targeting bass. Caught mostly smallies 14 and 15 inches.  Crawfish colors and  either a crawfish or worm body and jig up along any rocky edges that drop fast producing well.

[Celliach]

Fox Chain of Lakes Illinois August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 86° - 90° F     Water Temp: 76° - 80º F 

  The last couple have been hard fishing with the weather. Targeting bass and throwing topwater 90% of the time while fishing shallow. Caught lots of fish in May and June but the heat and low water have slowed the bite. Fished for 8 hours on Sunday and caught 5 bass all day on a mixture of frogs and twitching an original Rapala.

[Celliach]

Kishwaukee River, Winnebago County Illinois August

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 71° - 75° F     Water Temp: 76° - 80º F 

Was useing buzzbait, twisters and leeches,waste of time.  However, caught a small walleye out of a fairly deep hole with a carolina rigged stickbait.  Nobody else out that day had any luck either.

[Celliach]

Loon Lake, Lake County, Illinois August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 81° - 88° F 



Using an Arkie crawlin' grub brown/chart, was able to catch two nice bass approx. 3 lbs. just before dark.

[Celliach]

Silver Lake Dupage County, Illinois  8/22/05

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 71° - 75° F 

Went fishing on Saturday morning.  Caught a 15"-16" Northern on the second cast, and was skunked for the rest of the day.

[Celliach]

Lake Michigan, Waukegon Harbor, Illinois 8/22/05

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 81° - 88° F     Water Temp: 61° - 65° F 

Friday afternoon. Fishing anywhere from 40-75 feet down. Purple Stinger with a cream flasher worked the best. Catching Kings up to 13 lbs. as well as a few rainbows.

Sunday went after perch and while there were plenty of undersized ones biting, we managed to catch a few between 9-12 inches.

Fish were firm, cold and aggresive.

[Celliach]

Braidwood Cooling Lake, Illinois, August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 81° - 88° F   
Water Temp: Above 80°  depends on location

Water temp running as high as 98 in some small coves.  Area 22 was running about 86 degrees and the cats were biting.  Catching lots of 1 to 5 pounders drift fishing with crawlers.  For a map of Braidwood hot spots, and local fishing talk, stop by Angelo Bait an Tackle on Rt. 53 in Wilmington.

[Celliach]

Pierce Lake, Rock Cut State Park, Winnebago County, Illinois, August

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 71° - 75° F     Water Temp: 76° - 80º F 

Caught two Largemouth on a texas-rigged worm, and one smallie on a jig with a plastic trailer.  Also picked up one walleye on a texas-rigged tube.  Lots of boat traffic on the lake.

[Celliach]

Lake Michigan, Illinois coastline, August

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 76° - 80º F     Water Temp: 46° - 50° F 


Went out last week and had the best bite ever! Four steelhead, two lake trout, and one each of king salmon and steelhead.  They all came out of the depths: 160 to 200 feet.

[silversalmon]

This be too easy Alaska, Chena River tagerting grayling. The water temperature was about 45 degrees, water level was low and clear Bait was a #14 mosuitio fly pattern fly, most productive, top water, at mile 45.6 Chena Hot srprings road(Angel Rock) under the overhanging trees for the cover and area

[Celliach]

McHenry Dam, McHenry County, Illinois, August

Conditions: Cloudy     Air Temp: 76° - 80º F 

Catching lots of cats between 2 and 6 pounds on chicken livers.  Tried worms but the cats aren't eating them.

[Celliach]

Chicago River, Cook County, Illinois, August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 91° - 95° F     Water Temp: 66° - 70° F 

Fishing on the North Branch has been good.  Also been catching lots of beer cans and tires.

[Celliach]

Pool 13 Mississippi River, Illinois, August
Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 86° - 90° F     Water Temp: Above 80° F 

Caught two largemouth over 4 lbs from deep in the grass and weeds while fishing all day (8-7).  Lost a couple more in the woods.

[Celliach]

Maple Lake, Dupage County, Illinois, August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 81° - 88° F 

In-line spinners seem to be the trick on this body of water.  Caught several bass late in the day in just one hour using the spinner across the channel.

[Celliach]

Dufeild Pond, McHenry County, Illinois, August

Conditions: Sunny     Air Temp: 81° - 88° F     Water Temp: 76° - 80º F 

Water level has been down real low due to the drought.  Lots of people catching nice bass on worms.  Scum frogs also working good.  Best time has been early morning or right after the sun goes down.