Got out to the lake at 6am and rented a boat with my cousin. Was hoping we could into some early season catfish (they're yellow bullheads in there) or some crappie. I had fished the opener out here on off the dock and seen some nice crappie between 8 and 12 inches and quite of few cats. We started on the far side by the barn with the blue roof and worked the whole backside weedline with only a couple of hits. So we trolled small crankbaits over towards the next stretch i wanted to work over, and i went 2 for 3 on trout (about 10 inchers during the move). Pounded the next spot for awhile without even a bite. So we trolled our way to another spot i've had some luck and my cousin hit about a 12 rainbow. After working through that area, with the only bite being a 2in bass, we started fishing deeper off the weedlines fished most of the backside again but in about 8 to 12 ft of water before the wind started gusting a bit too much to stay on anchor, so we decided we'd troll for awhile to see if the wind would die down some. Missed a couple of fish while waiting out the wind (which didn't die off til we were tired being in the wind). Decided we'd just fish from the dock for a bit and my cousin caught three big with the the biggest being about 12in and was the biggest fish either of us had caught. We finally called it a day around 4:30 figuring there wasn't much more we could throw at'em today.

Also saw 5 trout caught of the dock all day and nobody hooking up out in the few boats that we saw out there. The water was really soupy looking today and i think the lake is starting to flip over.

rickydbasser

5/17/2013 10:45:00 AM

Sorry to say, the flipping of the lake's strata isn't the culprit. That only happens in late fall when surface water cools much faster than the layer of water below it. At least that's what I've been told. Nevertheless, Silver Lake is one of those unfortunate lakes that, because of fertilizers running off into the water from surrounding dairies, the algae thrives, giving the water that split-pea soup look which will last all summer long. I was given some brown trout caught from there, and they tasted about as good as the water looked. Nearby Harts Lake is another victim of the same problem caused from the near-by dairy.

returnofthefish

5/17/2013 11:24:00 AM

always nice to see a rare west side catfish report.

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