Pacemaker Fishing Forum

This morning was a little cold, so I decided to hit the water at around 9am.  The air temps were to rise from 40's to low 60's with a south wind by the afternoon.  Water level was about 5.4 at POR and the water was pretty stained with leaf debris mixed in the water.  I was excited to try out my new trolling motor.  I got a 68 pound thrust Seamax transom mount to replace my 55 pound Minn Kota Traxxis that fried.  The TM worked great.  It is powerful and smooth.  It also has a voltage meter on the top to see how the battery is holding up. 

I hit a nearby shoreline eddy first and then ran upriver after no bites.  I fished a flooded island and ended up catching one 14"er that knocked slack in my line with the chatterbait.

I did not catch anything else and the water was pretty muddy there, so I floated the next island down next.  I was able to use the drag chain instead of the anchor.  I tried chatterbaits, hair jig with trailer, tube, keitech swimbait, crankbaits and even a spinnerbait.  I spent most of the day floating the island and did not catch anything there. 

In the afternoon I decided to move down to the next island.  I was able to pick up one really dark 16.75" smallie behind a log near shore on a jig with a Paca chunk.


I floated to near the end of the island with no more bites, but I did see a mink, which I have never seen in this section.  The afternoon warmed up nicely, but the fishing was slow.  I ran into the crew fiasco trying to take out, which cost me about 15 minutes.  Finished fishing about 5pm.

Last edited by drxfish (Mar-28-19 4:20PM)