Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I decided to get out and hit Burke Lake on Wednesday 5/21.  I got out early and was on the water about 6:30AM.  Water was brown stained through the whole lake due to recent rains.  It was the muddiest I have seen it.  I decided to start with large subsurface baits near a creek entry and after a bit I caught a small walleye on a full-size chartreuse minus 1.  That was my first walleye ever.  It was fairly small 16-17" and skinny.  I did not get a picture because it was half snagged and I wanted to get it back in the water.  Next was a white crappie on a tube near a blowdown.  Then I got a hard hit and I thought I had a nice bass, but it turned out to be a catfish that was over 5 lbs. that took a TUBE.

I moved to the next cove and I finally got a bass on a tube skipped to mid-cove submerged wood structure.  It was a bit over 14" but fought hard.

I did not get anything else for a while and moved back to the first cove.  I caught another similar sized catfish skipping the tube to a blowdown.

I was trying different lures back in the cove and was using a large double willow War Eagle spinnerbait when I hooked and lost a larger bass that jumped and threw me before I could get the hook set well.

I was working my way back to leave as my battery was dieing.  I decided to try a white chatterbait on a weedline and hooked a nice 16"er. 

I caught one more smaller bass on the chatterbait after that and called it a day by 1:00PM.  Water is getting warm and I think most of the bass are just done spawning.  4 species made the day interesting and a good day overall.