Took the boat over to Wehrspann Lake in Omaha on Monday and Tuesday morning. We set up across the lake toward the Dam on a drop off along the channel that had a brush pile near by. We used jigs tipped with large minnows. We jigged right on the bottom. Had to constantly change depths because the wind was blowing us back and forth from 18ft to 26ft. On Monday we managed to catch 3 walleyes, 2 crappies and a catfish. Water temp was around 41 degrees. I took my cousin there on Tuesday morning and we managed to catch 2 more walleyes and 2 cats over 4 pounds. To sum it up, we really had to work for the fish we caught. Talked to many other people that didn’t even have a bite. Here is a pic of my cousin holding a 16 inch Eye.
March 18, 2009 at 1:46 pm
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I drained the lower unit of my motor last night and the oil was a little milky. That’s not good considering I’ve taking it out only a couple times this year and never went over 5mph. I am going to take it to Mercman in NE City tomorrow. He’ll to a vacuum test and hopefully fix the problem. I guess I probably should have checked the oil in the lower unit when I bought the boat last summer. Lesson learned! Ben, have you been able to hit Branched Oak any more this week? I might try to make it out there sometime next week (probably Friday). Also, if anyone wants to hit the W in the morning next week, let me know. I usually will go over there a couple times each week before I go to work. Husker26 – I have been to Wehrspann a ton and have also never been checked which is amazing since I believe the offices are right there. I have seen so many people keep illegal fish in that lake, it is unbelievable (especially Crappie).
It was kind of ghetto but I couldn’t waste this nice day. We got out there around 3PM and fished till 8PM. It was slow but did manage 3 walleyes and 2 cats. My 8 year old caught his biggest Walleye to date. She was 21 inches and full of eggs. My son wanted to keep it but I showed him the eggs coming out and explained to him why we should release it. She’s back in the lake to catch again another day 
Ended up boating 7 Crappies and 2 Walleye’s (16 & 17″). Nice healthy looking fish. Only fished for a couple hours, one of us decided not to bring any warm clothes and ended up getting cold real quick.