I had the Ville pretty much to myself on Sunday afternoon. It was a beautiful afternoon, not too windy and almost 60deg. The water temp is 50.8, so things have definitely cooled down. I saw 2 other boats out there, both in the Marina and Sandpiper area. I fished from 3 till 5 mostly around McBride point looking for whites stacked up on the old roadbed. I found them on sonar twice but was not able to get a single one in the boat.
I tried spoons, jigs with gulp minnows, slabs and tailspinners all to no avail. I spotted diving gulls in the binos and zoomed over hoping for a bust up, but I think they were picking at leftovers from a few cormorants. I did not do any trolling, which I may have to resort to the next time out. I know they are there and can be caught, the question is, how much patience I can have hunting them down instead of moving over to Big Creek for the start of the (hopefully) walleye bite.
This represents the first time all year I have gotten skunked on the Ville. I am quite convinced that I can get decent numbers of whites all the way up to hard water because they are doing it in the Dakotas. I think I will give Saylorville at least one more outing before moving on to other waters…
Tight lines,
Dave