tri county canal checks

Has anybody been fishing around the checks yet? Would like to give a try in the next couple weeks. Might be a good time to get a few walleye.

What is a canal check?

For the second year running, I really haven’t heard much at all about the checks. Usually I hear something, but not this year. I’m betting not much fishing was going on because of the cold, frozen conditions, too. They’ll be heating up a bit real soon though.

The checks on our canal system are spaced out, anywhere from 4-5 miles apart on up, usually. They are concrete structures the water passes through, and a lot of times there will be holes on the downstream side, and with that are fish concentrations. The checks are how the water is regulated down this manmade canal system. Sometimes you’ll go to a lake on the canal and it’ll be at full pool, and the next day you go it’ll be down 2 feet. Always fun dealing with that mess!!!

Glad to have you on board, Junkman. Where abouts are you located?

Welcome Junkman

was working out on the canal system laying block today, ,COLD SUCKER OUT THERE, drove by the diversions and canals system, water open in front of the spillways, canal system is breaking up, but has big ice floating, plumcreek midway, gallagers still frozen over, stopped at the ramp. you can still walk on the ice , it,s still white hard ice, if you go by youngs check, and it gets warm, you had better have 4 wheel drive, al…

Thanks Seth for the report.

the ice in the canals are pretty much gone, with ice along the edge, johnson lake inlet is about 1/3 open, from the inlet east edge, out to the lake is about 60 yrds open this morning, the middle of the lake is just starting to turn a very, very, light blue with white ice by the dam, the outlet is open. elwood looks like some melting along the edge, the johnboat structure that,s been there all winter had shifted to the east about 10 yrds. al…..

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The checks around Gothenburg are starting to go now. A lot of walleye ranging from 10-18″ with an occassional 5+lber. Some days is great others are slow. Yesterday was slow. Inlet at Johnson is still slow for the most part. The bait fish have yet to move into the inlet.
Matt

Great!!! Thanks for the heads up. Might make a morning run.

Good fishin’
dj

Did you end up fishing? Have you heard anything on Tobey or the Double?

Nope, went to Sherman instead and it was a bust. Should have gone to the canal.

Good fishin’
dj