Heading out next week

[truecrimson]

My wife and I and a friend who is new to fishing plan to hit Struble on Tuesday.  My friend has only been fishing a couple of times in his life and never caught anything, including a few weeks ago when I took him to Pinchot.  We will be in kayaks.  It would be really cool if we could get him into some fish.  I don't think type will matter much at this point, he'll just be excited to catch something.

Any recommendations on where in the lake to target and what sort of lures or soft plastic to try?

[fishnmusicn]

Curly tail grubs are always good with the action they provide - keep it small enough to catch crappie but big enough for bass and maybe a walleye you will get more action with a smaller grub, with bluegills and crappies, maybe a yellow perch maybe for the aciion go with a smaller curly tail grub on a jig...

[mrsimon]

A small jig with some worm on it below a bobber.

It might sound childish, but it works. And nothing is more fun than watching a bobber go under.

[fishermansteve]

Go to the dam for best results, any banks to the left and right of the dam are also good spots.

[truecrimson]

Thanks guys. I wanted to say thanks sooner but when I tried to log in on my phone I kept getting an error, and haven't had time to sit down at the computer until today.

We went last night. My wife and I put in about 6:30PM, but my co worker had been paddling around for an hour by then. Of course he doesn't have a rod yet, so that made fishing difficult for him until we arrived We didn't land anything but had some nice bites.

We all started off with jigs with a spinner on them. My wife used a pink tube on a pink jig, and I set my co worker up with a white curly tail on a white roadrunner. I started off with a white roadrunner with a pink tube, but since I had the tackle boxes I tried a bunch of different things until we left at 9:30 PM.

I had something strike the roadrunner/tube right by the kayak as I was pulling it in, but didn't hook up. My wife hooked into something that took line, but she couldn't bring it in. It really bent her ultralight rod, and she ended up handing it to me to fight. I couldn't get it in either. It would peel line for a while and then stop. Then when I tried to reel it in it would take off again, pulling so hard we were afraid it would break the rod. It finally spit the jig.

I'm thinking it was probably a big catfish.

We fished to the right of the dock a bit and then headed over to the dam. I spoke to a couple of guys, I think a father and son, in a john boat who launched just before us. They had caught a bass and a walleye by the dam. They said they got the walleye on a rapala, but I thought I had left my rapala box in the truck. We tried cranks and soft plastics (flukes in white, pink, and watermelon red) with no luck, though we did get some bites here and there. We worked our way back down the side to the left of the dock. When we were loading up I discovered my rapala box had been in the bottom of the kayak the whole time.

As usual with my wife and new people I spent a lot of time helping them with rigging and stuff. It was a beautiful day and great scenery. The paddle was a good workout, and we will definitely be back. There were a few people shore fishing but not many.

Thanks again for the tips guys.

[fishermansteve]

Its great to hear that Walleyes have been caught there this year!! I'll definitely be targeting them. Thanks for all the feedback!