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Post by havnfun on Mar 30, 2016 16:06:32 GMT -5
Fishing for crappie using crappie magnets and hooked a fish which I got to the boat and tried to hoist it in. It got off. My buddy and I could see some of it and it clearly wasn't a bass or a pickerel. It was 18-20 in. He is sure it was a walleye.It was not a muskie. I'm not sure it was a walleye since they aren't supposed to be in there. Could it have been a trout? They were stocked in 01 and 02. As I was launching a guy on the dock told me he had recently caught a large walleye. I didn't believe him and an hour later I may have got one too. What do you think? Walleye or trout?
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Post by shellback on Mar 31, 2016 6:30:14 GMT -5
There's always the chance someone introduced the walleye from another water body. No reason it wouldn't live and thrive in Chambers. Pretty significant difference between a walleye and a trout, even if you just saw the head or the back.
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Post by havnfun on Mar 31, 2016 13:21:04 GMT -5
I checked and found out that trout were stocked in the lake in 01 and 02. The way it fought I'm thinking it was a trout. I just have never heard of trout being caught there.
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Post by shellback on Mar 31, 2016 14:45:51 GMT -5
14 to 15 years would seriously exceed the life span of a trout. so I doubt it was stocked. Sure it wasn't a carp?
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Post by havnfun on Mar 31, 2016 20:29:21 GMT -5
I agree unless they could reproduce. Wasn't a carp. Too much green and yellow gold color. Head was greenish. Lots of action and some jumping on the retrieve.
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Post by duratechfa on Mar 31, 2016 22:18:41 GMT -5
Sounds like a smallmouth. They used to be common in there but they're becoming a rarity. Last one I caught there was about 16" and that was about 15 years ago
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Post by icemole on Apr 1, 2016 6:18:25 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 7:16:38 GMT -5
I'm thinking maybe a smallmouth as well? I did actually hook one there two years ago; got it to the boat and it threw the hook on my UL rod. I estimated that one at about 15-16".
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Post by Harry Miles on Apr 1, 2016 10:36:40 GMT -5
I've been fishing chambers almost every weekend for at least the last 5 years. Never seen a trout, walleye or smallmouth in there. I've heard stories of smallies, but I've never seen any photo evidence.
It was probably a flathead catfish, they have the coloration you described and they will hit that type of lure. We've caught a few of them over the years, mostly slow fishing senkos or jigs
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Post by teb67gt on Apr 1, 2016 12:12:37 GMT -5
You have caught flatheads in Chambers??? If they are in that little piece of water that would likely be a really bad thing for the fishery as a whole. I know channels were stocked there once upon a time and personally saw - though didn't catch a few up towards the dam back in the day. I did catch some pretty nice smallmouths there, again up around the dam 1/4 of the lake. Considering the depth and rockiness of that part of the lake I am sure any that remain would be limited to that area. I only caught a few SMB during the first couple of years after it was opened...back around 2000 or so. To be fair I don't usually fish that part of the lake though so who knows.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 14:00:11 GMT -5
Yeah; I have never heard of Flatheads in Chambers and I agree; if they are that would be very bad news. Actually the Smallie that I hooked two years ago was right up before where Birdell Road once entered the lake, back in that little cove on the rock pile. I was very surprised to see it but I knew it was a smallie since it was about an arms length from being boated.
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Post by Harry Miles on Apr 1, 2016 14:03:57 GMT -5
I know I have a pic of one of them, I'll dig it up this evening and post it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 14:13:39 GMT -5
Hopefully you did not throw them back in??? Channel Catty's are fine but I would say that anyone that catches a Flathead in Chambers needs to get rid of it.
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Post by Harry Miles on Apr 2, 2016 0:01:49 GMT -5
Here's the pic.
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Post by icemole on Apr 2, 2016 8:48:05 GMT -5
By no means am I an expert on Cats - but I believe you have a trophy bullhead there
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