Causey yak fishing 6/27

[JArner]

Nice report, I use to love fishing that lake back in the day. We had a small 12' aluminum boat that we use to drag down the face of the dam, it took about three trips up and down to get all our tackle, motor and stuff, that was the easy part, hauling it back up was the hard part but it wasn't too bad unless the lake was really low. Hard to tell from your pics but the lake looks to be at least 10 ft low but likely more. How deep were you fishing and what method were you using to get down to the fish?

It's been steadily dropping, but still not as low as I've seen in the past. I'd say you're pretty close with the 10', but maybe closer to 15' low. I had on a 2oz slip weight to get down into the 15'-25' range. I didn't have a good way to regulate so mostly went by feel, caught bottom several times. The weight was 18" above a dodger to a 6-8" leader on a pink/purple micro squid tipped with gulp maggots. Didn't have corn with me or anything pink to tip the hooks with, but didn't seem to matter.

That hike back up the hill with gear is the reason I didn't take my fishing kayak and all my normal setup, just too much work especially when you can't get a good parking spot.

You did good, from the sounds of it you did not even have a fish finder. so that makes it even tougher. Did you catch any other fish besides the kokes?

No other fish, which was a bit surprising considering all the bows we saw feeding on the surface. And no fish finder made it more difficult to figure out, but once I got a bite I could circle the area and usually entice a few more. I did try a couple of different lures in the slower sections, but the guy I saw catching down that arm was soaking a worm on the bottom.