Jun 29 2014
Rick Svoboda
Slot Fish
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2011
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197
A guest and I fished Timber lake for 5 1/2 hours on Saturday afternoon 6/28. We caught 15 Bass, 3 of which we harvested. The biggest was 5 pounds with another 5 in the 3-4 pound range. Mid diving and deep diving crank baits worked the best. Not a huge number of fish, but nice size. Did catch a 14 pound Catfish that was a lot of fun to land. We used the landowner’s v-bottom boat with seats which worked very nice for the two of us.
Posted By: Rick Svoboda
Jun 30 2014
Jackson Bean
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2012
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225
It’s really funny you mentioned this Rick. I was there last Wednesday and foul hooked a 20 pound catfish in the tail down at the dam on a DD22. Having it hooked in the tail it seemed like a 40 pounder with what felt like head shaking as well. It had it’s way with me for over five minutes until I could finally get it in. Having fished Timber Lake as many times as I have over the last few years I figured I would have caught a catfish long before now. I would have told you there weren’t any in there. Well I was wrong and I all but had TP&WL on the phone to come certify the new state record when I finally got the mammoth beast in to the boat and saw it. My heart was racing, I was out of breath, and my ego was wounded! :)
Glad you had a good day out there.