Woo Hoo Waterboo!

Mar 28 2019

Kevin Fuller

Slot Fish

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2014
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156

Reservation Number : 20413
Property Name : Waterboo Lake: Bedrock Ranch
Reservation Date : 03/28/2019 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 55 all under 2.5 lbs
Lures Used : Flies

Fished Waterboo this morning and early afternoon.  If you’re looking for a beautiful, quite place to catch a few bass on your fly rod this place has got to be it.  Caught 55 bass, 6 bluegill and 1 big crappie all on flies. None of the bass were bigger than 2.5 lbs.  If we were still culling in this lake easily 30 plus bass would have been culled.  But even these small bass are heroes on a 6 wt fly rod.  Black wooly buggers early and white woolies in late morning early afternoon.  This was my best “volume day” on a PW lake (or anywhere else for that matter).  Wind was blowing pretty good out of the south but manageable on my SUP.  Caught most of the fish at the south end in the shallow to deep transition at the edge of the weed line and at the north end by the dam from the shoreline to about 10 to 15 yards out.  Also caught a pretty good number along the weed line on the launch side of the shoreline.   I had the place for all day but left at 1 p.m. so I could eat lunch at Sweetie Pies before heading home.  Thank you Private Waters for providing such a great place to fish.  

Mar 29 2019

Steve Alexander

Admin

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2002
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Your Welcome Kevin. It is what we do. Glad you caught a bunch.

We are harvesting. We just have not updated the 2019 harvest requirements for this lake. Last year we removed 400 fish and will be shooting for that much this year. After that point my guess is we will back down to about 250 fish for 2020 and hopefully see the size of the "average" size of the fish begin to move up a size class or two.

Steve

Mar 29 2019

Kevin Fuller

Slot Fish

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2014
Number of Posts :
156

Man I wish I’d known I would have made a decent dent in the harvesting project.  After I caught my first 6 at the launch site I double checked my reservation and it had the No Harvest instruction on it.  I like catching the numbers there but would also like to see a boost in their size.   Most of the other PW lakes I fish have a good compromise on that equation.  But still…. it was a blast catching all those fish yesterday : ) 

Apr 06 2019

Chris Casner

Slot Fish

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2012
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233

That's a lot of bass on a fly (or otherwise), congrats.