tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:04:23 +0000http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/fishreportblog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)Blogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-4108393654666192254Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:13:00 +00002009-07-23T08:14:45.071-05:00Howdy!Jim reports:Fishing was fair. Some small bass on the surface Friday evening by the islands. Saturday some bigger fish deep up by Charlie's place. Nothing after breakfast. Saturday evening a few on worms off points. My biggest was about 15.5" and Dave took a 16" fish. Then Dave pulled a major coup. He took a 4.5" war mouth on a 6" worm!Sunday am we boated 14 bass up in the ski area on the http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/07/howdy-jim-reports-fishing-was-fair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1498729853591610241Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:05:00 +00002009-07-16T08:21:07.253-05:00Howdy!Since the weather has cooled the shad rises are down or not existent. Fish are being caught on worms and other finesse baits in the same areas you would fish the rises. Just make a long cast and let the lure sink to a slow 8 count swimming the lure back. Worming with a Texas rig (bottom bouncing) on the points is doing well and using weightless worms over the weeds will catch you some as http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/07/howdy-since-weather-has-cooled-shad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-6756239531308365336Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:31:00 +00002009-06-10T09:05:52.313-05:00Howdy!Bass fishing continues to be good. We are in the middle of the post spawn and a lot of the bass were catching are small. Many fish 14 inches and smaller being caught. Now the lake limit allows you to keep 2 bass under 14 inches per day. I strongly suggest keeping 2 under 14 inches. LOE has a very healthy bass population. Keeping those small ones has 2 advantages. One, pan sized bass are thehttp://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/06/howdy-bass-fishing-continues-to-be-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-2800118757627112085Wed, 27 May 2009 12:57:00 +00002009-05-27T08:33:45.168-05:00Howdy,Jim and Dave were out this past weekend battling the bass and the boaters! Here's what Jim reports and hey you idiots take a boating lesson before you hurt yourself or worse yet some one that knows what they're doing! And keep your trash in your boat!Jim writes:Dave had a very good weekend with the bass. These were the two biggest, but he also had other very nice fish. Most of the bass camehttp://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/05/howdy-jim-and-dave-were-out-this-past.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-5067147310798519386Wed, 20 May 2009 12:57:00 +00002009-05-20T08:13:16.758-05:00Howdy!Bass continue to spawn. With most fish on the beds and others are off and moving into their summer patterns. Rubber presentations such as worms, lizards and jigs are doing the best.Crappie fishing is very slow. The spawn is over and some fish are being caught. Jigging while slow trolling in front of the weeds is working the best.It hasn't rained for 3 days and they are not predicting any http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/05/howdy-bass-continue-to-spawn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-6157826641465393402Wed, 13 May 2009 17:39:00 +00002009-05-13T12:54:15.435-05:00Howdy!The wind blew and the roofs flew! We had sustained gust of 98 miles per hour on Friday. The towns of Carbondale through Marion were devastated. A lot of homes and business are still without power today. Around the lake the damage is minimal. The north end of the lake was hit the worse with some power outages lasting until Tuesday.Bass are spawning with some fish on the beds and others are http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/05/howdy-wind-blew-and-roofs-flew-we-had.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1453247175322409536Wed, 06 May 2009 13:28:00 +00002009-05-06T09:32:15.342-05:00Howdy!My boat is fixed! As it turns out the carburetor springs were bad. I noticed the weak springs when I cleaned the carburetor last month. Instead of replacing them I wound them up tighter. The probable cause for failure is weak springs that were wound too tight causing the springs to slip. It was just waiting for the right circumstances to fail. As luck would have it my brother was driving inhttp://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/05/howdy-my-boat-is-fixed-as-it-turns-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-8571881576930130836Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:00 +00002009-04-28T09:18:10.141-05:00Howdy!The wind blew from Thursday through Monday. And not just a breeze! I'm talking a 20 + mph gale! Even fishermen with 70 pound thrust trolling motors were intimidated by the velocity of the wind and moved into sheltered bays and coves.My son Adam, grandson Logan, brother Charlie and friend Brian arrived Friday and Saturday. Charlie and I were thwarted in our efforts by a bad trolling motor http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/04/howdy-wind-blew-from-thursday-through.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-4842117103044032121Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:32:00 +00002009-04-21T08:18:31.498-05:00Howdy!Crappie fishing on LOE continues to be slow. It may have to do with the weather or a change in fishing patterns but the net result is right now, the middle of April, when the crappie are usually spawning the action is very slow. A buddy of mine spent 4 hours fishing for crappie this past Friday afternoon and most of Saturday and boated 3 crappie. One crappie was full of eggs and appeared http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/04/howdy-crappie-fishing-on-loe-continues.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1051442348874362993Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:09:00 +00002009-04-14T14:25:23.833-05:00Dead Bird Running – As told by Arlen Leslie & Written by Mike O.Monday. The alarm went off at 5:00AM. I looked outside and it was pouring rain. I turned the alarm off and went back to sleep. At 7:00AM my wife nudges me and ask if I was going hunting. I look outside and it is drizzling. Oh well, I’ll try again.Turkey hunting is not something I grew-up with. During the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s there http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/04/dead-bird-running-as-told-by-arlen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-7178677447083987609Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:35:00 +00002009-04-10T07:46:12.575-05:00Here's a turkey report and a fishing report!Monday morning started at 4:30 with a cup of coffee and a lot of hope. For the past 3 months I've watched many turkey in the fields that surround the places I call home. As the season came on I watched as the toms split-up their heads changing to a bright red and the big group of 50 plus hens and jakes separate into smaller groups of 20 or less. Two http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/04/heres-tukey-report-and-fishing-report.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-7341689319023635829Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:47:00 +00002009-04-01T08:02:57.755-05:00 Howdy!Biggest news around the lake, the crappie are biting and not just in the north end but all over the lake! The size is actually the biggest news because most of the fish are well over 10 inches and many are 13 inches plus! Biting patterns vary from jigging 15 feet over brush to casting over brush in five to 6 feet of water. The common denominator is brush meaning wood structure such http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/03/howdy-biggest-news-around-lake-crappie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-7762929245288365540Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:34:00 +00002009-03-31T11:46:53.578-05:00Howdy,The cold weather left and warmer weather is here. The lake is warming and the bass are biting. A tournament this pass weekend was won with over 20 pounds of bass! LOE has done better, regardless that's pretty good! See the UBetcha Outdoors home page for current water conditions.My grandson Daniel was in this weekend and we went fishing in my good neighbor Greg's boat. Daniel caught 3 http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/03/howdy-cold-weather-left-and-warmer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-2461401932645137723Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:51:00 +00002009-03-17T08:07:51.663-05:00Howdy!Last week winter temperatures returned dropping the lake water temperature and delaying the mid-lake crappie bite. At the north end crappie continued to caught even though the numbers were significantly down. Bass on the other hand are just tearing the shoreline up all over the lake in search of minnows, shad, crawdads or anything to eat. Jim was out there with tube jigs and road runners http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/03/howdy-last-week-winter-temperatures.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1668373911132240565Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:49:00 +00002009-03-11T08:11:27.754-05:00Howdy!Fishing improved over the past five days due to the warming air and water temperatures. Crappie are most active in the north main channel and bass are very active all around the lake. Crappie are being caught on minnows, tube jigs and Road Runners fished 3 to 5 feet deep over the main channel points. Black and chartreuse, red and chartreuse seem to be working the best. Bass are biting on http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/03/howdy-fishing-improved-over-past-five.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-2905968620938027889Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:10:00 +00002009-02-19T08:29:10.006-06:00The weather warmed up a little and the fish responded by biting a little bit better. With colder than normal water temperatures, moving your bait slow is the secret. The water has murked-up a bit and is running half a foot over the spillway. Most of your fish are still on or just off the shallow north end points. Find some weeds and you're in the right spot. Bright lures and ones that displace a http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/02/weather-warmed-up-little-and-fish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1423614804057824126Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:47:00 +00002009-02-12T08:21:58.752-06:002/12/2009The ice is off the lake and the temperatures are on the rise. The mid-section of the lake completely opened up this past Monday evening and now the bays are open all the way back. This will bring the fishermen back as air temperatures are to be in the high 40's and low 50's for the next 5 days. The lake level is above normal pool at about one and a half feet.With the recent cold, windy http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/02/2122009-ice-is-off-lake-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-1001721565278936933Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:31:00 +00002009-01-30T13:05:11.080-06:00I'm back!!The lake is frozen and so are the fish. Fishing is very slow on LOE . The lake is iced in from the mouth of Shawnee Bay (main channel) down. All bays are frozen for ay least 50% of their length. With all the bays past Shawnee Bay completely frozen. The ice is 8 inches thick in areas. But I wouldn't try walking across the lake. The deep spots and where there is some flow the ice is muchhttp://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2009/01/lake-is-frozen-and-so-are-fish.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-4329678822355230797Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:30:00 +00002008-08-29T07:46:54.729-05:008/29/2008Water Temperature North & South = 85Water Clarity = Mostly ClearWater Level = Normal PoolLast Rain = 8/21/2008I went fishing last evening with my neighbor Greg. Our focus was shad rises and catching the bass chasing them. The rises were few with long pauses in between. But we managed to boat 8 that measured 15 inches to 17 inches. We lost 2 as we were fighting them and Greg broke off http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/08/8292008-water-temperature-north-south.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-2649404964451159916Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:58:00 +00002008-08-28T08:02:01.380-05:0008/28/2008Water Temperature North & South = 85Water Clarity = Clear to CloudyWater Level = Normal PoolLast Rain = 8/21/2008Jim Writes:Action was slowest Friday evening and Sunday morning, but pretty good on Saturday.Bass on the rises Friday by the island, Saturday am in the ski area, again Sunday am, and Saturday evening in the general Spanish house area.Wally also said he caught bass by the http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/08/08282008-water-temperature-north-south.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-5238382043175061414Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +00002008-06-12T10:10:23.435-05:0006/12/2008Middle South Main Channel – 78Water Level = 2 inches Above Normal PoolWater Clarity = Cloudy and ClearingLast Rain = 06/10/08Summertime patterns are on! Jim was out last weekend and caught bass off the points bottom bouncing worms. One was 19 inches long. Steve was using a top water pattern and killed them as well.Steve reports:The Juice and I headed down to LOE and launched at about 6:http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/06/06122008-middle-south-main-channel-78.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-7782744651466276230Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:42:00 +00002008-06-12T07:49:43.153-05:0006/06/2008Middle South Main Channel – 73Water Level = Normal PoolWater Clarity = Murky,CloudyLast Rain = 06/03/08Fishing has been spotty. Crappie and bass have moved into their summertime patterns are are a little slow on the bite. Points and flats are producing the bass. Use rubber worms or finesse baits. Crappie are doing well in the main channel and main channel coves. Jigs or minnows fished http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/06/06062008-middle-south-main-channel-73.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-3109376555547405339Tue, 20 May 2008 11:03:00 +00002008-05-20T06:11:39.847-05:005/20/2008I copied this article from the LEAPO Website (see front page link) and it was written by the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative:2008 Fish StockingLake of Egypt used to be touted as one of the premium crappie fishing lakes in southern Illinois, but over the past few years they have become harder and harder to find and catch. Crappie have long been sought for their table friendliness http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/05/5202008-i-copied-this-article-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-8648902055523433260Mon, 19 May 2008 15:59:00 +00002008-05-19T11:30:09.896-05:005/19/2008Water Temperature = 70 and RisingWater Clarity = Cloudy and ClearingWater Level = Normal pool.Last Rain = 5/19/2008Good news and not so good news!I’ll lead in with the not so good news. Crappie and bass catching have all slowed down. The spawn has happened and the fish are guarding nest or suspended at mid-depth on their way to summertime patterns. You can still catch’em because not all http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/05/5192008-water-temperature-70-and-rising.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35887493.post-4264045490083332562Thu, 15 May 2008 17:59:00 +00002008-05-15T13:39:30.726-05:0005/15/2008Middle South Main Channel – 68 to 70 SteadyWater Level = 12 inches Above Normal Pool RisingWater Clarity = MurkyLast Rain = 05/15/2008Crappie and bass continue to spawn and because of that fishing is good to fair. Crappie are hitting on minnows or jigs fished at a medium speed with cast from the shoreline out being the most effective. The only trick is to keep the bait moving at 18 http://www.ubetchaoutdoors.com/2008/05/05152008-middle-south-main-channel-678.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mike O.)0