Volga

[picksbigwagon]

Okay Del, what's happening on Volga this winter? will be down the first weekend of Feb and will be fishing out of Calmar. Lake Meyer is always a stop but my buddies also fish Volga. I haven't seen a report this winter

[Fishook]

I know del is the Volga Pro and I do not want to steal his thunder but I do have a Volga report. My son and I fished it this past Saturday. Didn't get there until 9 a.m. and I knew there was something fishy (no pun intended) when we observed only two other vehicles were there. We drilled lots of holes and everywhere we went we caught fish. I caught a decent LM but everything else was extremely small as in the 4-5 inch range. We caught crappie, perch, bluegill and the one LM and kept nothing which is OK. I had not fished Volga since I last fished with del a couple years ago. I do not know if our luck was typical but I would guess it was based on the very few fisherman there. For the record, we were using waxies and fished in the 12-20 foot range. My guess is there may be a real "imbalance" problem at Volga but del can fill in the details. Good Luck.

[delmuts]

since i don't ice fish, i don't have any first hand knowledge.

the little lake has been and"off & on" bite. there are some good size panfish in there, but remember that if the fishing is good there it gets pounded very hard.( a unfortunate example! several years ago we had great crappie fishing . but after three weeks the size started going down hill fast. there was three guys that fished it every day, and were bragging how between the three, they had kept over 4800 crappies) we should have a good year class of crappies coming up either this year or next.plenty of bass of all sizes, with good cat fishing. there are some jumbo perch in ther also, but hard to find.

i would suggest trying to find some of the brush piles( i know ther is one kind of straight out from the dock), or look for break lines.( yes there are a couple coming off the flat on the north side!)don't be afraid to try some thing smaller for bait also.( such as a erro larva [sp??] ) sorry i'm not much help! del

[picksbigwagon]

I forgot you don' Ice fish del, thanks for the reports though. My buddies have a few spots of their own on that lake. I heard now that we are hitting lake Meyer and probably a couple farm ponds