Hello all i am fairly new to the site but not fishing.I fish indian lake mostly for saugeye but was wanting to try my luck over at hoover.I was wondering what kind of setups to use for the lake im ust to shallow water mostly trolling.Do you guys drift for them or troll shallow areas?I am not looking for area to fish but what is most common shallow,deep,drop off points?I have buddys that fish there mainly bass but the catch them casting.I am pretty much targeting saugeye.I probably will be putting in up around galena and i think that is the more shallow area of the lake,this will be were i start my searching for saugeye.Any advise would help this rookie hoover fisher.
Seems like right now shallow flats near deep water, Casting or trolling cranks,swimbaits. also throwing at shore cover like ur beating the banks for bass,cause of all the fry in the water right now.
Theres others on here that know hoover better then i but thats were they seemed to be saterday late afternoon. LOTS of bait in the back of coves in the middle section between smothers and sunbury. Water looks NICE also, go gettem and let me know how ya do
When I started saugeye fishing 3 years ago, I bet I hit hoover 6-8 times with only crappie to show for it. I had read so many good reports from hoover I thought it was the best place to learn how to fish for them. Well its been 3 years and I still haven't caught a single ONE out of hoover, took the same techniques to alum and have had great success. Indian buckeye and alum have all been good to me, I guess hoover is my nemisis. Still hit it up for crappie, but that's about it for me. I even studied the crap outta that cassie may saugeye project to no avail.
Hoover is probably one of the hardest lakes to pattern for Saugeye.
I think that's why Misfit liked this lake so much. Always a challenge, even when you think you have it down, she'll make you look silly at times!
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I was reading another post on hear bout fish size limit for saugeye,since there is no minimum size limit except for a few lakes are there any decent saugeye in lake i hear of alot of dinks.I personally dont keep them if they not at least 15" just dont think there is enough meat on the smaller ones.I am going to be up at hoover next weekend to try my luck shure hope there is some good eaters in there.I am still looking for some good tactics on the lake tho, i do have a few starting points.
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