Hit the lake at Normandy today in hopes of catching something.....I caught nothing. I covered a lot of ground in the kayak there today. I ran into Billy Price today after he came off of a float on the Duck with his family. It was nice to meet him and family and they had a much better day of fishing than me. Seems some trout still alive below the dam. I am getting a lot of seat time in my kayak. Also am playing around with the si a lot. I knew Normandy had an aeration system to add oxygen to the water....but I had no clue how it worked or how large it is.....its pretty darn big! I at first thought my sonar had bit the dust. Then I noticed all around the kayak all these air bubbles. For a minute there I thought a whale was about to blow...LOL. This thing runs from the back of the boat ramp parking lot way out past the center of the lake. The shots you see with everything in blooms is the air coming out of those lines. Many of you may already know about this and have seen it on your sonar...today was the first I had ever seen it in action. There are plenty of fish in Normandy as my sonar pics show. I only had the one rod using a Trout Magnet and no way was I getting down to where most of the fish were. If you will look at the si pic you can see tons of fish hanging around the oxygenated water. I polled a bunch of crappie and walleye fisherman today and no one I talked to was catching. But no one was fishing where all the aeration was going on. I would have loved to have been trolling something through all those fish. I am sure it was some of every specie hanging around there. I had sharpness on low on the si and I am sure if I had it set medium or high I would have seen even more fish. I couldn't find any fish shallow...but there were plenty deep. I paddled so far away from the ramp I was wondering would I make it back. There wasn't much wind and paddling out I was paddling into the wind and thought how it would be an easier paddle coming back....well the wind changed and I was paddling upwind all the way back too.....LOL. I haven't been very successful catching fish the last 3 weeks but that is about to change. In one week I am headed for the White River.
Normandy 07-17-2014
