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Subject: Coffeen, Illinois
Submitted by Luis Delgado (ip 70.225.46.48)
Date Fished: 4/1/2006
Water Temperature: 64
Water Clarity: 2-3 feet My Friend and I just purchased a boat with a brand new 25 EL Mer 2 stroke... :-). Needless to say we tried it out all weekend at Coffeen. Saturday we arived at 5:45, we spent time near the center of the lake fishing the West side. We moved all the way back into one of the side coves. The temp in the cove was 64 and early on I laid into 2 - 2.8 lb big mouths using a 10 black and blue Berkly power worm caught in 7-10 ft they were sitting near submerged trees, We were trying to work our way out of the cove and see if we could find any Post-spawners in transition none exept for these two. After that we moved up to the north end of the lake fishing the Long cove on the East side of the lake (the one before you get to the train tracks). My friend thru on a spinner proceeding to hop it in and around any visable cover. He caugt a 2.9 in a thick patch of weed/moss :-( (Big fish of the day). We caugt 6 a piece most 2 lb or better with 2 under 12". (some on carolina rig in the coves but most on spinner and worm) We didn't even bother fishing the warm end I never seem to do well there.
Sunday the storms rolled in We were on the lake around 7:15. There was some rain on the lake but not as much as we expected. The water had cooled down to 61. We started off in the Northern cove I spoke of on the Saturday trip. I had on a Black and red Buzz Bait, my Friend had on a Spinnerbait. Again we started of in the front of the cove and worked our way out about 15 minutes into fishing I was clunking around the same patch of moss my friend caugt the 2.9 lb fish the day before and happened to look up just in time to see a big fish Roll on my buzz bait. I worked it into the boat (and into the weeds....LOL) and woo hoo it was my biggest Coffeen bass yet 3.9 Lbs... Tim decided to throw on a top water chugger and almost immediatly hooked into a 2.8 pounder. We fished the cove thouroughly but no more fish... And that was the Game of the rest of the day... The fish hid and we played go seek. I think he caugt 3 and I caugt 3 all the first two were the big ones the other fish were under 1 1/2. We wanted to fish carolina rigs off the points but with the storms moving in it was to windy to even try. We're making a 5 day fishing trip next week to Cedar lake near Murphysboro, IL. If anyone has info on the lakes down here and can offer some advice on how the fishing has been it would be much appreciated.
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