Holloway Res.

[mcanes1]

Anybody have any luck Saturday on the Holloway?
Me and a buddy were out there with our 2 boats, I had one hit, and he lost 2 on the way to the boat (probably catfish). Fished from 6:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Fished the main body and also the area north of the Mt. Morris rd. bridge (where what little action we had, occurred).
Talked to a few anglers no one was doing any thing.
I think the Holloway is an over rated as a walleye fishery.

Rich

[ArrowHawk]

Haven't fished Holloway this year, but jigging between the boat launch and the beach along the old river channel has produced. Also the Bowl betwwen goose point and the tubes trolling just a worm with two splits works. Try if you haven't already.

[mcanes1]

Thanks Arrow head.

We ran all kinds of body baits North of the Bridge. Then tried bottom bouncers with crawler harness in the main body following the river.

Rich
Mcanes1

[scottyhoover]

i was bottom boucing leeches the other day at the bridge and couldn't get a walleye to bite. Had some bass (smallies) follow in but no hook ups. For lack of a boat, I tend to fish below the dam a lot, to kill time and at least feel a tug.

There are about a million walleye in that short stretch of river below the dam, but you're hard pressed to catch anything over 10 inches. Its really wierd. I was out there on sunday morning and I caught 2 that might have measured but I tossed them back anyway.

Went back in the afternoon only to find 20 guys wading and standing right on top of the fish. Did see one person that had a couple small keepers on the stringer. (where were those keepers when i was there?)

Overall reports from the Res. have been very slow. Guy at grab bag claimed someone came in with a couple 4lbers but that could be a fish story.

[ArrowHawk]

The guys wading aren't dumb they are fishing the hottest spots (the deep holes). As for the bridge fish a 1/8 jig with a smoked color tail into the main channel.

[scottyhoover]

I didn't mean that they were dumb for wading, I wade myself. It was just their choice of position, everyone can cast to the holes without having to cast AT eachother ya know. i can hit the dam wall with my st. croix with 1/4oz from standing by the little rock island. I know that they are standing on the little hump in the middle, between the two holes, but just courtesy I guess, to not go and stand right smack in the middle of the fishin' area. my 2 cents.

[ArrowHawk]

That is one hell of a cast from the point with only 1/4 ounce. I never seen anyone cast half that in my 20 years of fishing there.
Anyways if you wade climb down the rock pile, on the edge of the wall going all the way across is a 3' wide walk area, go half way across, and fish toward the dam for Walleye away for big cats and smallies. Fishing away you will catch alot of gobies though.

[bounty hunter]

by the looks of the weather report for huron I will most likely be in holloway giving the walleyes a try, so anyone got any good advice?

[scottyhoover]

I've trolled a few times with friends who have boats, but I am far from an expert. Here is what I've heard works:

Seems like black/gold black/silver are good colors for hot-n-tots, or raps. Lots of people try to use those and a combination of crawler harnesses.

The stretch of water from in front of the boat launch east until goose point is where I always see trollers concentrating. But they will follow the river channel just about anywhere it goes. This is all I know and I don't know much about the water above mt. morris rd. bridge. Seems like more people might be trolling up there during this early season, maybe the majority of fish have run up that end and this is the good post-spawn spot.

Someone with more trolling experience on holloway will chime in.
Oh and I've heard that if you're getting cats or bullheads, you're going to slow!