Was getting ready to head down to Salamonie Lake State park for Labor day weekend bringing the boat with me and camp for 3 nights.  Anyone got any hints on where to get away from the boats and catch fish?  What is the best species of fish to catch in the lake, what bait/ tackle to use, how deep all that good stuff to make it a good fishing weekend.  I only have a 14' v- bottom but, it gets me where I need to go and catches me more fish then I would have standing on shore lol!

Eric Smith Warsaw, Indiana

Hey I had to create a new username for some reason.  Well I had a blast there at Salamonie being labor day weekend the lake was pretty rough so I decided to take my lil jon boat down the river.  Glad I did try the river I had great success catching white crappie and white bass trolling with jig.  Had to have cought atleast 50-60 fish in 2 days of fishing tried in the lake cought one white bass lol. 

glad you had a good weekend at the salomonie. i'm just learning where to fish there to some frends and i fish it and have had some luck around the dam area happy fishin,rusty huntington in

hey thanks ya i have been up there these past few weekends fishing in the river has been slow now im looking for a new place to find them.  Now are you talking about fishing the dam on the lake side or on the tailwaters where the water shoots out?  I have fished where the water shoots out on shore or standing on the bolders in the water there are many diffrent fish there but, its just not fun to me catching fish there I like to find them in the boat.  Where are all the  big cats there?
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i have fished on the dam side the south side,looking at the dam its on your left side.ther are some chanels and some nice points there to. drift into some of the channels hooked a 20in cat on the north side one night he had a nice fight. hope to get out there before they start to let the water out this year happy fishin rusty in huntington

Thanks for the tips i'll give it a shot what you using for bait there?  The 3 baits I use usually in the rivers and lakes around here are nightcrawlers, live or dead chubs, and chicken liver.  I wouldn't mind getting out there one more time before I put up the boat myself.

Thanks, Eric Smith Warsaw, IN Life Member

hay eric,i think all of those baits would work about any place on that lake, i've used berkly gulp alive 3" leeches off the points for some nice bass to happy fishin rusty

the wife said they are starting to drop salamonie she goes that way everyday to work. don't know how much more we can go out there this year, maybe next year. happy fishin rusty

that sucks ya next year for sure maybe we can plan a trip i'll meet you down there at one of the ramps show me around the lake
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hay eric was able to get out today get a few crappy no bass seen a few schools here and there the wind was a bit brisk, but it was a nice day.the lak was down about 4 or 5'. ya we'll have to get together and check it out.happy fishin rusty

Glad to hear your trip atleast wasn't a waste nothing like getting skunked!  Yeah now would be a good time when they shut off the water from the dam to fish there where the spillway is you have to walk down all those steps.  Fish from the shore very low tech methods give everything a shot worms, chicken liver, minnows, and crawdads put the river sinker on and throw er out and watch the line.  I am amazed of the variety of species that hold up in those waters we have caught fresh water drum, walleye, rock bass, catfish, carp, crappie and according to my friend many, many, ,many years ago they caught huge paddlefish before they became on the endangered list.

Thanks, Eric Smith Warsaw, IN Life Member

If you could let me know when they are done draining the lake I would sure appreciate it I would like to try where the water shoots out at where you have to walk down all those steps.  I know you mentioned your wife I believe goes past there.

Thanks, Eric Smith Warsaw, IN Life Member

hay hows it going i sure will let you know, we were out around the south side awhile back and took some pictures. was just a little late for fall colors but got some neet shots. seen 14 point buck being weighed 330lbs man what a deer, friend said he caught some crapie couple weeks ago dont know where. hope winter goes as fast as summer did, happy fishin/some withdraws already rusty

hello happy sun burnt from huntington, havn't fished salamonie yet. waters to muddy and high from all the rains we have had, had vacation this week we fished barbee chain this week silver lake and fox lake over by angola indiana, caught some nice bluegill some nice bass in the 10 to 15" range took my uncle out fishin friday that was the best day of the hole week. uncle is 78 this year .he's been fishin all his life he's one of the people that tought me how to fish.so i'm paying him back now i can see his face light up every time we go. hay you all have a great summer of fishin this year maybe we can meet up sometime this year happy fishin rusty.

HEY Indiana Stripper record was broken last week 32 pounds I dont recall the persons name or where it was caught some where in Southern part of state Mcopeland1

I wanna go next year I just live in Columbia City!!!!!

Hey guys, hows it going? Personally I've never fished Salamonie but have been to Huntington lake roush a few times. Many people talk about good crappie fishing at Salamonie and with all the flooded timber there its not hard to believe. As for the catfish if you have a sonar/ fish finder and can locate the river channel that runs through the lake I'm sure you could get some whopper catfish there. I know at lake Roush in Huntington you can catch a lot of fish of different species if you can fish along one of the old roads that they flooded. I understand that theres supposed to be an entire town in there somewhere..lol.. but I'm not sure where it is... Good luck fishing spring is right around the corner. Jeff from Decatur.