Devils Lake Report

[fishchaser]

Had a nice dive on Saturday.  Vis was probably at least 15'.  We dove the East shore.  Geez, there was a ton of families fishing that shoreline, but most towards the Northern half (closest to the parking lot).  There was also about 15 OW students there.  We swam past them and decended.  Was pretty boring at first....plain bottom and no fish.  But then we came upon the boulders and tons of fish.  Lots of rock bass schools, a few bluegill, and plenty of largemouth and smallmouth bass.  As MikeS said, they are pretty friendly.  One bass followed me around for a bit, and came so close to my face that I couldn't take pictures even in macro mode!  Water was a toasty mid-70's, with the thermocline at 17'.  Not much to see below 17', so we stayed above the thermo.  Was nice to dive without a hood and gloves for a change.  Wanted to do a second dive yesterday, but I forgot my weightbelt in my buddy's car.  Darn.