Indian Hills

This is the single place I fish the most. I was there last weekend and did do some fishing but the weather, primarly the wind, was brutal. The girl doing the creel survey was there on weds and thrus and out of about 15-20 boat she didn't weigh more than about 10 fish! we went out sat morning when the weather was still a little iffy and knock out five nice ones in a matter of 45 minutes, unfortuantely when the sun poked out the fishing died completely! Sunday was brutally rough and we came in with our tails between our legs after a couple of hours. The girl doing the creel survey told us we did the best for the day on saturday with the next closest boat weighing in three fish. coinsidently, they were clean there fish the same time we were which means the afternoon bite was little to nothing.

Now as far as fishing tips, I'm not really gonna help you much here as there is a fishing tourny this weekend at Indian Hills and well I'm not reall willing to give away to much before the tournament, I think you'll understand. As slow as it is, I'll only say that fish have been caught in depths between 16ft-35ft, typically running spinners or lindys. not much for jig action and the crank bite is a little slow but worth it if you can connect on a couple. Watch the wind blown points, shorelines, the mudlines and even the pepsi flats have produced some decent fish. haven't done much fishing on the south side this year but in the past we've had pretty good luck. This year I have only fished the north side of the lake and have been both east and west.

As far as distances goes, your about 15 miles from deepwater, 22 miles to the entrance to vanhook, 32 miles to the vanhook railroad grade, and about 9 miles to nishu bay. These are all by water. Keep in mind a there's not a lot of places to hide from the wind in this area and west and southwest winds can be ugly! Good luck, maybe we'll see you down there!

I was up there the first two weekends in Aug. the fishing is slow...best chane is to work the flats, which is basically the advice WSWAT gave. We fished the south side one day from McKenzie to the pump house didn't mark any fish.
Fossil and Goat Islands and Mexican hat are all east of Indian Hills on the north side of the lake, they are some nice bays if the winds up. If eye fishing slow troll cranks around those bays never know when you'll hook in to a big northern.

As far as fishing the flats, that would be the stretch from becon point(which is west of Indian Hills, northside where the lake turns north) all the way down to pepsi point (which is the entrance to Indian Hills) there are fish here you just have to find them either troll or just drive slow until you start marking fish.
I taked with a few fisherman while I was up there, we're are starting to think the fish are buried in the flooded trees, wind permiting it may be worth it to slip-bobber or pitch jigs...I have not tried it yet up there but I know around Fort Stevenson it was working.