Edit- also, stocking numbers of the RBT in Shorty's note above equates to something like 750 RBT per acre.... Wow....
Keep in mind that Sylvan is a small public lake in Custer State Park and that the harvest rates on RBT are likely very high.
We were there in late June and woke up to a dusting of snow one morning. I remember seeing male FHM minnows in spawning colors that were jockeying for spots on the north shore at during that trip. We caught a lot of RBT on that trip but most of them were hooked 30 to 50 yards off the bank using small spoons (lil' Jake's) that imitated minnows, long casts, light line, and fast retrieves were the ticket. Other folks fishing nears us using night crawlers and fishing much closer to shore had very little luck.
