Madison Action

The fishing is definitely moving into the fall bite and the fish are aggressively feeding. How’s this for a bass angler this afternoon? 26″ eye

2 cool!
Cranks, spinners, worms, or on what ?
Hawger

Majority of the fish I’ve been catching on Madison, German, and Francis have been on crankbaits. Use the wind to your advantage…

hideeho hawger and friends. The fall bite is on, but the fish are not where they are supposed to be. To me fall bassin consist of deep weeds and big jigs and tubes with wiggely arms and junk like that. Now it`s trick worms, spinner baits, buzz baits, and some texas rig`s just to keep me sane. I did manage to turn a tough day into a decent day a week ago. Day after a front, high sky`s and very little wind. Couldn`t buy a bite on a worm and started throwing a crank…….BLAM…….SMACK…….KAPOW. Man they were ripping them. Reaction strikes were needed. Learned a huge lesson, and I thought I knew it all. Ha ha. Hey thanks and keep jerken Flip

Any updated word on the bite at Madison? Brother & I are planning to run up there tomorrow.

Thanks!

PoleBender

Went to Madison on Sunday. Caught 7 walleyes, 4 snakes and a crappie. Only one walleye large enough to keep 17″ the rest were short fish. Pulled cranks from noon to dark. Water temp at 65 degrees.

PoleBender

Tom,
Sounds like a tough day… at least you were fishing!
What cranks were they hitting? Deep?
Hawger

Hawger,

They all came on black and silver in 12 – 8 feet. Didn’t matter what brand of crank just had to be black and silver.

Tom