Mud Hen Lake – Burnett County

Hello All

We have our first BASS club tourney on Mud Hen Lake in Burnett county on May 19th. Anyone have any info on bass fishing around the spawn on the lake? I am a non-boater so I have no ability to pre-fish so looking for any kind of help I can get. I am guessing clear water so I would guess finesse and slow down type fishing. Thanks for any help! Tight lines to all.

that’s a great lake to fish!! I have had multiple club tourneys out there over the years.
I will PM you wil some details on where we caught fish.
Where is your club out of?
D

The tournaments that we have had on Mudhen over the years have been in the pre-swan time periods.
On all these tourneys we caught the fish on the deeper weedlines on the NW corner and the NE/E side of the lake. The NE/E weedline has a nice break that has some great cabbage and coontail. As you continue south on this you weedline will com close to shore and then jet out again to the main lake. Key in on these bends as they tens to hold the majority of the fish that we caught. We caught the fish on jigs, traps and spinnerbaits here. In the NW courner there where some dense patches of weeds that held a fair number of larger fish. The North side of the lake is a big flat that you will be able to fan cast cranks and spinnerbaits to. If I remember correctly we caught a lot of numbers here but nothing to brag about in size.

.As the day warmed we caught more fish in the reeds and back bay just east of the launch. Even though I didn’t see it, this appears to be a main spawning bed. Here we caught more fish on cranks and finesse worms/tubes.

Hope this helps some, there are some real big fish in this lake.

Let me know how you do

Dan,

Thanks a ton!!

I sent you a PM too if you want to let me in on any “secrets” about the lake. Feel free to PM me if you think I can help with any lakes you might be fishing.

RoosterSlayer-

How did you and your club do over the weekend? The weather seemed to be in prime for you.