LacLaBelle, Waukesha County

Spent monday and Tuesday afternoons on the lake, whcih is still no-wake due to high water. Launching requires two guys, or one with waders, as the docks are still submerrged, and you have to drive thru a foot or so of water to reach the launch apron. A friend and I are taking residents of the Shorehaven Senior living center out for some fishing once a month for the season, and Tuesday was our first such outing, using the center’s pontoon boat. So we prefished it on Monday and got about 25 fish in 3.5 hours, jumping from spot to spot after locating fish. Had a mixed bag of cookie cutter eyes ( fifteen fish, 14 to 18 inches), and smallies and LM (12 to 16 inches) plus a 30 inch pike that nipped and missed my tube and smacked my buddies Rapala. All fish caught in 6 to 12 FOW on tube jig, paddletail, jig/minnow, and cranks. So we pushed off on Tuesday with 6 guests in a big ole pontoon, feeling pretty confident that we could put them on some fish. But with 20 mph winds blowing up the lake, we couldn’t stay anchored in our A,B, or C spots. found shelter in a couple of fairly quiet bays, and managed to get 3 eyes into the boat, 14 to 17 inches. But they were real troopers and never gave up, realizing that this was fishing, and quipping that they’ve heard the “should’ve been here yesterday” line a million times.
This is a good action, mixed bag lake, that includes big skis…saw one cruiser on Monday that I’d guess was mid 40’s. If you want to get some little kids or big kids into fish, this lake’s a pretty good bet. The decent eye bite outside the weed edges should go for a few more weeks. Don’t come for eaters, though, since the bag limit is one over 20 inches. Have yet to get one that size out here.

Thanks for the report Z-man, sounds like you covered a good amount of water but found some decent fish

You are a good man Charlie Brown for taking out senior citizens. My hat is off to you sir.

Just hoping for some paybacks when I get up there….

Back out today with our Shorehaven friends for our second monthly outing, and the weather treated us much better. Light winds made it a cinch to keep the pontoon anchored in the spots we wanted to fish, 12 to 14 fow just off the weed lines. Boated about a dozen eyes, 14 to 17 inches or so, lost about 6, 1 LM, and hooked into two skis, a 42 or so, and a 36. Didn’t boat either, as they bit off after a few minutes of fight on the walleye tackle, but the guests had a hoot while the fight lasted. Fathead with hook/split shot took most of the eyes today,with very light bites….just hanging on. I threw plastic all afternoon, and had only two hits/fish.
My buddy fished Sunday with his daughter and boated about 30 eyes, all under 20 inches off course, plus a few bass. backtrolling the edge of weedlines was the ticket. His daughter boated a 45 inch ski and after he hand-landed the fish, was holding it up for a pic, lost control of it, and took some nasty teeth in the left thumb, 6 stitches worth.
Pretty good action going on right now, with fish still hanging just outside the weed edge and pretty easy to find, especially if you move around some.