Lake Onalaska report

Today I got out on the lake with my son and had some quality time away from the girls (there are 4 of them ) With the high winds, cold temps, and the on and off snow squalls I told Kaiden we might not have much luck. Good thing my predictions were wrong

We fished in about 8 fow (no flasher so just a guess). We did however have the Fish TV camera that gave us some entertainment. By the way, so far the camera works pretty darn good for being an el’ cheapo.

I hooked Kaiden up with a black Gill Pill and right off the bat he was catching fish. I on the other hand switched baits a lot and caught a lot of dinks on everything I used.
We were tipping the baits with waxies or red worms and both caught about the same amount of fish.
I was the king of dinks while the little guy caught about a dozen good sized gills.

The lake itself has around 4″ of ice, but is covered in at least 8″ of snow and also has a lot of slushy areas Hopefully it will freeze up sometime in the near future because walking in that mess is no fun at all.

We were out there today too and went SW of the landing by Schaefers. Very few fish and less ice. We were fishing on maybe 2-2 1/2″ and were very uncomfortable. There was at least 4″ water on the ice there. After 3 hrs of that we left and found fish elsewhere……not many there either.

Wow, I’m surprised at how little ice you guys had. Fished 2 areas today, and while the fishing was not spectacular for me, I had 6″ at a fairly shallow (5-10 ft) spot and 5+ at a very deep spot. Caught a big bass on a tip up and a bunch of bass on the jig sticks. A few decent crappies and two pig gills. Tomorrow will bring a change of plans to try and get on more fish!