Lake Onalaska gills are heating up

  • amwatson
    Holmen,WI
    Posts: 5130
    September 3, 2006 at 12:26 am #1311365

    The kids and I got out on the lake this afternoon in hopes of finding some good gill action. I had heard from co-workers that the fall run was starting to heat up so I figured this was a great time to hit the water with the kids. The fishing wasn’t spectacular yet, but we still had a great time. The bite was very sporadic, when a school came through they would hammer whatever you had down there. We had a lot of small ones mixed in with some nice bull gills. Presentation was pretty basic; a small baitholder hook and a split shot fished about 6″ up from the bottom. We had the best luck in the deeper channels on the lake with water depths around 10-12′ mixed with a weedy bottom. Small chunks of crawler as well as waxies both brought fish to the boat. The kids had a blast and I had a relaxing time watching them catch quite a few fish.

    amwatson
    Holmen,WI
    Posts: 5130
    September 3, 2006 at 12:28 am #474593

    One more pic

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    September 3, 2006 at 1:29 pm #474650

    Nice fish guys
    It looks like it was a nice day to be on the water

    tony_p
    Waterloo, IA
    Posts: 1792
    September 4, 2006 at 2:37 pm #474804

    Those are some nice gills , looks like the kids had a blast .

    Jay Jones
    Onalaska Wi
    Posts: 107
    September 4, 2006 at 5:41 pm #474833

    Took the kids out this morning, still going but the bigger fish were closer to the weedlines for us. Wax worms on ice jigs.

    bill_cadwell
    Rochester, Minnesota
    Posts: 12607
    September 5, 2006 at 12:14 pm #474966

    Nice fish. Theres nothing like catching big gills on light tackle to bring out the ”little kid” in all of us. Lots of FUN. Thanks for the report and pics.
    Thanks, Bill

    mikehd
    Dousman, WI
    Posts: 965
    September 7, 2006 at 5:12 pm #476176

    Sounds like a great time Wats. There’s nothing more fun than watching kids have a great time fishing.

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