Sorry for the no reply, I’m sure he just forgot about the thread. Anyway those were caught on a carolina rigged lizard

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By definition the water deeper than the thermocline level should be void of fish but in my experience I have just not seen it.

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I don’t know what you call the definition of thermocline (that sounds like the “some guy at the boat launch definition” ), but I’m pretty sure the real definition is only related to rate of temperature change wrt depth change. Anyway having a thermocline doesn’t mean there’s insufficient DO below that level.
Look at it this way colder water can have a higher level of DO, so before the lake develops the thermocline there is good DO in that volume of deeper water, now after it stratifies the DO gets used up a little at a time by fish and other organisms. So whether or not the levels drop significantly during the summer has a lot to do with the initial DO level,total volume of water below the thermocline vs. the amount of DO being consumed by fish etc.
Anectdotally most big deep clear lakes support populations of ciscoes, whitefish etc. which you can consistently mark big schools well below the thermocline all summer long. And where there’s baitfish…

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Wow, what did it come on? Any other details you are willing to share.

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he caught on a c-rigged 5″ lizard on a sand point that slopes from about 2 ft – 12 ft with scattered weeds.
It was caught on a lake in northern wisconsin, and not on the river, but I posted it here since a bunch of you know Glenn.

not from the river, but here’s one

a bunch moreof my 2004 pictures

I have never seen someone who caught so little sound like such an expert… remind me again how many bass you caught that day, oh yeah and how many logs, trees, and sticks
sorry I couldn’t resist

there’s a bunch of smallmouth in the lake, and some big musky, pike and walleye are just trash fish in my book . If I remember right there’s a full moon around the first of june, so when you’re up there there will still be a lot of the smallmouth on beds, the ones that have finsihed will be out roaming sand & gravel flats and should be real aggressive. You’ll probably be a little early for the deeper weeds to be coming up good so I’d stay stick to shallower bays, and rock bars for musky, but I’m not really an expert on them.
I don’t know where sandy beach road is off hand, but if you don’t have access to a boat, you better be ready to make some long casts some of those flats on the south shore go out a couple hundred yards before dropping off

we were up there most all day monday and for a while on tuesday (may 18 & 19) and yes there are smallmouths in the shallows and I’m sure they’ve been in there for a while. Depending on where we were we saw water temps from 47-51, but most of the time where we were fishing was 49-50

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Spotted a Silver Tahoe in the Long landing again Saturday. I meant to make it down but family time ran long and I had other obligations back in the home town. Was that you or another imposter?

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I was on long saturday, but my tahoe is dark grey so I think you spotted an imposter. Did you notice all the trailers in the lot I think it was completely full by afternoon. A lot of the people were out chasin’ muskies.

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What was the productive presentation this weekend? Plastics or were you still “spinning” for trout?

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a little from column A and a little from column B… The fish in the shallow wood went best for the spinnerbaits burned then stopped next to a log. Fish in the deeper wood and cribs seemed to be more interested in slow dragging plastics. Pattern was pretty similar sunday on another lake

As a side FYI the lake has cleared up nicely since the turnover its probably about 6-7 ft visibilty after being less than 3 all summer. Water temps still 52-54 which is basically unchanged for the last 3 weeks

as you know I’m not the sort of guy who would make fun of your misfortune… so I figured I’d help analyze the data

skunked huh? mystery huh?
… I reckon there’s just no pumpkinseedds in that there lake

or maybe all the fish are just IN the lake instead of up in the trees where your lures spend all their time
sorry I couldn’t resist

one from sunday

21″

A few more from this weekend…

another shot of the scenery

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don’t concern yourself with the effects of turnover on Wissota there are plenty of fish to be had without going to 25+ ft of water. I was out this afternoon/tonight and all the decent fish came off of wood. Nothing off of docks and only small fish off of rocks(which is kind of the norm)
as a side note check out the colors on the trees

Actually Glenn and I were on pool 5 on the river saturday, we caught a bunch of smallies but they were SMALLies only 1 quality fish

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Nice to hear you got a real fisherman out with you! Spend less time shakin’ down trees??? I’ll have to practice up in the off season so you won’t “beach the rookie”.

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we definitely spent less time shakin down trees

and this week’s edition of “crazy things I’ve caught on a spinnerbait” is… a rainbow trout. Its no pumpkinseed, but unusual nonetheless

here is a 20 1/2 ” smallmouth from this sunday caught on a tube. As a side note for anyone who is wondering, pretty much all of the lakes in NW WI turned over during the cold weather last week.

In my opinion… not worth it. I got some from gander when they were 1/2 priceand tried them out. personally I think the benefit of a floating plastic on a C-Rig is minimal, I don’t like the way it goes through the water nose down, and I think a drop shot rig is a better way to achieve the goal of keeping your plastic suspended off the bottom. As a jig trailer for a craw imitation its fine, but I can get the same effect witha standup style jig and regular trailer.
I will say that the durability is great as advertised, but as far as getting more bites with them I’m far from sold on them

kid, the simple trick with the pictures is to ALWAYS make sure the sun is behind the camera (so the subject is looking into the sun) even on a dark day like we had it makes a big difference.

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Well, anyone that waits around to board a “Pup” with a bad case of jabber-jaw

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you forgot to mention waits around to board a pup who showed up 2 HOURS LATE

Hopefully if there’s a next time I’ll put us on a little better quality sized fish

The sand lake we were at is the one in Rusk Co. near Island lake. The one by spooner?? do you mean the one by the junction of hwy 27 & 70?

wow, I think thats the first time I’ve ever heard someone actually say anything good about fusion, I hated the stuff when I tried it but to each his own. I personally use mostly p-line and 10x silver thread (both co-polymers). Both are great in my opinion for toughness and durability, but I prefer the silver thread for slightly less memory than p-line. When I do use superline its power pro

no official weight, it wasn’t really all that big of a fish, just big around . It was probably a 17 1/2″ long and weighed a little under 4 lbs by my best guess.

As far as the spawning goes I’d say the fish on this lake were at least a week off maybe a little more. Hard to picture it getting fatter yet if it continues to feed another week.

the WDNR has a book of all the named lakes by county and what species are in them and relative abundance. You can download it in pdf format here WI Lakes Directory

Saturday I was on a couple of real clear lakes just south of hayward and had temps from 47-50. Saw about 5 walleyes in the shallows for every 1 smallmouth. For smaller and darker lakes I would expect to be 5 deg. warmer and I would expect that the majority of the lakes will 3-5 deg during this week from last weekend. For what its worth, tuesday afternoon here on Wissota I had temps as high as 57 deg.

here are pics of a couple big smallmouth we caught & released this weekend.

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I had no scale in the boat so no official weights. Dad’s fish measured 20 3/4 and mine was 20 1/4, however due to the extreme girth of the fish measuring them on a flat surface was putting a noticable bend in them so they were probably more like 1/2″ longer than they measured. For what its worth my guesstimates on weight were 6 1/2 – 7 lbs for his fish and 5 1/2 for mine.

Both fish were caught on suspending jerkbaits fished with 5-10 second pauses.

I will refrain from naming the lake they were caught on. I know of a handful of lakes in northwest wisconsin that are capable of fish of this quality, and I hope to avoid concentrating too much pressure on any single lake (especially with spawning season coming up in the next 3-4 wks). If you are interested in fishing in the area, you can email or pm me and I will give info on some of the lakes.

thanks to all for the compliments.

here’s one of me

here’s another shot of it

I have a dissenting opinion…. here is a link to a thread on the kinetic reels from last fall on this forum.
However I also thought the reel was great until the anti-reverse stopped working

I assume Redrock / Shartke are talking about the Balsam in Polk county??? Never been there, but If its the one in Barron/washburn co. that’s connected to Red Cedar I can help you out some.