Sunday 6-4-06
John, Kevin and Alex Menard had planned on going fishing with me last year. For several reasons though, it never did work out. Sunday, they were finally able to get out and enjoy a day of fishing for walleyes and saugers on Lake Wisconsin. Usually, these guys do their fishing from shore and if they end up catching some nice bluegills, thats considered a pretty good day. They had been anticipating catching walleyes and saugers on this trip for quite some time.
Fortunately, the fishing for walleyes and saugers on Lake Wisconsin continues to be excellent. June is usually the best month of the year and it is certainly going to be hard for any other month to match this Junes hot bite so far. This is John with a very nice 19" sauger he caught.
In all, the Menard clan reeled in 29 walleyes and saugers, fifteen of them were legal size fish between 15-20" long. Night crawler rigs fished in 12-16′ of water continues to be the bait of choice.
Surface water temperatures are running as high as 76 degrees in parts of the main lake basin. Pretty warm for this time of year.
Alex is showing off his best sauger to date. A nice, fat 18" fish.
Each of these guys caught their largest saugers ever on this trip. Congratulations guys!
John currently holds the record for traveling the farthest of any client just to go fishing with me on Lake Wisconsin. He calls London, England his home. Actually, he traveled here to visit his son Kevin and his family. While here, a fishing trip seemed like a really good idea.
Nice fish John! It was great to fish with you, Kevin and Alex. I was very pleased to be able to share my favorite hobby with a true Englishman.
Alex, a freshman at Cambridge High School just south of Madison, is showing his biggest sauger to date. It actually measured 16" long but due to the lousy photo I took, it doesn’t look very big. Sorry about that Alex! We’ll get you a bigger one next time and I promise to take more than one picture.
Saturday, 6-3-06
Today, I spent the day fishing with Jim Rhodes and his daughter Jane O’Malley.
We went with the crawler rigs again today, but it took some work to get them to bite. The bite was slow with only a fish here and there, but we kept at it and by the end of the day, Jim and Jane ended up with a pretty nice limit of legal walleyes and saugers. We did try trolling crankbaits for and hour or two, but the only fish interested was a nice 13" crappie that Jim caught.
We caught all our fish in water between 12 and 16 feet deep again today.
Jim and Jane, I had a great time sharing my boat with you two today, hope you guys come back for the crappie bite this fall
Take care and tight lines!
Boog