Lake Geneva Report 8/4&5/06

[Lee Borgersen]

Aug 4th Fished Friday with Glen Gast. Glen has his own boat, but decided this year that he needed a little help on spots and techniques. He booked a June trip in the Spring and an August Summer outing for yesterday. He's also going out with me again in October for some Fall fishing tips and tactics. Friday was a sunny day, but we got lucky with a west wind changing to N/W and once more to N/E.
Smallmouth Bass was what we were targeting fishing in 27 to 37 fow. Carolina Rigs were working well along with dead sticking producing equally as well. We managed to boat 23 smallies and had our share of break offs. Anchoring was the way to go for us. Glen has been an excellent pupil and has improved on his fishing skills this year. Looking forward to hooking up again with him in October.

August 5th Fished today with a father and son team Ron and Jeff Ocherlund along with their friend Frank Zummo. We were out from 5:15 am till 12:30 pm. Even though we weren?t targeting pike it was hard to get the message across to the pike. Every spot we fished the pike seemed to show up and put a temporary halt the the smallie action. Normally they cruse in and raise a little havoc and cruse on down the road with the smallie action returning to normal. Today they were hungry and decided to pick on us. Several of today's pike were ripped up pretty good from prior hooking and we also saw 3 others swimming the surface having lost the ability to stay submerged.

We did very well on the smallies today using the same tactics as yesterday's approach. Two of our spots today were completely dead, but we were able to land on our feet working other spots. Lost count on the smallies today, but I'm sure were in the mid 20's

REMEMBER: "Knowledge is the key to successful fishing."

See you on the water, Lee Borgersen



Field Editor Report by Lee Borgersen
Lee's Lake Geneva Guide Service
(847) 593-7592
leeborgersen@msn.com

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