Lake Geneva Report 08/15/08

[Lee Borgersen]

Friday 8/15 Report

 
Got a chance to fish with my three favorite people yesterday. Me. Myself, and I and it was a very relaxing day. Me asked Myself where I should fish today so, at 4:45 am we decided to troll the full moon with very large spinner baits with a trailer. Managed to whack 4 largemouth before daybreak trolling at 2 MPH.
 

As the sun came up I focused on deep breaks on the edge of a major food shelf in 28 to 36 ft and found more pike than smallies. Usually if you wait it out the pike tend to move out after they get done terrorizing an area, but not today. That meant it was time to leave.


Next spot was a sunken island that came up to 34 ft. I marked a few fish but they weren't cooperating and decided to move on. Stopped off and worked an off shore bar and popped 3 smallmouth along with some gills and pumpkins and the bite was very light.


I remembered an old saying "Go west Young Man Go west" So, Me, Myself, and I figured we'd give it a shot and headed west. I anchored on the edge of a steep break on a secondary food shelf (ledge) and hit pay dirt. The action was fast with an aggressive smallmouth bite. I could hardly manage two rods. Every once and a while a huge craft would come by and my anchor would drag off the spot and the bite would stop till I'd re-anchor. Leeches and crawlers worked about the same so I just stuck with crawlers for cost purposes.


Dead sticking (do nothing fishing) a foot off the bottom was the best presentation. The DNR stopped off for a quick visit and checked everything so it pays to have all your ducks in a row!
 

**Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.

See ya on the water,

Lee