Lake Geneva Report 08/27/07

[Lee Borgersen]

 

Fished today Aug 27th from 5:30 am till 11:15 am with new clients Todd Meyer from South Jersey and his brother-in-law Mat from Williams bay. We had a close one right off the bat while fishing anchored. A fisherman in a black and white Champion boat came heading full throttle right at us for a direct broad side collision course.
 
As he got closer and closer we figured he saw us and was just ignorant. We were wrong, he wasn't ignorant just very careless. When he was almost on us I noticed that he was looking behind instead of forward and never saw us. I yelled at the top of my lungs and he looked forward and veered off to the right. In all my times on the water that was the closest call ever.

No, I didn't forget the actual fishing report. We fished anchored all morning in 28 to 43 fow working crawlers and leeches. I positioned the boat on the top of a steep break so we could cast down to 43 ft on one side of the boat and to 28 ft on the other side. Most of the hits came with the bait in a dormant position with a lot of shaking and stop technique. We wound up with 20 nice legal size smallies and 15 more under 14 inches. The sky's were mostly cloudy with a frontal system sitting on the north edge of the lake most of the morning.

Finally the wind switched from south to North followed by distant lightning. At this point we opted to head for the launch and just beat the bad weather.

Experience usually is what you get when you don't get what you want, but if there were no such thing as optimism, there would be no such thing as fishing.

See ya on the water,

Lee