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Lake Monona

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9/18/23 @ 1:09 PM
FISHING REPORT
wi river rat
User since 4/2/02
Not much has changed since my last report.  The six week gill bite continues.  Out yesterday and threw back forty between 7.5 and 8.0 inches. Those were the ones I took time to measure.  Crappies still hit and miss.  Am a bit concerned that I'm not catching many small ones.  Didn't catch many small ones this spring either.  I know for meat eaters that's good but it's been my experience that the crappie population can be boom and bust on Monona. I like catching them but prefer gill meat for eating.  Although I've noticed when you catch a crappie and people who are not catching crappie who want to be, you instantly have "friends" or as Rat calls them "not my friends".  What they are called is also very dependent on Rat's mood that particular day. If you catch my drift..... 

Oops I did it again.  A Sunday morning accident.  Luckily one of my "friends" had a Leatherman's tool. Of course he was I hadn't caught any crappies yet.  Rat.
Lake Monona photo by wi river rat
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9/14/23 @ 10:23 PM
rk_diver
rk_diver
User since 8/18/03
Been out scanning Monona the last few trips out. Big flock of seagulls on the water making a bunch of noise, assumed they were over some White Bass. As I'm getting close to them to check an earlier sonar hit I took a screen snapshot of all the fish I was going over. Dropped the camera down to check the sonar hit and I saw the fish on the sonar again so I lifted up the camera and yup, all White Bass! Last year at this time I shot some video of a ton of Gills (and other fish) on a larger piece of structure. Went over it again today and shot some video of Gills stacked up again along with some Crappies. Sheepsheads were also schooled up around the base of the structure. Water temp yesterday out past Olbrich was 66°F, over off Schluter Beach area it was 71°F. Today it was 69.1°F. Little cool this morning first thing but warmed up nicely! Anxious for this fall to get some decent clarity again. I've been scanning grid sections and have over 200 sonar hits to look at. With the poorer clarity right now it makes it tougher to get onto and see smaller targets. Over 200 new sonar hits to try and identify. Only identified four logs in (four different) depressions today, and one tire. No time to get bored! :) 
Lake Monona photo by rk_diver
Lake Monona photo by rk_diver
9/1/23 @ 10:04 AM
FISHING REPORT
wi river rat
User since 4/2/02
Out yesterday.  Blue gills triple dog dare ya stupid. They bit every thing I threw at them. I literally had a bite on a bare yellow jighead during the gill fest. You can see in the pic my hand is beat up a bit.  Can't wait to paint my small deck after work today.  You know there is no way on this Earth I would tell my wife my hand is too sore too paint. "Well maybe you shouldn't fish Sunday".  No way no how.  Good luck this weekend.  Rat.
Lake Monona photo by wi river rat
8/18/23 @ 12:16 PM
FISHING REPORT
wi river rat
User since 4/2/02
Rat weekly report- or so.  Gills getting more stupider in the places I fish.  Lot's of yoy minnows right now and the perfect size for gills to eat.  Tip your plastic minnow presentation with spikes or waxies and get ready for action. Or downsize your hooks and use small crappie minnows. Crappies still finicky but as the water cools and we move into fall they will eventually get more stupider especially at dusk. Good luck out there.  Rat.
8/12/23 @ 5:33 PM
FISHING REPORT
Tito39
User since 7/6/04
Fished with a buddy and my son-in-law. Slow bite drifting in 10-15  FOW. Red  tube with a waxie did most of the damage. All gills and enough for a couple of frys. 
8/11/23 @ 1:28 PM
rk_diver
rk_diver
User since 8/18/03
Not much to report from this mornings trip, water temp at 77.4°F. Wind wasn't bad when I got out there, only one other vehicle in main lot at Olbrich. Whitecaps when I called it a day. Still marking suspended schools and a bunch of gills, crappies and sheepshead on a piece of structure I checked.
8/11/23 @ 10:38 AM
FISHING REPORT
wi river rat
User since 4/2/02
Out on a boat last night 6 to 8:30.  Took a while to find gills but when we did it was on.  Weed line sitting in 11 to 12 feet casting towards shore.  I just cast/retrieve buddy uses slip bobber.  We both tipped our plastics with wax worms and spikes.  The gills have been very active between 7 and 8 pm all summer.  It's hard to know for sure if we would of found'm at this spot at six versus seven how the action would of been.  It was spot that my buddy and his dad marked back in 2012.  They hadn't fished it since then.  Rat.
8/11/23 @ 9:00 AM
FISHING REPORT
rattletrap
rattletrap
User since 6/17/01
Sunny 80°
Water: 78°
Docks
fished from 6.30 to 1pm  lot of bass (mostly small) from west side docks  finally found several keeps on the south side.  cpr  nothing on toopwater, 2 on a bladed jig.  most caught on soft stick bait  more current in river than I've seen all year, nice  good luck all  RT
8/9/23 @ 9:14 AM
Bennycatchfish
Bennycatchfish
User since 1/13/15
https://outdoorskilled.com/muskies-swim-with-their-head-out-of-the-water/
8/9/23 @ 9:08 AM
Scaliwag
User since 7/16/01
been fishing the Madison chain since the early 60's. We have seen many pike with this behavior. we coined it Alligatoring. Still not exactly why they do it. 
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