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Southeast Wisconsin Area Lakes, Rivers and Ponds
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You can already do that rifleman...
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Posting my no boasting report :). Cold front came thru Sunday night. My freezer was almost out of filets because of family staying a couple weeks and they love fish frys. So I went to a deeper lake expecting them to not be shallow. I guy coming off as I was launching said big gills were in 20+ ft deep. I started out at 15 ft and found a large school of fish. It was 5 species. Not one was a gill tho. Parked it, and many fish were right under the boat. Bite was slow tho. Caught one fish every 7 or 8 minutes, even tho it was thick with them down below. I slight movement would get a strike. Sitting still or jigging fast didn't work. Kept 6 crappie around 11 inch and 6 perch around 9 inch. Released many rock bass, largemouth, and a couple smallie and gars
Nobody is forcing anyone to post a report. Nobody cares why you don't post a report. When you post on the Fishing Reports forum you are given the option to post as a "Fishing Report" or "Queston/Comment". If you select "Fishing Report", your post will have a blue bar in the header with the words "FISHING REPORT". Maybe this can be taken a step further and give the reader the option to select "reports" or "comments" (or both). Just throwing this out there for the next software iteration.
Vegas my points exactly! I used to post on here way back when, detailed reports, and I learned immediately it was a huge mistake! My spots, and hot bites were destroyed, and gone for good.
Almost nobody wants to educate themselves anymore on how to actually be a good fisherman seasonal patterns, what baits when, major/minor periods etc....I've put in literally tens of thousands of hours learning how to be good at fishing, like many others. Sorry all the people like me don't want to post a spot, a lake, or any details for people who don't want to figure it out for themselves anymore. All it does is kill every bit of effort we put it in to find those spots, or that bite. Other huge thing to is most guys don't practice selective harvest, and pillage lakes anytime possible to add to it.
Almost nobody wants to educate themselves anymore on how to actually be a good fisherman seasonal patterns, what baits when, major/minor periods etc....I've put in literally tens of thousands of hours learning how to be good at fishing, like many others. Sorry all the people like me don't want to post a spot, a lake, or any details for people who don't want to figure it out for themselves anymore. All it does is kill every bit of effort we put it in to find those spots, or that bite. Other huge thing to is most guys don't practice selective harvest, and pillage lakes anytime possible to add to it.
We were the only boat on the lake this morning. A couple shore fisherman trying there luck as well. We did well, 15 bass were caught and released. Most in the legal range biggest being 19 inches. Shallow water and lilypads producing the most on soft plastics.
This thread is the least likely thread to be "boast posting".
Take a cue from the fishing shows. They don't say where they are at, unless it is a huge body of water, or a body of water that they do not care about.
This is honestly one of the best fishing threads on lake-link for how it is treated by it's posters. Respectful.
Seems like a lot of fishermen now just want the "easy" way. Tell me where, tell me how. Gimme. Gimme. Gimme.
May sound like I'm jaded and I am. I have countless stories of helping out anglers only to have them grow a "hero complex" and destroy a spot or a bite. Or? Complete liars that "just want to catch my son/grandson/sick relative some fish".
Even had a guy "just want to put his son on fish". Muskies. I gave him a quick/simple milk run way up north. Then dude posted 7 pictures of fish from the little spot. Hero angler.
Had another guy who wanted to get his grampa musky. Then found out that he was fishing a tournament and wanted an under the radar bite.
Even had a joke of a guy in my boat for an event. Guy couldn't catch a fish in a stocked pond. Got 3 in a morning. Muskies. He went back to the same spot the next day, bought the baits I showed him and had 3 of his buddies in his boat. Then he calls me to complain about other guys fishing around him ruining the bite. And? A week later went out and got a guide license.
Anglers in general can have little respect. Give an inch and they take a mile.
Take a cue from the fishing shows. They don't say where they are at, unless it is a huge body of water, or a body of water that they do not care about.
This is honestly one of the best fishing threads on lake-link for how it is treated by it's posters. Respectful.
Seems like a lot of fishermen now just want the "easy" way. Tell me where, tell me how. Gimme. Gimme. Gimme.
May sound like I'm jaded and I am. I have countless stories of helping out anglers only to have them grow a "hero complex" and destroy a spot or a bite. Or? Complete liars that "just want to catch my son/grandson/sick relative some fish".
Even had a guy "just want to put his son on fish". Muskies. I gave him a quick/simple milk run way up north. Then dude posted 7 pictures of fish from the little spot. Hero angler.
Had another guy who wanted to get his grampa musky. Then found out that he was fishing a tournament and wanted an under the radar bite.
Even had a joke of a guy in my boat for an event. Guy couldn't catch a fish in a stocked pond. Got 3 in a morning. Muskies. He went back to the same spot the next day, bought the baits I showed him and had 3 of his buddies in his boat. Then he calls me to complain about other guys fishing around him ruining the bite. And? A week later went out and got a guide license.
Anglers in general can have little respect. Give an inch and they take a mile.
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