DATE: 4-25-09                  

 

LAKE/LOCATION: Lake Wauberg

 

WATER TEMP: 70’s

 

WATER COLOR & VISIBILITY: green, slightly dirty, ~1 ½’ visibility

 

WEATHER: the past few days have been consistently in the upper 70’s with lows only falling into the 50’s, today was the same, winds were out of the ESE at 10-15, sunny and clear with a high in the mid 80’s

 

 

ESTIMATED CALENDER PERIOD: ?spawn?, post-spawn, early summer

 

BITE TIMES:

                                                1^st 1lbs                         10:30

                                                2^nd 2.5lbs                     11:00

                                                3^rd 1lbs                         12:00

                                                4^th 1lbs                         14:00

                                                5^th 2lbs                         15:00

                                                6^th 2lbs                         15:30  

 

 

 

FISH BEHAVIOR: I basically went back and forth between fishing extra shallow and offshore.  Started off behind the floating pier with the sailboats and flipped the wanna be hyacinth.  There was movement however I only got one bite and didn’t get the fish on the edge of the grass.  I flipped the posts of the floating dock and ended up taking my first fish on the initial fall (I had been bit a couple times and then finally hooked the fish).  I got a few more bites off 2 of the poles but the rest were unproductive.  I moved to the little arrowhead bed next to one of the docks and took a 2.5lbs fish flipping a 1/2oz setup in the grass around the bed (reaction strike).

 

 

I went to the south end at that point and and flipped grass and some more wannabe hyacinth.  I ended up taking a 1 lbs fish from the first mat I sat on.  I took the fish pumping the bait and had sat on the matt for ~30min.  I flipped some more grass and pushed in to hit more matts – not another bite out of the matts.  A few of them had movement but no takers.  My 3^rd fish came flipping an isolated grass clump on the edge near the ski boat.

 

 

I then moved out and threw light straight worms at the docks on the south end.  Not all posts are equal and I had a fish follow up my worm from one and then caught him on the fall of the next cast.  ~20 min. later I took another fish off the exact same spot on the fall.  There were fish surfacing offshore, some seemed like bass but it was impossible to be sure.  I threw at them with no takers. 

 

 

Finally, I just went flipping on the east side.  I had no luck.  However, I ran into 4 or more ?post-bedding? fish protecting fry in less than a foot of water near the park benches.  At this point I only had 25 min. and I couldn’t get them to bite.  There were obvious beds however so there might still be a couple bedding.