Southeast Wisconsin Area Lakes, Rivers and Ponds

Geneva and Delevan hold really nice ones as does Paddock and Powers.

Any decent areas around other than BVD for nice size bullheads??

Was out Sunday on a small SE WI lake, figured the warmth and wind would have the fish active.  Tried deeper weed edges first as usual but did not locate any fish.  Went shallow and found them against the bank and reed grass.  The key was to practically drop a topwater lure on them to get a reaction strike.  Was in the kayak so did not get a water temp.

Rock River around Horicon Marsh area nothing doing yet water temp maybe too cold yet not even a small one been out ​5 times already and nothing pretty disappointing 

Crushed them on a popular lake Sunday. Like taking candy from a baby. Shallow.

Crappies are definately turning on.  This deep clear lake held fish in 10' of water.  I fished 3' down under a bobber.  Minnows worked but gold jig with orange power bait worm with waxie was also very good.  Water temp upper 50's to lower 60's.   BB

Had a good day Crappie fishing. 

Yesterday, on at 8, off, at 3. Water 44 when we started, 49 when we left. Way too much wind, limited where we could fish. But, when the wind died, so did the fishing. Well not the fishing, but the catching got lean. Never did find the Crappies. Lots of sorting. Between the two of us, well over 200 came in to the boat, but only 25 stayed for supper. One thing I will tell you, is you can not fish with too small of a lure in the spring. The jigs I was using were About a half a ​gram. Took 4 of them to make 2 grams. They were ​had hook sizes of 10 and 12. I had to cut the one inch gulp in half, in order to hook ​catch them. As the day went on and the water warmed. I went to 3/4 on an inch, then the full size. ​Pard put on some scrubs to see if he could get bigger fish. He could not even get a bite. Went right back to the small presentation. All of our fish were caught with them. We be talking ​15 bass, gills to 8 1/2, big sunfish, up to 9 1/2. If you get lucky and find some real active fish, ​you may be able to get away with out a bobber. But till the water hits around 57, the bobber works better. You can still pop it along the surface, but you have to stop after 2 or 3 pops and let it sit, then pop it again.
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fished a SE lake Monday morning, water temps were cool, 43 to 45, got into one little protected bay and saw thousands of small panfish, mostly gills, but among all of those fish we caught a small crappie and a 16" LM, a bit of a surprise. also got 1 hammer handle pike in the main lake. water needs to warm up for a better bite.

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