Southeast Wisconsin Area Lakes, Rivers and Ponds

On at 9 off at 12:30, water 48, wind up and down all the time. Went through 100 wax worms. Kept 22, 7 1/2 to 8 1/2. Caught gills sun fish and bass. 4 feet of water. I only fished about an hour. Now the YADA YADA. Had my boy home for the weekend, he is gone. He is in stage 9 of Alzsheimer, a vegetable. He does not know who he is. Can not feed himself. A little over a year ago he was stage 6. Now the bad part. I fished with my wife today. Had to roll her off the pier to get her in the boat. That was the easy part, getting her out was a trip. Now for the really, really bad part. She was stage 4 Alzsheimers last year, now she is stage 6. She could handle a rod pretty good last year, not so good this year. I did all the baiting and taking fish off of her line. Also taking the tangles out of her line. I could not get her to close the bail as her bait hit the water. Nothing more to say. But if any one out there has any one they love with this crap. Give them all you got, time wise. Because it sneaks up on you fast and suddenly its too late to spend the time with them that they deserve. My best to you and yours.

The wind last night sank the ice on most Western Waukesha County Lakes. Bass Abductor was already pulling in 8 to 9 inch gills today on open water 

I got out today. Had to go alone. Getting harder and harder to find fresh meat. I hate going alone at my age. Getting hard to put the boat in alone, harder to get it out. Besides if I am alone. There is no one to blame for every thing that goes wrong. Can't take the warden, she is so weak she can barley get in and out of the car. The boat, not at all. First trip for my boat. Was worried about my batteries. Four years old, but ran my electric for two hours, no problems. Big motor started up before I even got my hand on the ​switch. Caught a limit of gills. Could have caught 200. But threw them all back, including my limit. Big gill of the day was 6 3/4 ​inch. Lots of crappies on the screen all over the lake. But they were giving me the FIN. Threw the tackle box at them. Should of threw a spear. Hope I can find someone to go out with next week. I don't mind if its 40 or 45. I be a die hard. Best of luck to all. As ​JORY says. HERO is great to fish with, if you can stand the verbal abuse. If you can, ​let me know. [email protected].

Did a search for some safe ice to fish on in Waukesha County.  Only found 1. Hunters Lake near Dousman.  Me and 6 other guys were out there. The 3 cold nights firmed up the top 2.5 inches of ice. There was a total of 4 inches. In the middle of February! On the safest lake!!. More 50 degree days coming,  I'm done ice fishing down here, I will be going 3 hrs nort for my next ice trip

This is from before the storm, but I'm guessing the water is still open and will be until the weekend. I'm thinking this is my last open water trip of the winter. Fished low and slow with the ​jerk minnow junior in hopes of finding big pike and big bass, but only found junior sized fish. ​

Covered a bunch of ground today in the Eastern Walworth  / Western Racine county area, to include some seldom skunked (tried and true) spots, and got skunked lol!

The smaller lakes (more like big ponds) had skim
Ice. Certainly not even close enough to walk on, but it did prevent us from fishing them!

The river spots were dead, dead, dead!  However given that it's almost January and can still open water fish, had to give it a whirl!

This is the first time this year we didn't get a bump, bite, or fish. 

I would do it all over again though!  Was a great day!

Unless we get a freak 50° day, likely done until hard water or spring!  

After 3 lakes (we were unable to fish), and two rivers ended the day with lots of good fresh air, so that's a win!

The ice is off everything now. I took the kayak out with some jerkbaits.  The suspending jerkbait worked, I thought this old perch colored one was a suspending one, but it floated, and the fish weren't going to chase that. I did find some takers by the drop offs.

Well decided today to go and check my favorite first ice location in Washington county. So I loaded up a reel and spud bar and off I went over the ridge and through the marsh I fell 3 time on the 300 yard venture . Get to the lake and there's ice hit it once solid hit again ok once more nope! WA WA WAH maybe 2 inches getting too old for this crap.  

Once again I am excited all day because of the insane winds, but by the time I get out for the last hour those winds weren't nearly as strong  ......again, saved by the football jig....got 3 nice ones in 6 casts...nothing giant, but nothing small either...had one good thump on a lipless just after sunset, but no hook up.

I swear if I wanted to throw a drop shot and was hoping for a calm day the winds would blow 30mph.

Ugh, I could only get out for the last hour or so...I got out there, and within 10 minutes the wind had shifted directions and  died down to nearly nothing...it was pretty frustrating....I got a few doing exactly the opposite of what I had planned on doing....without the wind pounding the weedbeds, I found no cooperation and ended up dragging a football jig down at 20-35 ft, which saved the night.....at least I wasnt cold.