Beaver Dam Lake Dodge County

I just made the decision to dock my boat for the Summer at Beaver Dam Lake in Dodge County. To me, it seems as if it's not the best quality fishing lake due to lack of structure and a max. depth of 7', but it works best for my Family. My Wife has never fished before, but wants to and I bought a small pontoon last year. We went once on Fox Lake and hit some pretty good Bluegills, but She, nor I care too much what species we get. We just want to go out as a Family, with my young Daughter and fish. It's now almost mid July and we went out on Beaver Dam Lake yesterday with a very early start. we tried jigging with minnows, slip bobbers with crawlers, red worms, wax worms, and casting. One stray suicidal large bullhead must have run into my bait ha ha ha and thus we had one bite and one fish all day. I'm not looking for anyone's top secret place to share with the world, but any ideas would be appreciated, keeping in mind that I'm all in at Beaver Dam as I've rented a dock and bought a lift for my pontoon for ease of on and off the lake. Any locations and styles of fishing suggestions? yesterday, it was pea soup with algae and lots of weeds lakewide. HELP please !!!! Again, we just want to enjoy a little fishing 6 or 7 times a Summer.

Find rocks or stony points that stretch out into the lake. Fish will either be on the structure or slightly off from it. There are spots in the lake deeper than 7 feet. I know of one that is almost 10 feet deep. However, just because you may find deeper water - doesn't translate into a hot-spot necessarily. A lake with little structure means that for whatever structure you find - - the more likelihood you will find fish there as well. When navigating the rocky areas with your boat - be careful! The bottom can come up quickly in some areas even though you're a good ways off shore.

You picked a bad year this year its a scum hole, worst I have ever seen it

Go to the fish reports page, search for the lake you want, and the reports will pop up.