Southern Wisconsin Lakes Report

[Fishing Thrills Guide Service]

The Lakes of Southern Wisconsin are still giving up lots of many types of fish! The panfish on most lakes are finished spawning. They've moved to the outside weededges in 8- 12 ft of water. The larger lakes (Mendota, Monona and Geneva still have a few panfish in the shallows spawning due to cooler water. The best method for catching them has been a basic 1/64 OZ. Jig (Mini-Mite and Tube Style) in assorted colors, straight lined off the poles over the sides of the boat or jigs below a pencil bobber. A large number of blueglls are suspended out in the deep water in the upper 1/4 of water depth. Use a fish locator to find these schools and drift thru them with jigs weighted with a splitsot enough to keep the bait just above those fish. The bass and most of the walleye moved to deeper weed edges and are starting to school along those edges off points and inside turns in those weeds and also over the deep water mud. Trolling crankbaits and weighted spinners has been taking good numbers and fish up to 27 inches.
The Madison Chain has also been giving up numbers of large hard fighting clean catfish averaging 15 lbs!
Lake Geneva has been giving up good numbers of Bass off the breaklines. The Bass,Walleye and Northern Pike on Delavan are suspending off deep water weedlines and there are still some in the weeds themselves.