We’re in the Dog days of Summer where the weather seems better for lounging at the beach then watching your bobber. The Hot days and warm nights keep most of the fish in the shelter of deeper water. Anglers are still catching fish but you’ve got to set your alarm clock to sunrise or earlier. […]

Summer has finnally arrived! With the daytime temps in the 80’s it will be best to start hitting the water early before it gets too hot or wait until evening when it starts cooling back down. The heat is starting to push the fish into deeper water, however a few gills are still being caught […]

I remember joking with a customer earlier in the spring that everything is so far behind this year that we’ll be catching Bluegills on the beds during the 4th of July. Here we are entering the last week of June and anglers are still catching Bluegills on beds some still full of eggs yet. It […]

It has been an extremely good week for fishing. The weather is feeling a lot more like Summer and the water temperature is finally on the rise and making the Bluegills, Sunfish and both Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass move in to shallower water to spawn. The Bluegill and Sunfish have been easy to catch. As […]

With the cooler weather we’ve had most of the spring, everything seems to be a couple weeks later then we’re used to. Normally June 1 would be right in the middle of the Bluegill spawn but it’s really just starting now. They’ve been hiding for the last few weeks with anglers catching one here and […]

Happy Memorial Day! Thankfully we’ve been finally blessed with a few nice days in a row. It’s been a very peculiar Spring so far. Unseasonably cold weather and rain have kept the water temperatures low making all of the springtime spawning late for whichever fish you target. Normally Crappie start spawning around Mothers Day but […]

This time last year both lakes were open water, but this year we still have almost 2 feet of ice covering both lakes. It won’t last much longer, the top is starting to get soft and you can see it start to open up and erode a little more each day by the canal. There […]

The weather has hit one extreme to the other in the last couple weeks with below zero temperatures to blizzard conditions and now 40’s and rain. But everything turned out good for the NASF Ice Fishing Contest. There was a few hundred participants in this years contest and some really nice fish brought in. Many […]

This has been the first really cold week this winter. Good for ice conditions, but it really cuts down on the enthusiasm for being outside. Both lakes have around a foot of ice and some are even driving trucks out there now. For those who braved the bitterness this past weekend some were rewarded with […]

As far as Ice Fishing goes we are very fortunate where we live. There are not many lakes south of US-10 that have any good ice and all the big deep lakes to the north still remain open. However where we are located in the middle we have from 6-9″ of ice. Enough ice that […]