07/07/07 Delavan Lake clear 79 degrees. Winds light and variable becoming 5-10 mph later morning. H20 77 degrees. The early A.M. bite was excellent today ending up with a mixed bag. We fished the 10-17' range for bass/walleye ending up with around 20 bass ranging from 14-17" with a few over 3#. We also caught 2 walleyes one being 20 1/2" and the other 16". We caught around 15 gills in the 8-9" range sending them back to the depths. We switched gears fishing pike drifting suckers in 20-25' without marking fish, moving in to 16-20' catching 3 pike 24-28".

07/02/07 Geneva Lake clear 64 degrees. Winds calm. H20 72 degrees. I trolled Geneva once again 12:30-6:00 A.M. ending up with only rockies again. We switched gears and slip bobbered for a couple hours ending up with 2 small smallmouth and many rockies and gills. We ended up fishing Williams Bay later in the morning catching some real "bullgills" in the 9-10" range in 18-25' of water on crawlers.

07/01/07 Geneva Lake overcast 65 degrees. Winds calm. H20 74 degrees. I decided to troll the "graveyard shift" for eyes tonight 11:00-3:30 A.M. We ended up with many rockies and one smallie 17". We need some heat units to get the JULY RUN on a roll! We fished slip bobbers for an hour or so coming up with rockies and some nice gills in the 9-10" range in 10-15' water.

06/29/07 Elizabeth Lake overcast/clear 70 degrees. Winds NE 10-15 mph. H20 temp 78 degrees. I had the opportunity to fish with Bob Riepenhoff from the Milwaukee Journal today on Elizabeth to do a lake profile for the Sunday sports section. We ended up with a largemouth double header in the first few minutes on the water to find us searching for bass for the next hour or two. We found an underwater point on a defined weedline fishing 12-17' of water ending up with a mixed bag of bluegills/bass/crappies. We ended up with around 6 bass ranging from 8-12", several gills 7-8" and some nice crappie topping out at 12". All in all we had a good day learning new water.

06/28/07 Delavan Lake clear 80 degrees. Winds light and variable. H20 temp. 78 degrees. We fished the mid-morning bite for pike ending up with 6 pike running a little small 24-30" fishing Lindy rigged suckers in 17-20' of water drifting. We changed gears fishing for bass/walleye catching 28 largemouth and smallies in 10-17' of water using crawlers on a split shot rig. The bass ranged from 17-21" with one reaching 5.7#. The walleyes were hiding out today in the weeds only giving us one short 16" eye.

06/27/07 Delavan Lake clear high pressure front 82 degrees. Winds calm. H20 temp. 77 degrees. We ended up with 2 walleyes 15-17", 3 smallies 16-18 1/2", 12 largemouth 15-17" and many gills in the 7-9" range. All were caught using crawlers and leeches in 12-18' of water.

06/25/07 A few more pics from today........

06/25/07 Delavan Lake clear/sunny 80 degrees. Winds calm. H20 temp 80 degrees. We fished the early evening bite today with a great mixed bag! We ended up with 8 pike 30-34" caught drifting suckers in 20-27' of water early in the afternoon. We tore up the largemouth catching 41 bass total ranging from 14-20 1/2" with many over 4# and one reaching 6.4#. The smallies we caught ranged from 16-19 3/4" reachung 5.1#. We did'nt end up with any eyes but my clients had a blast reeling in some impressive bass! We caught many gills in the 7-9" range but sent them back to swim.

06/24/07 Geneva Lake clear 67 degrees. Winds light and variable SSW 5 mph. H20 temp. 75 degrees. The early A.M. bite was excellent today catching a mixed bag. We ended up with 6 smallies ranging 14-19", 15 gills 8-10", 10 perch 7-10", 4 largemouth 14-17" and of course around 50 rockies. My clients wnted only a few to take home for a meal, great stewards of the fishery!

06/23/07 Geneva Lake sunny/clear 74 degrees. Winds calm. H20 temp. 73 degrees. We hit the artificial only bite which was quite the challenge with the boat traffic and high pressure system combination. We ended up with 3 bass caught on drop shots in the 8-10' range. We did see others doing well using crawlers and leeches. we still had a blast trying to grow "sea legs" and trying to stay above water with the traffic rollers.

06/23/07 A few more pics from this morning........

06/23/07 Delavan Lake sunny 70 degrees. Winds light and variable. H20 temp. 76 degrees. We had a lot of fun today with the father son/daughter outing. It was great to see a little sibling rivalry! The largemouth/smallmouth bite was great early. We ended up with around 40 lagremouth and smallmouth ranging between 14-20" caught on crawlers and leeches. We switched gears to fish pike later in the morning only rousting up three pike 30-31 1/2". We had quite a few follow ups reeling in panfish on the weedline, but the pike we ended up catching were in 17-24' of water. The pleasure boat traffic was out of control by 9 a.m. today, unbelievable!

FATHERS DAY!

06/17/07 Delavan Lake sunny 85 degrees. Light winds. H20 80 degrees. My son tore up the pike fishing today! We ended up with 10 pike ranging from 28-34" all caught on suckers in 18-25' adjacent to weed flats. We switched gears later to fish bass and walleyes ending up with 3 eyes 15-17" and a few nice bass between 15-17" all caught in 15-18'. Most of the gill we caught were in the deeper water.

06/14/07 Geneva Lake sunny 87 degrees. Winds light and variable. H20 temp 71 degrees. The smallie bite was a little slow with the high pressure, but we ended up with 4 smallies ranging from 14-19" all caught on crawlers. We also ended up with around 50 gills and rockies, sending home a meals worth with my clients. Most of the fish were caught in the 18-25' range.

06/13/07 Delavan Lake sunny 85 degrees. Winds calm. H20 temp. 78 degrees. We ended up with 1 pike 31" caught on a leech in 12' water, 4 walleyes caught on leeches on 14-17', and nice gills caught in 10-12' on crawlers. Again the stationary high pressure system is hanging around.

06/12/07 Delavan Lake sunny 88 degrees. Winds 5-10 mph. H20 temp. 75 degrees. I had the opportunity to fish with Bob Riepenhoff of the Milwaukee Journal today. We were going to focus on dropshotting, but the fishing was quite slow today. We ended up with afew surface feeding smallies by casting out tubes and twitching them just under the surface. This high pressure front has created some tough fishing.

06/11/07 Delavan Lake Sunny/Partly cloudy 80 degrees. Winds light and variable to calm. H20 temp. 74 degrees. Fishing was a little slow today with the high pressure front upon us. We ended up with a few smallies and walleyes ranging between 14-17". we rousted up one pike at 28". Most fish were caught in the 18-24' range fishing slower than slow. A challenging day to say the least.

06/09/07 Delavan Lake clear 65 degrees. Winds calm. The early A.M. bite was excellent today. We ended up with 20 largemouth ranging 15-19 3/4", 3 walleyes 14-17", 2 smallies 16-17", 2 pike 24-28", one nice 10 1/2" perch and many gills. The most prductive water was in the 12-15' range using leeches and crawlers. The sucker bite was slow today.