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    11/7/20 fishing report.

    Got on the water about 6:45am this morning it was a Beautiful morning before the wind kicked in at about 10am. I was on a small electric only lake. First thing to say is the dnr has taken the docks out at a lot of lakes now and that makes it a little bit of a pain but oh well. Water temp 49/50* this lake has clean water most all the time and there was 3ft visible. Started by the ramp and moved to a fishing getty not far, saw lots of bait schools on the graft, I figured blue gills or crappies. I started using a rattle trap and snagged a crappie so that’s probably the Bait. I stayed there for a bit tried jerkbait, blade bait, small swim bait, rk crawler with no bites. Moving to the dam and ran the rk crawler ( I’ve caught some nice walleyes doing this at this lake before was hoping for dinner) I got half way down the dam and got a good bite ended up with a 4.06lb bass. I was happy!! Moved to some brush in the back of a pocket probably 3ft of water noticed the water temp dropped slightly. No bites, moved to a road bed in 9ft water I was gragging a 3/4oz hobbly head with a biffle bug. No bites. Moved to a step drop off along the bank through the jerkbait, (110 & 110 plus) no bites now the wind was really starting to blow.... I tried few other spots and baits but no luck. Decided to call it a morning at 11:15am so I could get home and watch football/eat dinner. I still had a great time being out in November in a sweat shirt. So I may get out more next week my wife works at a school and she got the call that there quarantining here class because of a positive case :-( she feels good but like me has a cold,at least we hope that’s all we have Lol. Anybody else get out this weekend yet?
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    I was going to go out at first light this morning but when my alarm went off, I decided that catching more Z’s seemed better than catching bass.

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    Hit up Blackhawk for a few hours yesterday morning. Water temp was 49-50, SUPER WINDY limiting me primarily to Town Cove and the bridge. Caught 4 bass with 3 of them being around the 3lb mark. Jig and chatterbait on rock with deeper water nearby. Lots of crappie being caught off the rocks in town cove by bank fishermen

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    Thanks for posting a report liljakec. I wondered if I should still try a chatter bait these last few times out but I didn’t. The wind has been terrible the last few weekends I would rather fish in the rain LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redog View Post
    Thanks for posting a report liljakec. I wondered if I should still try a chatter bait these last few times out but I didn’t. The wind has been terrible the last few weekends I would rather fish in the rain LOL.
    I caught 9 last Wednesday and every single one of them was on a white chatterbait.

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    Went out to Prairie Queen last Wednesday and got blanked. Never got a bump. Tried jerk baits, see sawed a trap, ned rig. I could see em in 10-24 FOW but ..Nada

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astro-T View Post
    Went out to Prairie Queen last Wednesday and got blanked. Never got a bump. Tried jerk baits, see sawed a trap, ned rig. I could see em in 10-24 FOW but ..Nada
    Thanks for reporting. It is getting hard to get a bite. I guess it’s that time of year. So is anybody going out this weekend? Weather doesn’t look to cold, supposed to be overcast and ssw wind 10/15mph. I wonder if a spinner bait really slow might get a bite? I’m thinking I’ll give it a try, than find some rocks and drag a jig too.

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    I won’t go out to long if I don’t get and action. I really enjoyed last weekend on the couch watching football Saturday!! Man there was some good games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redog View Post
    Thanks for reporting. It is getting hard to get a bite. I guess it’s that time of year. So is anybody going out this weekend? Weather doesn’t look to cold, supposed to be overcast and ssw wind 10/15mph. I wonder if a spinner bait really slow might get a bite? I’m thinking I’ll give it a try, than find some rocks and drag a jig too.
    With the current conditions a jerkbait, jig, and ned rig are damn near all you need. If you get a warm day and water temps are above 45 slow roll a chatterbait or dt6 around rock.

    I'll be out duck/goose hunting this weekend. Lots of new birds came down with the front yesterday

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    Our rifle season starts Saturday. So I won’t be in the deer woods for a few weeks. I think I might try some fishing this weekend instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liljakec View Post

    I'll be out duck/goose hunting this weekend. Lots of new birds came down with the front yesterday
    We need to get together and go blast some birds. Then again, I need to get a gun too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STEVE81 View Post
    We need to get together and go blast some birds. Then again, I need to get a gun too.
    I'm down for that Steve! Haven't hunted back around CB since I moved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liljakec View Post
    I'm down for that Steve! Haven't hunted back around CB since I moved.
    When you find some time, give me a call. Maybe we can set something up.