This is the lake on the north side of Lake Audobon that is separated by an embankment. This one's kind of an unknown because I only know one person that has fished it and he's not even a bass fisherman. To be honest, I'm not even positive that's even the name of it. It's definitely a well kept secret but I suck at keeping secrets. Here's the best part... The average fish is right about 3 pounds and there's a bunch of them. I didn't keep track but I think I caught about 10 yesterday and they group up really well on this lake. Might just be because its the fall though.
First off, this is an idle speed only lake and for good reason... It is filled with submerged islands; most of which are less than 2 ft below the surface. My Insight mapping on my HDS showed them very well but I'm not sure about Navionics. Most of the time, my Insight is more accurate than my Navionics. So needless to say, if you go to this lake, be very careful.
Also, this is a very big lake as far as idle speed only lakes go. In 6 and half hours of fishing, I only covered maybe a quarter of the lake.
Water temp: 53 warming to 57 by the evening
Clarity: 4-6 feet
Light winds and cloudless skies with a high of 65.
We had our best luck by fishing three patterns. The first was targeting inside grasslines with tubes and other soft plastics around points. The next was to use the same baits but to target the outside grasslines of the same areas but also hitting grasslines that were close to deep water.
The fish didn't really seem to hold in the grass but rather relate to the edge of it. That may be because the grass was pretty much dead. Not really sure since I'm still learning how to fish lakes with submergent grass.
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Originally Posted by BassinND
