day 87 7-14-09

7-14-2009
Day 87-268 to go
6:00am-7:15am

Weather: SE5, partly cloudy, 64°, 30.07 falling
Water conditions:, 4.67’, 14kcfs, ?°, Moderate algae bloom (La Crosse)

Fish caught

1. Large Mouth Bass 11.0”, 6:07am, Senko

Area fished

1. Pool 8 Dresbach dam-shore fishing

Fishing Partners

1. None

Comments

I wanted to get my fishing in early, so I fished from shore below the dam. I thought I would have the place to myself, but I was wrong. Two gentlemen were keeping one step ahead of me fishing from a boat. You see I had planned on moving along the rock shoreline looking for active fish. That brings up a question. Why do shore fishermen cast as far out from shore as possible? And why do people fishing from a boat cast as close to shore as they can? I watched these two fishermen pick-off the active fish ahead of me. That is not to say I did not have opportunities myself. For, I did lose two very nice bass to their aerobic leaping and head shakes.
I watched a rather large beaver steadily swimming upstream about 30 feet off shore. The wake it was making reminded me of a barge steadily pushing its cargo upstream towards some grain terminal. I wonder where this lone beaver was headed.