4-23-2010 Thr
6:00PM-7:30PM

Weather: S14, cloudy / light rain, 56°, 29.79 steady

H2O: 640.93 steady, 40.9 kcfs, 60°, semi-clear

Caught

LMB (6) 15, 17, 15, 18, 14, 16 - spinner bait

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7 - Lake Onalaska - protected areas

partners:

Jake V.

Comments

Tonight Jake was fishing with me. Jake does not have a lot of fishing experience, but he did catch a couple of nice bass. Since the weather was so nasty out on the main lake we stayed in the areas that were sheltered from the wind.
Fishing was pretty good, and the fish were staying extremely shallow again. I had heard rumors that the bass had spawned or were in the process of spawning, but I believe that is false. We did keep a couple of smaller fish for supper and they still had spawn in them.
Contrary to popular belief, if cooked on the grill bass are one of the best eating fish around. Cook bass or any other white flaky fish on the grill in this manner and I think you will agree.
1. Make an open pan out of foil.
2. Melt an ample amount of butter and cover the bottom of you pan with it.
3. Put your fillets in the pan and turn to coat both sides.
4. Sprinkle the top side of the fillets with seasoned salt and dill weed if you have it.
5. Put pan and fish on the grill and put cover on grill, cook till almost done.
6. Poke holes in foil to allow butter to drip onto coals and produce smoke.
7. Cover grill (to prevent a fire) **note: this only works with charcoal, if you were to do this on a gas grill you would have an inferno
8. Cook / butter smoke fish several more minutes until fish flakes easily
9. Enjoy!

I am not an advocate of harvesting large amounts of fish of any species, but if a person enjoys eating fish, harvest in a responsible manner. What I mean by this is selective harvest; keep a limited amount of fish and return the larger fish of all species so someone else can enjoy catching them.