6-10-11

6-10-2011 Fri
2:00 PM- 7:30 PM

Weather: N 10, overcast, 54˚, 30.03 falling

H2O: clear

Location: Spooner lake (2 PM – 430 PM), Shell Lake (5:30 PM – 7:30PM)

Caught: Approximately twelve LMB (with six being of legal size), one Small Mouth bass and several small pike.
Partners: Scott

Comments

Scott and I headed up north to the cabin to do some musky fishing this weekend. I had told Scott we would stop at a couple of lakes to on the way to catch supper, my plan was to catch a couple of bass for supper.
The weather was not ideal: it was overcast and cold. The prior couple of days we had some very warm temperatures with the hottest day reaching one hundred! Our first stop was Spooner Lake, with the main goal of catching a couple decent size largemouth bass which were to become the main entrée for our supper.
Spooner did live up to its reputation of being a premier bass lake. In a very short order we had two bass swimming in the live well. We fished Spooner for a couple of hours, before packing the bags and doing exploratory fishing on a new body of water,
The second lake on the list was Shell Lake. It was not a far road trip to Shell, but finding a landing was rather difficult. The only landing that did exist was the one right in the middle of town. My old map had showed about a half dozen landings on the lake, but we found out the hard way that all the small landings had been shuttered.
The only landing available was the city landing. We were charged five bucks and had our equipment inspected by the attendant in order to use the facilities. This lake is a large very clear body with very little structure. The fishing pressure was quite light, but I think we could attribute that to the nasty weather.
The only fish caught were several small pike and one fourteen inch smallmouth bass.

Observations
The azaleas are in full bloom and the mosquitoes are terrible.