6-12-11

6-12-2011 Sun
10:00 AM- 3:30 PM

Weather: Variable 5, clear, 70 ˚, 30.13 falling

H2O: clear, 72 ˚

Location: Casey Lake and Mathews Lake

Caught: a few small largemouth bass and a few small pike
Partners: myself and Scott

Comments

The musky trip was over and I wanted to do some exploring on the way. The first lake I picked was Casey Lake. My North woods fishing guide book had described this lake as a good lake for both numbers and size of largemouth bass and pike. Well it held neither on this day. I was not overly impressed with the lake; it did have quite a bit of aquatic growth, but not a lot of varied structure. It was very clear and I noticed a distinct lack of bait fish.
The next lake was fishier looking. It had good weeds, with quite a bit of depth and two submerged humps in the middle. Bait fish were more numerous and the water clarity was excellent. It was supposed to have muskies, bass, pike, bass and walleyes. It looked good, but it only produced a couple of hammer handle pike.

Observations

We were fishing about one hour south of Superior and the season appears to be about two weeks further advanced here versus Superior.