6-18-2011

6-18-2011 Sat
4:00 PM- 8:30 PM

Weather: NE 15, overcast, 72 ˚

H2O: clear, 72 ˚, 36.4’ falling, .812 kcfs

Location: Black River, Black River Falls, WI

Caught: Nothing

Partners: Myself

Comments

I put in at the airport landing and headed upstream as far as I could towards the dam. The water level was probably one foot lower than when I was here last time, this prevented me from making it up to the dam. The water was very clear and it definitely would have made it easy to spot any fish that was following my bait. Unfortunately I did not have any follows. I did have one lack luster hit by a twenty some inch fish, but I never got a hook into it. The fish revealed itself to a Cisco Kid top water bait.

Observations

The fishing was very slow, I only saw one little smallmouth bass chasing my lure. My theory is the muskies are up close to the dam early in the season chasing spawning bass and walleye and then when these fish are done spawning, they along with the muskies head downstream to better habitat. With the water level somewhat low right now the area between the airport landing and the dam does not have much for good looking fish holding water. Most of it is quite shallow and very rocky with very few deep holes!