9-11-11 Sun

9-11-2011 Sun
10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
H2O: Bear Lake – clear 73 ˚, Dowling Lake – algae bloom, 75 ˚
Weather: W 12, clear, 81 ˚, 29.92 steady (12:55PM)
Location: Bear Lake & Dowling Lake, Moose Junction, WI
Caught: musky 37”, 4 pike 14-25”, LMB 10”
Partners: Scott

Comments:

Today was September the eleventh, exactly ten years to the date when the US was attacked by terrorists. I still remember it as the day that no planes traveled the sky after the attack. The skies were quite ghostly with no jetliners neither breaking the silence nor leaving any telltale vapor trails in the clear sky.
It was the second day of our weekend trip and we were not in such a hurry to get out on the water. We were both pretty sore from our marathon fishing episode of the previous day.
The game plan was to hit a couple of small lakes that were fairly close to the cabin and that supposedly had a population of muskies. Bear Lake was supposed to have a population of muskies but not enough to make it a serious fishery. Dowling Lake on the other hand was heavily stocked and had a sizeable population. Both lakes had unimproved landings with very limited parking.
Our fishing was very good today, I caught a thirty-seven inch musky and Scott caught a thirty-four incher. We were the only fishermen on both the lakes.

Observations:

Neither lake had much for structure, except for some emergent vegetation around the edges.