3-13-2012 Tue
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Weather: S 8, sunny, 66˚, 29.98 falling
Water: 5.56’ rising, 38.8 kcfs, 42 ˚ (at Somners) 50 ˚ at upper end of channel
Location: Lake Onalaska
Caught: Two small perch and four small bluegills
Partners: myself

Comments

It was my first walleye fishing trip out to Somners, and it was a bust. This is not a fantastic spring time walleye spot, but usually a fish or two can be caught. In One particular spot the carp are schooled up and can be readily snagged, but today there were none. After a fruitless hour and no fish and no bites I decided to go back to Black Deer’s Channel and finish the night off.
Black Deer’s was no better; I caught a few bluegills and perch, but it was very poor. We had just fished this area on Sunday and had done pretty well on the two species. One thing about Black Deer’s in the spring when the water is low is the surface gets filled with floating algae slim balls. This makes fishing very difficult and pristine factor is not there!

Observations:

The river has some cloudiness to it and it is rising very slowly. With the lack of snow cover up north the chances of flooding are very remote this spring. All visible snow cover is gone but there was a little bit of ice still in the mouth of Black Deer’s.