| Pole and line fishing only! |
| Largemouth Bass--Limit one per day over 18". Release all others. |
| Black and White Crappie--Limit 15 per day |
| Muskellunge--Catch and release only |
| Channel Catfish--Limit 6 per day |
| Flathead Catfish--Release all (they keep the carp and shad numbers low.) |
| Green Sunfish--Keep or destroy |
| Bluegill--no limit |
| Redear Sunfish--no limit |
| Carp--Keep or destroy |
| Warmouth--Keep or destroy |
| Yellow bass--Keep or destroy |
| Bullhead--Keep or destroy |
| Shad--Keep or destroy |
| Walleye--Measure and report catch to Frank Mavetz (789-6480). One 14"-18" keeper daily. |
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| Video at bottom of page! |
| Video fishing bloopers! (I think they're real.) |
There's a fine line between helping fellow fishermen and letting them catch fish that you should have had. If there are secrets you want to keep, by all means keep them. Information you're willing to share has a place on this site. Let me be the first: I catch a fair number of bass in the 4-5 lb. range on Yamamoto Senko worms. I use the 5" size, rigged on an offset 2/0 hook. These lures actually move backwards when you slack the line. About half the time, fish hit them right after they hit the water.. Senkos come in about 70 colors, and lately Farm King doesn't seem to have them. You can get them online for about $6 for a ten-pack. Other brand names of the same sort of thing are probably good, too. I cast the Senkos as close as possible to shore, around the usual bass cover. The most consistent areas for me have been Lawyers' Cove, near the road, and my own cove (some call it Barking Dog Cove, in honor of Kendall Tucker's retrievers, but I think it must have another name), along the west bank near my own dock. (Now, don't you all come buzzing over here at the same time.) The south shore near the Country Club is good, too, but there's less cover now because of the clearing of the lots. Okay. I shared. Anyone else up for it? |
| These limits apply to all Wee-Ma-Tuk lakes. |
| Look what the Paul Miller crew caught! The bass on the left are 3 (caught by Paul's friend Lucas) and 5 lbs. (Paul.) Both were caught on ultra-light tackle. The middle one (Celia's) measures one cubit, and the cat on the right went 7!. |
| Tom Hills was surprised to learn that there are some good walleyes in the big lake. This one was 18" and about 2 lbs. |
| Yep. It's your web guy with a 61/2 lb. playmate. |
| Darren Strong with 5-lb. channel cat caught at our dock! |
New resident Dennis Simerly caught this 9 lb. 12 oz. cat off his dock! |
| Victoria Strong and her 4-pounder. Her 240-pounder is on the right. |
| Readers' fish pictures below! |
| Well, then. The above has been up for five months or so, and nobody has sent anything. So I'll continue with what appears to be my very own fishing column. --A fellow whose name I didn't catch advised throwing white lures--anything white, he said--to all the rocky shoreline. After 11 AM, he said. --Tom Hills said he'd caught about twenty bass the day before he got his walleye (see below) on a jointed Shadrap. --In spite of a claim I heard or read that the big lake has a 50-ft. maximum depth, I can't find any spot deeper than 22 feet. Am I missing something?--Paul Miller suggests we all kick in a couple of bucks and have a prize for the first verified largemouth 10 lbs. or more. What do you think? --A couple of fishermen said they've caught a six-pounder next to my dock several times on a "chicken jig." I don't know what that is, but I've caught two 6-plussers--or one twice-- once on a twin spinner, and once on a pumpkinseed Senko. (See below.) --How 'bout some email, anglers? CS |
| We Have 2,335 New Residents... ...but we'll have to wait a while to meet them. They're pretty small, and shouldn't be caught for a year or two... LAKE WALLEYE 6-8" MUSKIE 10-12" CHANNEL CAT 6-8" CRAPPIE TOTAL BY LAKE WEE-MA-TUK 400 10 410 MARIE 75 100 100 275 WOOD LAKE 75 100 100 275 SUTTON-SCHROEDER 75 100 100 275 STEVENS 75 100 100 275 TRUAX #1 75 100 100 275 TRAER 75 100 100 275 LONG LAKE 75 100 100 275 TOTAL BY SPECIES 925 10 700 700 2,335 |
| Frank Mavetz's son-in-law, Ron Good, and his son Roary, ready to start stocking Nov.3, 2007. |
| Frank and Roary stocking Lake Marie. |
| L to R Andy and Kent Charlesworth, Roary and Ron Good, stocking the big lake. |
| Roary at Wood Lake. |
