Shawano Lake

Went fishing last night. Went to Berry Lake in Oconto County. The water was so low from shore we couldn't launch the boat. We tried several times with no luck. Thought we were gonna get the truck stuck. It was like quick sand. My shoes ended up covered in the crap. Couldn't get the trailer in the water far enough to get the boat far enough into the water to push off. Truck was darn near water up to the bumper so I was kind of ticked we couldn't launch. So we left there and went up the road to Shawano Lake.

It is pretty shallow to launch there but we were able to at least get the boat off the trailer. We finally got on the water at about 5pm. Fishing was so slow. I had one good hit that banged my lure but no hook up. It wasn't until about 8 or 8:30 that we started having any action. Off to the right of the main lake was like some grassy areas about 1-3 ft deep and we were fishing up the little channel like areas and Pat caught a small snake. So we worked that area and he ended up catching 2 more snakes.

We moved to another patch of grass and I was using a spinnerbait with my Natural cream round rubber and golden yellow fishscale skirt and I casted right into the grass let it drop and reeled about two times around and BAM!!! baby! I got it to the boat and the sucker started fighting me and went around the motor then went under the boat and I thought, oh no, I am gonna loose it! But I just picked up my rod and pulled it up real high and it came up out of the water.

I was able to boat it and took pics and weighed it. It was almost 3 lbs. My heaviest bass to date. Forgot to measure it though. I was pretty excited the rest of the time which wasn't too much longer. It got dark and started to rain so we came off the lake and I was happy to have caught the only bass this time, lol!

August 02, 2009