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Location: Pewaukee, WI | I was wondering some of your thoughts on fishing lakes in heavy bloom...does anyone have a bait or style preference or have you noticed anything that moves fish more than others............
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| Hi esox,
One option that you have, fishing a lake during a heavy bloom is that top water baits will work almost anytime of the day, under any skies above. I have caught "ski's" under blue bird skies in the middle of the afternoon using top water baits on a lake that suffers a heavy bloom each year. One thing to keep in mind though while fishing topwater during the day is to make sure that you are over the most likely structure to induce a top water strike. Good luck to you!
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Location: oswego, il | I have heard about the topwater bite as well. I will say this however, I asked almost every chat guest about bloom fishing and they seem to avoid it or find the clearest water in the system. Nobody seemed to like it. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Thanks guys,
The top water approach seems the most common option.....and clearer water is great if you have that option........!!!
Thanks Again |
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| deep divers the bloom is only in the first few feet of water get below it |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | good idear |
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| I have to say that the best musky fishing I have had was in the greenest water I ever fished and it was consistent over a 2 week period. Fish were shallow and biting and some of the biggest came out of goopy green water.
But I stress this was GREEN algae. |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Instead of moving to a dif lake last week i stuck it out.......tossed topwater had one blow-up----fished below it nada.....
But-------we pounded each spot with Jerk baits and started moving fish...we found the trick was to cast every 5 feet and this really increased what we saw.......moved some good fish and caught 2 subs....just have to be diligent I guess |
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Location: Rice Lake,WI | I agree with everyone who mentioned going up top and I also like large cranks and twitch baits. Gliders are always an option as they snake thru the weeds pretty well. Large spinnerbaits should never be ruled out either.
My hometown lake gets awfully soupy herself with all kinds of floaters...
fun stuff.
Jon "JT" Torok |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | As long as the algae isn't in the decay stage and brown, as FSF said, it is fishable as any structure. Trick is to use it like it IS structure, and find deep breaks that access reeds or weeds and have a algae line at the edge, things like that. I fished Sabaskong for about 10 years every summer during the bloom, and if the fish were on, did very well indeed. One year I fished the reeds in August, in less that two feet of water, using spinnerbaits in a moderate bloom where there were actually lines left after every cast. I boated 16 that week, up to 45". That removed any worry I had about the greenslime. |
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| one lake i fish gets a heavy bloom in late summer. i've done well with big gliders like esoxbr8 said. make repeated casts to an area and the splash from a 6 ounce baits draws and attracts fish from a distance. i also think that the repeated sploosh can actaully turn a inactive fish into a aggresive fish. i've also had more luck with natural colored baits than guady which u think would be the compolete opposite. |
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Fishing the bloom