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Location: madison wisconsin | Anyone have any luck on the chain? I did'nt have any. Saw no fish. Talked to other guys that were out and no luck either....... |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Of course you didn't Jamie, you were on Wauby. I was out with Lee B and he got a 31" and I couldn't get the hooks into one with a tiger tube. I heard a number of them caught on Wingra.
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Location: Verona, WI | Waldo and I fished 14 hrs on Wingra (can you believe that?) and saw probably 6 fish and Waldo got a 37 and a 36.5. Went back out there today for 3 hrs and saw one fish. |
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Location: Madison WI | I was at wingra yesterday for 17 hours and today for another 15, I saw at least 15-20 fish, I missed one on a sucker, 4 were caught in my group of friends between today and yesterday biggest was 37. |
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Location: Verona, WI | Jeff,
Were the fish out deeper? Outside of one fish we didn't see anything real shallow as most fish were out in normal summer depths. The weird part is we usually catch bass and see panfish in the shallows and we really didn't see this year. I wonder if the heavy rain from a week or so ago impacted fish location.
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Location: Madison WI | ShaneW - 5/4/2009 10:41 AM
Jeff,
Were the fish out deeper? Outside of one fish we didn't see anything real shallow as most fish were out in normal summer depths. The weird part is we usually catch bass and see panfish in the shallows and we really didn't see this year. I wonder if the heavy rain from a week or so ago impacted fish location.
Shane
I was fishing from shore over by the wingra dam, we saw a lot of fish cruising the shorelines and coming up towards the dam. I was also fishing wingra creek and saw a lot of fish in the back bays but none of them were really all that active. I definetly agree with you on the bass and panfish part though, last year there were bass fricking everywhere this year I have seen one bass and it was about 3-5 inches long. Did you venture over near the dam and see the fence they put up? I think the fish per acreage just went up for Wingra as there were a lot of fish that I don't think had a chance to get back over before the fence was put up. |
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| Hit Wingra for a couple hours yesterday evening...we had a thick 38" put in the boat, and saw 10 others in that time span, should have converted on at least 4 of the 10 but such is life. Lake was kind of busy. |
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| muskyhunter24 - 5/4/2009 10:57 AM
ShaneW - 5/4/2009 10:41 AM
Jeff,
Were the fish out deeper? Outside of one fish we didn't see anything real shallow as most fish were out in normal summer depths. The weird part is we usually catch bass and see panfish in the shallows and we really didn't see this year. I wonder if the heavy rain from a week or so ago impacted fish location.
Shane
I was fishing from shore over by the wingra dam, we saw a lot of fish cruising the shorelines and coming up towards the dam. I was also fishing wingra creek and saw a lot of fish in the back bays but none of them were really all that active. I definetly agree with you on the bass and panfish part though, last year there were bass fricking everywhere this year I have seen one bass and it was about 3-5 inches long. Did you venture over near the dam and see the fence they put up? I think the fish per acreage just went up for Wingra as there were a lot of fish that I don't think had a chance to get back over before the fence was put up.
You should post a pic of this net your talking about!
Anyone know who put this up? And what the purpose is?
If its going to restrict fish from coming back over this is very poor timing!!!
Its no secret that Wingra fish are the skinniest on the chain, and to trap a bunch of non resident fish in there to starve is a bull$.
I'd love details if anyone has them.
Are they trying to keep carp from entering monona? Couldn't wait till the muskie run was over???
Anyone know???
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Hooked a suicidal one on a Blk/org phantom yesterday that got off while grabing the net. Would have been my largest Wingra fish, Maybe 40" but oh well!
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| We got a 37" on monday and 39" today on Wingra |
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Location: Madison WI | Jason Bomber - 5/5/2009 4:21 PM
muskyhunter24 - 5/4/2009 10:57 AM
ShaneW - 5/4/2009 10:41 AM
Jeff,
Were the fish out deeper? Outside of one fish we didn't see anything real shallow as most fish were out in normal summer depths. The weird part is we usually catch bass and see panfish in the shallows and we really didn't see this year. I wonder if the heavy rain from a week or so ago impacted fish location.
Shane
I was fishing from shore over by the wingra dam, we saw a lot of fish cruising the shorelines and coming up towards the dam. I was also fishing wingra creek and saw a lot of fish in the back bays but none of them were really all that active. I definetly agree with you on the bass and panfish part though, last year there were bass fricking everywhere this year I have seen one bass and it was about 3-5 inches long. Did you venture over near the dam and see the fence they put up? I think the fish per acreage just went up for Wingra as there were a lot of fish that I don't think had a chance to get back over before the fence was put up.
You should post a pic of this net your talking about!
Anyone know who put this up? And what the purpose is?
If its going to restrict fish from coming back over this is very poor timing!!!
Its no secret that Wingra fish are the skinniest on the chain, and to trap a bunch of non resident fish in there to starve is a bull$.
I'd love details if anyone has them.
Are they trying to keep carp from entering monona? Couldn't wait till the muskie run was over???
Anyone know???
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Hooked a suicidal one on a Blk/org phantom yesterday that got off while grabing the net. Would have been my largest Wingra fish, Maybe 40" but oh well!
The DNR told us that they put it up and that it was put there to prevent carp from getting into lake wingra like they did last year by the 1000's after the heavy rain, I don't personally have a picture but its basically a chainlink fence across the dam on lakeside that goes all the way to the bottom and sits about 2 1/2 ft above the water. |
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Location: Madison WI | So here are some pictures I took today of the fence that got put up on Wingra. The fish weren't biting so I had some spare time lol.
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | the dam is being removed, the contractors are bidding on friday and it will start "no later then june 20". i saw the plans and it looks cool, how it will effect the muskies i dont know but there is a few big ones that want to go back to monona. we have seen a few jump the fence already. the rest just stare at the fence like WTF,this wasnt here a week ago. atleast 3 45" MONONA fish are traped in wingra, what the hell was the dnr thinking. |
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| Fished Wingra yesterday. It was kinda slow, but I saw a three foot gar. I had no idea they were in there. |
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| Anyone lose a 6" jake or grandma??? Looked to be perch color?
I dont think the fish I saw swimming around with it yesterday is giving it back!!
Looked to be stuck in the top of its face rather than pinning anything shut, but.................
PLEASE CHECK YOUR EQUIPMENT PEOPLE/LINE AND LEADERS!!
FOR THE FISHES SAKE
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| Well I am going to make an attempt to fish Wingra next weekend. Anyone got any tips of the trade. I will be doing a friday evening and a all day sat. Thought about trying 2 different lakes what other lake should I try lookin for numbers. I will be taking my wife on here second muskie expedition. She hasn't put one in the boat yet!! Any tips would be greatly appreciated. |
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Location: c.wis | wingra is the best for number, take her there. otherwise manona, and waubesa are good for big fish... start but the rr tressle work your way into waubesa along the shorelines, a few hundred yards. then work your way back through to the upper mud and fish the weeds near the tresle then fish the dredge line, work your way back through the yahara key in on the bridges( my pb is from the bridge nearest to the bar) then work into squaw bay, try the bay off of john nolin prkwy, and the strech of shore near the hot water discharge, also try trolling past the triangle, good luck wish I still lived in madison |
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| Is that fence still up on Wingra? Anybody have any more info? |
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Location: Madison WI | Mad Musky - 5/19/2009 11:40 AM
Is that fence still up on Wingra? Anybody have any more info?
Yep it is still there, we talked to the DNR about it last time they were down which was sometime last week, they said it might come out it might not. I wanted to let all that are concerned about fish being locked in Wingra that I have personally seen at least 12 fish all over 40 inches with half of them over 45 jump the fence and go back to the creek to Monona. Another note is that the Wingra dam is getting torn down with construction starting no later then June 20th. I am hoping the DNR takes it out before the contstruction starts but we will have to see.
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| The fence isn't that high and I stopped by about a week ago for about 15 minutes and I saw a low 40 incher jump the fence as well. It SURPRISED the heck out of me too, but it had no problem making it over. It was hanging out right next to the fence and then all of a sudden it jumped over!
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Location: Madison WI | They jump it just like they jump the spillway, most of them shimmy up the fence and once they get half there body over the top of the fence they are home free. |
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| Thanks for the helpfull tips eric001. This will be my first outing of the year, boats been down for 2 weeks having the prop worked on. I am biting at the bit to get out my buddy put a 43 in his boat the other night and I havent heard the end of it!!!! Madison is like 1 hour and 15 min. So I would like to learn the lakes there a little. |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Hers a 42 that I got this morning after the rain. Lost another 10 ft from the boat 10 minutes after this one..... Hope the pic works! |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Sorry guys gotta wait til my buddy resizes the pics, I'm gonna have to wait till monday! |
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Location: madison wisconsin | I got the pic resized. Hopefully this time it works!!!!!!
A nice 42"cher
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Hey wers4455 got me out today and I manage to get a 39 incher on a M&G spinnerbait. Whooweee!!!!!!
He got what looked to be a Leecher (spotted) but being about in the mid 20s we didn't mess with it. No left side fin clip, but our chapter put in some a few years ago without them getting them clipped.
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Location: madison wisconsin | Anytime Gerard. Thanks for the laughs and the knowledge!
She sure was a thick one!
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Location: beloit | went out thursday night saw 8 fish in about 1 1/2 and then the sun came out and didn't see another fish but we did manage to catch this 35"
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Location: Madison, WI | Spent the morning on Waubesa, Had a lazy follow on a topraider around the big rock pile within the first 5 casts. Nothing for the next couple of hours, moved south to the small rock pile and a low 30 inch fish chase a bulldawg down and take one boat side swipe and missed, 4 casts later a 37 inch pike smoked the dawg head first (my excitement for the day). Water temps were 64 in the morning and hit about 70 around noon by lake farm. Weeds on the north side are coming in nicely, Greenlatern is starting to get an edge. Great change from last year!! |
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Location: Madison WI | Went out to wingra today, had a low 30's try to eat a bluegill on the creek just before 9 and had a 40" successfully demolish a bluegill on lake side just before noon. The drought has finally ended and I caught a fish on my b-day, all in all it was a great day!
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Location: madison wisconsin | Nice one Jeff! |
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Location: beloit | fished waubesa from 3:00 to 8:00 am today. thick floating weeds every where made it very difficult to fish. we did see 2 fish, I caught a 39" at 4:50, it rolled on my bucktail as I was going into the figure 8 and then it t-boned it on the second time thru, and I had a low 40 follow on the same bait.
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Location: Oregon, WI | Congrats, I was down by you guys when you caught that. I'll second that about the floating weeds. Thought there might be a good top water bite but couldn't get a full retrieve without fouling up. I didn't put any ski's in the boat. Caught a bass, shook off a couple of northerns and had 4 other swing and misses, one being a northern. The others ???
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| Out today from 5-8. Raised one on a Jackpot and another on a suick. Can't seem to get them to eat on Monona this year. |
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| Anyone have a temp for Waubesa yesterday????????????????
Curious if its over 80 yet? Dont want to waste my time putting a boat in just to take it out.
Forcast for the next 10 days is brutal, mid to upper 80s ALL WEEK.
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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | I was out on Sunday. The water temps were pushing 74-77 degrees. The algae bloom was brutal and there was floating crap everywhere. You might want to think about Monona as the temps and maybe algae perhaps are better. Water temps should skyrocket this next week. BG |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Out with muskie! nut on Monona from 5:30-noon. Managed one 33" spotted, pretty fish, on a figure 8. If nut was'nt in the boat I probably never got it. Really helped me out on my figure 8's(I needed it). Both of us had another follow. Water temps were 76-77 this morning
Fishing was'nt bad considering the heat. This morning humidity was brutal. We actually thought it would be a short day.
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Location: Oregon, WI | Was out this morning on Waubesa and Monona. Moved a couple smaller fish. Got 2 northerns, 1 being 32" and lost a monster bass. Water temps were in the musky un-safe zone when I left. Up to 82 degrees on Monona and 85 on Waubesa. |
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| So the water on Monona is over 80 already, Was going to hit it this weekend. Looks like I will have to drive a bit farther north. |
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| the water just went over 80 this isn't true temp. A couple hot days isn't enough to turn the whole lake this temp. Rain is expected in the next couple days, it should bring it back down. Its only about 75 down 4 feet or so. just be carefull and water release if you catch one. |
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Location: Oregon, WI | I would have to imagine that it is quite cooler down a few feet since there wasn't a breath of wind and it was only 75 in the river between Monona and Waubesa. |
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Location: Valparaiso, Indiana | I fished Minona for the fist time yesterday and was able to boat 2 38" fish.. surface water temps ranged from 77 in the morning to 84 in the afternoon. All i can say is it was "HOT" out there. No breeze, flat calm. But i was nice to boat 2 fish. Both fish were caught on a Shad color Kickn Minnow in 30' of water. Algae bloom was pretty thick in some parts of the lake.
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Location: Janesville | I was out today on waubesa . We boated to muskys today a 36.5 and a 45.5 This was the 3rd time the 45.5 was caught this year. It has a scar on the top of it 's back. Second time in my boat in 2 weeks. We lost 5 other fish today also. The muskys were caught on Rubber Dubbers. My be going on thursday night again . |
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Location: mad chain | well said Brad!!!!!! think about the fish. |
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Location: ROckford IL | what are the current temps now, im sure they got to be in the 80s by now, lakes around here are already in the low 80's |
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Location: Madison WI | I will check the temps on Monona tonight when I go out. Surface temps on Wednesday night were about 80-81 but 3 ft down they were about 76-77. Hopefully with the cooler nights they will drop some. I haven't been down to Wingra in the last couple of days but last time I was there temps were above 80. |
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| I was on Monona very early Friday morning 5am-7:30am. We had surface temps varying between 77.6 and 81.1. Warmest in the shallows, cooler over open water...
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Location: Madison WI | Water temps from monona last night was varying between 76-81, surface temp was hovering from 79-81 from 10 pm - 7 am. Hopefully this cold front will drop the temp a little bit. |
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Location: Madison, WI | Thinking about heading out tomorrow and have an open seat. Shoot me a pm if you want to jump in. |
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Location: McFarland | Hit the chain last night and fared pretty well 41 and 45 and lost a pike at the boat that was pushing 40" also.  I got so excited about the one eye thing that I forgot to check the tag number...GGGRRRRRR!!!!!!
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Location: Oregon, WI | Here's a couple from last week. 36 & 46
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Location: McFarland | Fished Waubesa last night from 6:30 to 9:30. Got a sub 30 just before dark and this 44 1/2 at 9:20. First night fish and on a figure 8 to boot, talk about all hell breaking loose. Night fishing is a whole new game but what a blast!!! And oh yeah my new personal best as well.
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Location: Oregon, WI | Got out in the rain from 4 - 6. Stuck 2, 30" and 40"
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Location: McFarland | Nice 40" chop back from Waubesa last night
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Location: madison wisconsin | Interesting "dent" ski patrol. Good fish! |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I was out with guide #wers4455 this morning and got a 37 and lost one at the boat a bit larger. Thanks wers4455!!!!
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Location: madison wisconsin | You are too funny Gerard, it was fun today like always. |
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Location: McFarland | A nice healthy Waubesa 44 incher after dark. Raised one other that was bigger and got a 32-33" pike also.
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Location: McFarland | Another night time figure 8 fish!! Beautiful 47.25 incher and my new personal best and first legal. Too bad the self portrait wasn't better but live and learn. Mental note: next time move the chairs so the camera focuses on the fish. 
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Location: madison wisconsin | This should no longer be mad chain reports and rename it to ski patrol reports! Nice fish ski!! |
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Location: Contrarian Island | we never get skunked on Mad Chain guest. They are always biting hooks off!
ok maybe not. Went out Fri nite for 3 hours. 1st 5 casts I had a 43"ish nip the back hook, headshake and get off.
then nothing til right before lightning chased us off I had something small blow up at my feet. Water temps were 72-74 fri nite. water clarity sucks. floating crap was bad in spots. Saw Ski Patrol right before the storm and they concurred. It was dead. aren't fish suppose to go nuts before a storm? ha. |
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Location: madison wisconsin | Was out friday morning. water temps were 70-72. Fished shallow, edge and a little suspended. Nothing. Was cloudy in morning til bout 9:30 then sun came out. Hope this helps "guest". |
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Location: McFarland | Went out last night 6:00 to 10:00 water temps 74 dropping to 72
Caught this fat 39.5 buddy got a nice 42
Lots of boats out last night was that the musky club?
Evenings getting a little chilly but nice to be out
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Location: Janesville, Wi | Fish are going nuts seeing many fish every time out lately. All lakes are going strong. Happy Thanksgiving!!
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Location: Janesville, Wi | Running out of time. Make sure you hit it hard. A 42 from 11/25. Pic file too big to post check out Lake-link for pic. |
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Location: ROckford IL | Anyone ice fishing lately on the chain, I been thinking about hitting up some of the lakes for musky since the season stays open till the end of the month, how is the ice on the big lakes and on Wingra? |
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