Got to spend a couple hours fishing Lake Mendota for smallies Friday evening. Fishing deep rocky ledges. It seemed like I would get these 10minutes flurries of bites on every cast and then nothing. Have you’ve had this happen to you?

Football season is back! These things are grouped up and feeding! You’re surprised the smallie is only 15-16 inches after you just spent 190 minutes fighting it. Every hook set I was calling out Biggin 5lber!

I’m a fan of the new kingpin. Got to try it out for a bit last night, some of my first observations is I like the fall rate compared to the Berkeley General which has been my staple for years. Where im throwing this bait under docks on my lakes I have about 2ft of depth. With the slower fall rate I like that it stays in the strike zone longer. I really like how well you can skip this! Skips like there is a rocket in its butt. Allows me to stay farther away from the docks. Looking forward to keep trying it out.

Man I can’t wait to try these out!

Coming for you Barde in the Northern Division

My niece just out fishing her two older brothers 3 days in a row.

Had a great learning experience fishing a tournment on Lake Winneconne yesterday. Had an experienced co-angler that was a college angler. Certainly learned a few things from him. We burned a chatterbait all day on docks. Lake is almost 16,000 acres with a max depth of 7ft. Water is muddy and reminded me of fishing in Georgia. Rained on us all day but still had fun.

Summer is almost over here, so have to take advantage of every nice day.

Follow up from Mark Jonas and I fishing the team tournament on the Madison Chain. The day for us didn’t go as we hoped, but still had fun and a good learning experience. Had a good number of bites in the AM on a Crankbait, Chatter, and Buzzbait. But once the severe thunderstorm rolled in our bite died. In hindsight after the storm I think we tired to force the shallow (10ft or less) bite too much. Even with finding unblown out water. The field did well fishing deep weed edge 15-20ft and it was cool MLF Pro Steve Lopez was there fishing against us. Takeaway from this is, don’t get stuck in a technique because it worked in practice or for part of the day. Adapt with the fish. Already looking forward to next years team tournament!

Had a club tournment on Sunday on one of the hardest lakes in WI, Lake Wisconsin. Everyone hates this lake on the schedule. Ive also never been happier to land 1 fish in a tournment. It was a 3lber to boot. I’m not sure what makes this lake so tuff other than the fish just don’t bite. Out of 11 boats that showed up that day, only 2 boats had a 3 bag limit. The rest only had 1-2 bass. At the same time I don’t like fishing this lake, I feel determined to break it and crack the code.