Fishing Gardner Lake June 9 2010

For a while Wednesday morning I was really doing well. I put the kayak in by the dam and paddled to the deep water with only a couple casts on the way. On one of those casts I caught a 6" bass. When I reached the place I wanted I started off with Yamamoto Senkos. Within 40 minutes I caught 5 (13-15") bass and a 18" pickerel and was really feeling good. Then everything stopped and I didn't catch another fish for 2 hours. The next fish was caught in the shallows in the midst of the lily pads. I fished the weeds for another hour without landing another fish. Oh well, that's fishing!

Fishing Gardner Lake May 31 2010

After the good day of fishing on Friday, I decided to go back to Gardner Lake on Monday. In hindsight I should have gone somewhere else. The lake was very busy with fishermen, jet skiers, power boaters and water skiers. I fished about 6 hours and caught 6 fish, 4 bass and 2 pickerel. All of the bass were 13-15" and the pickerel were 16" long. All of the bass and one of the pickerel were caught on Yamamoto Senkos. The other pickerel was caught on a jig with a big grub on it.

Fishing Gardner Lake and Pickerel Lake May 28 2010

I haven't fished Gardner Lake in a couple of years. The old boat launch area is not set up for a kayaker. I'm afraid that if I put my boat in the water that it will be gone when I get back from the parking area. The fishing wasn't too good either. I think the most I caught in a day was 2 fish. One day while touring houses with my office I drove by a remote corner of the lake with a dam. It looked real interesting som I went back a couple week later to look it over. It turns out to be a good place to put a kayak in the water and fish the other part of Gardner Lake. This part of the lake is not as deep as the other half. On the 28th I spent half the day paddling around this half of the lake. I was more interested in learning water depths, weed beds and what color combinnations the fish liked that seriously fishing. I was able to catch 11 pickerel and bass. None of them were very big. Around noon I went home, had lunch and a nap.

At 4pm I decided to take a trip to Pickerel Lake. By this time th wind was blowing pretty good, about 10-15mph. Fishing was slow and by 8pm I had only caught 4 fish. As the sun went down the fishing got better. In the next 45 minutes I caught 7 more pickerel and bass. By time it was very dark and I stopped fishing when I realized that I did not want to take a hook out of a pickerel in the dark! My total for the day was 23 fish. Almost all of them were caught on some combination of a jig or weed less hooked plastic worm/grub.