Sunday on my way home to Onalaska I decided that I hadn't had enough fishing yet so I drove down to Lake Onalaska at the end of Airport Road. After only seven casts with Colorado blade spinner fishing it right under the surface I hooked into my biggest Northern Pike ever. Thank God I was using my new medium/heavy rod with Fireline because that monster went right for the weeds and cabbage growing in the little bay there. I struggled for about 10 minutes to bring that monster to shore and my heart was going about 100-miles per hour. Wow! What a fish. I couldn't hang onto him well enough for a picture though so I just let him go.
I went back again today, Memorial Day, but someone else beat me to that same spot so I went down by the Lake Onalaska spillway instead. I fished the spinner again with nothing. Then I down-sized to a tube bait and started fishing slow. After about 15 casts I hooked into a fairly decent 2-pound bass. Nothing extraordinary but catching it was fun. I noticed that his tail fin was all bloody so I assume he was busy scraping the bottom for a spawning bed.
The next time Dad and/or Kurt want to do some fishing how about coming up to the Lake Onalaska area where everything seems to be biting?
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