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By: BMGW
Posted: 5/28/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had not fished Leland this year in a driving rain, call me nutz but it sometimes produces a fantastic Crappie bite. Got to the lake about 4pm there was one boat out bassin, campground had about 4 part...
By: BMGW
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed back home from fishing Crescent in the morning I decided to give it a try for Crappie. Looked in a couple areas I had found them in days past, nothing doing and graphing few fish of any kind I...
By: BMGW
Posted: 5/22/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/22/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got a tip from a fellow angler last year about this lake and followed up on it in earnst today, hitting the road at sunup put me on the water by 0830. I did a once around the lake edges and threw D...
By: BMGW
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's just been one thing after another keeping me off the water, and yesterdays weather was just driving me nutz thinking about it, so I closed the business down after noon and headed to Leland to che...
By: BMGW
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well for those of you who have been monitoring the situation with the cormorants wiping out Lake Leland, the good news is they didn't get all the fish. I managed to graph and then catch a couple crap...
By: BMGW
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Campground is not open yet, but signs of activity. Good news is that there were only 4 cormorant to be found on the lake. Bad news is that I only graphed a little more than a couple dozen fish in ab...
By: BMGW
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Very Very bad news! The damn Cormorants have decimated this lake! There are still 60+ of them working the lake over and the fish I am graphing are so few now I think even the trout that were just pl...
By: BMGW
Posted: 2/13/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Looking at the calendar this morning realized, I have a string of gunshows coming up so the weather was giving us an opportunity to plant the half dozen christmas trees we put together for Crappie str...
By: BMGW
Posted: 1/6/2011
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 1/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I have been monitoring the weather reports and all the fishing reports here at WL.COM just itching to put a Walleye on the Ice. I chose Billy Clapp lake as the destination and did my homework mapping...
By: BMGW
Posted: 11/28/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 11/28/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Wscothall and I figured on tag teaming the Crappie and Perch but we could hardly even muster up a bite, I think 3 whimpy bites between the two of us. Graphed nice schools of Crappie but they were aw...
By: BMGW
Posted: 11/24/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Stoked by the last 4 days of very cold temps I was headed out to Leland with my ICE FISHING gear and Vexilar anticipating some hard water fun only to find the lake did not even have any skim ice yet. ...
By: BMGW
Posted: 11/15/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just received a couple new colors in for my jig selection of Dons Dandy Crappie jigs and couldn't wait to try it out. The two colors are pink/white and pink/clear sparkle. Whenever I test out new pr...
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/30/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bite was pretty slow, caught only a half dozen or so but ended up with one nice 11.5" and a bonus Blue Gill both on Dons Dandy Crappie jigs.
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/24/2010
Species: Walleye
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well finally made it to Banks lake in a round about way. Went over to help a friend get his roof on before the snow flies, nice place up on a hillside overlooking the mouth of the Spokane river. Aft...
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/9/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well been doing some more R&D and tested out my new spreader designed for catching Perch and Crappie at the same time... Works! What a nasty day it was, wet, windy and fairly dark, just perfect for a...
By: BMGW
Posted: 10/3/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
What a difference a week makes! Last time out couldn't keep em off the hook, this time it was very slow. It appears to me the Crappie have now left the shallows and are schooling up over bottom stru...
By: BMGW
Posted: 9/26/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/25/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was such a beautiful day and I could hear the fish splashing every time I rang up the till, was driving me crazy so after lunch I just hung the closed sign up grabbed the dog and headed to the lake...
By: BMGW
Posted: 9/5/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/5/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well I was hoping to get a family walleye trip in this weekend but with 2 college students it's darn hard to get the kids to give us enough time so we setteled for our good ole standby close to home t...
By: BMGW
Posted: 9/3/2010
Species: Coho Salmon
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fish we caught allright, but not a single legal keeper. Caught more kings than silvers. There was a decent push of Silvers that come through just before the last rain and wouldn't you know it that pr...
By: BMGW
Posted: 8/23/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Turned my attention from Crappie to the Perch and hammered on the hawgs, again with Don's Dandy Crappie Jigs. Caught a few LMB and Crappie as well but released all of them. Beautiful day on the lake....
By: BMGW
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had a big fish fry over the weekend and now time to replenish the freezer, so figured I would see if my good ole fishing hole could produce for me. Some time ago I remember reading about this ole sou...
By: BMGW
Posted: 7/18/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 7/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Went over to visit my daughter at UW before heading out to Minnesota and pulled the boat for some fun in the sun time. Fished for Crappie on Lake Union in the morning, there was lots of boat and airp...
By: BMGW
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/10/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Took a young family fishing and played guide today. Started out not too early because of the little guys managed a few Crappie at first and returned all of them then decided to set everyone up with j...
By: BMGW
Posted: 7/5/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/4/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Boat just got out of the yard and I needed to road check my truck after dropping a new carburetor and manifold on it, so loaded up the dog and gear and decided to get away from all the crazies on the ...
By: BMGW
Posted: 6/17/2010
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/17/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well both my boats are in drydock, but my canoe is ever ready and my own personal pond that I stocked with fish many a years ago is always open to me. It's a beautiful 1.25 acre pond that holds some ...