10-12-2003, 05:59 PM
Doug, I P.M.'ed you.
We went in through the public launch because we didn't know any better. Didn't use the bathrooms since we were diving in wetsuits.
We paddled to the west end of the lake and saw lots of nice bluegill and crappie, plus at least one monster bass. We shot some nice fish and I just got done cooking them up for dinner. ;D
Your right about not spearing trout. There are lots of things that you can't spear and a few things that you can. We go after the panfish because there good to eat. Come winter we'll spear a couple of carp because one of the ladies in our Underwater Hockey club smokes them for us.
Bass are every where and seem to know that they're safe since we almost have to push them out of the way to get a good shot at the crappie hiding in the back of the school.
Our dive kayaks worked out perfectly for the lakes up there. It's quick to launch, you can tow them along with you, and they let you get back into to small shallow areas that a normal boat won't. Plus, they're a heck of a lot cheaper to run than a regular boat. 8)
After checking the LAKESAT.ORG site it seems that you have a lot of really nice diving lakes in that area. It's also a good deal closer than Wazee, and has better fish life in it. They are also a nice depth for freediving. With those depths we average 45 seconds on the surface and 1:15 on the bottom. They are all shallow enough that we can keep this up for hours. By the end of the day we get almost 40 minutes of every hour spent underwater- and dinner to boot!
There are a lot of other nice looking lakes up that way. Have you been on Wood Lake or Silver lake? We also thought that Pleasant lake looked good- not the one in Waukeshau county but the one bu Coloma.
Jon
We went in through the public launch because we didn't know any better. Didn't use the bathrooms since we were diving in wetsuits.
We paddled to the west end of the lake and saw lots of nice bluegill and crappie, plus at least one monster bass. We shot some nice fish and I just got done cooking them up for dinner. ;D
Your right about not spearing trout. There are lots of things that you can't spear and a few things that you can. We go after the panfish because there good to eat. Come winter we'll spear a couple of carp because one of the ladies in our Underwater Hockey club smokes them for us.
Bass are every where and seem to know that they're safe since we almost have to push them out of the way to get a good shot at the crappie hiding in the back of the school.
Our dive kayaks worked out perfectly for the lakes up there. It's quick to launch, you can tow them along with you, and they let you get back into to small shallow areas that a normal boat won't. Plus, they're a heck of a lot cheaper to run than a regular boat. 8)
After checking the LAKESAT.ORG site it seems that you have a lot of really nice diving lakes in that area. It's also a good deal closer than Wazee, and has better fish life in it. They are also a nice depth for freediving. With those depths we average 45 seconds on the surface and 1:15 on the bottom. They are all shallow enough that we can keep this up for hours. By the end of the day we get almost 40 minutes of every hour spent underwater- and dinner to boot!
There are a lot of other nice looking lakes up that way. Have you been on Wood Lake or Silver lake? We also thought that Pleasant lake looked good- not the one in Waukeshau county but the one bu Coloma.
Jon