08-08-2018, 07:13 PM
[#0000FF]As I mentioned, my past experience at the bubbleup has shown that there are usually more fish present when water levels are higher and there is some water coming into the lake through the pipe. I almost did not even begin working along the pipe as I normally do...casting tandem jigs across the pipe, reeling them slowly up over the pipe and then letting them drop on the near side. That will usually catch something if they are there. Imagine my surprise when a cast well beyond the pipe was instantly attacked almost as soon as the jigs hit the water.
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[#0000FF]There was an area about 50' x 50' that seemed to hold a thick school of the white bass...and on both sides of the pipe. If I didn't get hit on one side I would get hit on the other. And a few times I got hits right on top of the pipe...where the water was only a foot or so deep.
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[#0000FF]My guess is the pipe served as fish-attracting structure in a lake that has very little structure outside of the (now shallow) harbors.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I have fished the bubbleup many times over the years and it is different on every trip. I have caught just about every species in the lake along that old Geneva Steel pollution delivery system. Big old channel cats like to snuggle up under the pipe during the spawn...and I have caught some gorillas on the small jigs I throw for whities. I have also caught a lot of walleyes around the bubbleup. Sometimes near the pipe but often by working larger plastics or cranks a few feet away. They also slurp up the minnows I drag around while casting lures.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]There are some humps and bumps off Lincoln, the island and the Knolls that often see schools of white bass hanging around during late summer into fall. But it is always subject to depth, temperatures, water clarity and current weather patterns...and luck.
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[#0000FF]There was an area about 50' x 50' that seemed to hold a thick school of the white bass...and on both sides of the pipe. If I didn't get hit on one side I would get hit on the other. And a few times I got hits right on top of the pipe...where the water was only a foot or so deep.
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[#0000FF]My guess is the pipe served as fish-attracting structure in a lake that has very little structure outside of the (now shallow) harbors.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]I have fished the bubbleup many times over the years and it is different on every trip. I have caught just about every species in the lake along that old Geneva Steel pollution delivery system. Big old channel cats like to snuggle up under the pipe during the spawn...and I have caught some gorillas on the small jigs I throw for whities. I have also caught a lot of walleyes around the bubbleup. Sometimes near the pipe but often by working larger plastics or cranks a few feet away. They also slurp up the minnows I drag around while casting lures.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]There are some humps and bumps off Lincoln, the island and the Knolls that often see schools of white bass hanging around during late summer into fall. But it is always subject to depth, temperatures, water clarity and current weather patterns...and luck.
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