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Searching Mendota this am, surface temp down to 55°F, at 40' it was 57°F. Didn't get any deeper then that today, but according to the UW site at 45' it's 52°F and 49°F @ 60'. Water clarity not good...

Searching Mendota again today. Water clarity still poor, but a lot better then Waubesa or Kegonsa. Water temp down to 45' was 64°F, drop down another 3' and it's 52°F. I was looking at a piece of...

No problem, it's acting just like it's supposed to. When you turn the motor off the tach won't go to zero. Per my memory it acts like a needle "dampner". If you're driving home the needle may move up...

Lower the pitch of your prop to get more power on take off. If you're currently using a 19 pitch try a 17 or 15. In theory you'll be able to get up on plane better but will lose some high end speed....

After my seminar at the 2012 Madison Fishing Expo I sold data that included all the (at that time) current coordinates for cribs, rock areas, structure, etc. for all four of our lakes here (the data...

I'm still here, been very busy with family (two new grandchildren), day to day stuff and trying to work on my projects. I've got a bunch of videos (typical low resolution unfortuneatly) to go...

We were on Monona early this am, taking more photos of boats and other structure I've found. Surface temp was at 62°F. Algae bloom, thick algae in the upper water column, floating crap all over the...

Buddy and I dove off the Center Bar Saturday morning. Algae getting very thick in the shallows, not as bad at depth. Surface temp was 58°F, temps ran from 59°F down to 22', dropped to 57°F down to...

Was out searching for more "treasures" for a while just before dark on Saturday. Checked some old metal pieces of structure for any smallmouth (yes, one smallie on each of the pieces I checked before...

Dove Kegonsa this morning. Water clarity at depth has turned much worse then the last time I was out there. Saw three little smallies, could see no more then a foot or two. Did find a few anchors,...

Salmonone and I dove on the 2nd Point bar where the old weather station and tripod sections are last Saturday. Water clarity is very deceiving, what you can see looking down is nowhere near what you...

Just an update...I went to the lake level meeting last week. There was representation from a lot of different groups (county, DNR, UW, private organizations/clubs, etc.), some want higher lake...

State law says Mendota should be @ 849.6' ASAP after March 1st to allow northern spawning. Between April 1st & May 15th at least one of the taintor gates @ Tenney Locks must be open 3.4" for Walleye...

We dove off Maple Bluff this morning (Warner Bay side, where shoreline cuts into a little "bay"). Clarity pretty bad, as is usually the case after ice out. Bottom temp ranged from 44°F to 46°F, max...

Just an FYI, I'll be giving two seminars at the Madison Fishing Expo this weekend: Saturday @ 5:00pm & Sunday @ 10:30am. I'll be strictly discussing our four lakes: highlighting unknown (or little...

They went to another club/meeting a short while back also (think Kevin O'Connor was one of the people) and addressed the same concerns. Right now Mendota's level is at 848.57', minimum winter level...

Probably one of the most common questions I'm asked refers to Monona Terrace. I've posted a short video on youtube that includes a view of some of the rock structure right off shore before it drops...

A lot of the lake is open, as is Gov. Nelson. Problem is the lake is so low there's no way to launch a boat you couldn't handle by hand (being able to lift it). Warner launch is iced over, I didn't...

On Mendota fighting the wind yesterday. Wind ended up beating me in the end, but I put up a good fight for a while! Surface temp was between 33°F & 35°F, at 60' it was 38°F. Was out identifying...

I processed the video from this afternoon. Clarity is obviously terrible, but if you look closely you can see quite a few gills hanging around the first boat. Some actually look to be of decent size....

On Monona this afternoon, hoping the clarity improved down in 50 FOW so I could get some decent video of the last couple boats I'd found. Still really bad but could make out one of the boats and...

Went to Olbrich this afternoon, main landing iced in a little ways out, enough I didn't want to break through the ice. Last year after I busted through the ice I broke my transducer bracket, year...

Here's a snapshot of the injury to the one musky I saw yesterday. There's an issue between my digital camcorder and my new Marcum camera. video doesn't always sinc up just right, so excuse the lack...

Don't think I'll be digging down through all that muck to find out, it'll have to stay a mystery! :)

On Monona this afternoon, hoping the water had cleared up enough to be able to identify some of the objects I've found with the side scan, no such luck. Lots of algae particles, looked like a...