Best WISCONSIN white bass waters?

  • tedpeck
    Genoa Wi
    Posts: 267
    March 5, 2006 at 3:28 pm #1249129

    Researching an article on top WISCONSIN white bass waters in August. Wolf/Winnebago, Koshkonong/Rock, Mendota and the mighty Miss are already on my list. Anybody out there in IDA land have any other ideas? thanks!

    cade-laufenberg
    Winona,MN/La Crosse, WI
    Posts: 3667
    March 5, 2006 at 3:46 pm #426832

    If you didn’t say the miss, i was going to. Man you can really get out there and whack ’em at the right time of year!
    pool 8 white bass

    dhnitro
    Markesan, WI
    Posts: 289
    March 5, 2006 at 4:06 pm #426833

    For some big white bass, try Big Green Lake. Not uncommon to catch them around 18 to 20 inches..Winter time is also a good time. They will biting year long..

    steveo
    W Central Sconnie
    Posts: 4102
    March 5, 2006 at 4:06 pm #426834

    Ted,
    I enjoy your articles. My home water the St Croix River offers great whitie fishing. I’ve caught them up to 17″ out there in the dog days.

    krisko
    Durand, WI
    Posts: 1364
    March 5, 2006 at 4:20 pm #426835

    I’d have to add to the list the at least the lower Chippewa River from Eau Claire down to the Mississippi. In the past few years I have had good numbers of these fish along with some nice sized ones down by Durand.

    jimt
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 172
    March 5, 2006 at 4:59 pm #426839

    Castlerock has a pretty good spring run with fish averaging around 2 pounds. The Buckhorn bridge and railroad trestle on the north end of the lake are excellent areas to try. Throwing plastics always seems to outproduce live bait for the bigger fish.

    tedpeck
    Genoa Wi
    Posts: 267
    March 5, 2006 at 7:42 pm #426871

    Thanks, guys! You’ve given me plenty of stuff to git-r-done! Will be PMing all of you.

    bassandbucks
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 179
    March 8, 2006 at 9:57 pm #427935

    Ted,
    My vote is in for the Petenwell/Castlerock flowages. In the spring especially, the whities are thick. It makes it nice to take my younger neices and nephews out while I am walleye fishing they are almost guaranteed fish.

    Whiskerkev
    Madison
    Posts: 3835
    March 9, 2006 at 9:04 pm #428383

    I have been to a lot of places but Mendota blows them all away and they are huge.

    tritondoug
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 30
    March 9, 2006 at 9:56 pm #428402

    I agree with SteveO. I live in Hudson, WI and the St Croix between Prescott and Hudson is just an all around excellent fishery. You can really get on a bunch of them and good size too!

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