The Spoonpluggers Forum

May/June 1998
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Buck Sez... "For spring Bass, be sure to check these areas".

This lake is home to the most bass over 20lbs! 4 out of 9 of the largest bass where caught from this lake. More Big bass out of this lake than any other. This lake is deep. This area looks like the best section of the lake. This is "fishing water". Any structure fisherman (spoonpluggers) o...

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Don & Tom in action!

I received the national Spoonpluggers directory today. Some interesting facts:

257 members in the United Sates.
166 (65%) are from the Midwest
19 (7%) from the Northeast
49 (19%) from the south
23 (9%) from the west

Nearly half, 119 (46%) are from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan!

This is Atwood lake... !!
John.... Comments? Have you ever seen the HD map before?

Attached maps of the (3) structure situations near the dam. Map #1 is to the right side, Map 2 is the the left side and map 3 is by the dam. All (3) areas produced muskies, and area 3 was the only one that produced bass. i could never figure out area 2. The long bar looks like a classic and you woul...

An oldie but a goodie....
Enjoy....

Otter Lake
central Illinois
765 acres
water color: mostly medium yellow/green

I will post my maps of this lake at the end of the week.
I map like this does not have a lot of detail.
Where is your "fishing" water at?

Here's one that talks about casting early season.

Yes, don't pass up the 17' hole on the west side. The 34' hole is obvious, but it breaks way to shallow on the north side and south side. I would work the west side bar. And there is a bottom breakline, looks like around 22' on the east side of the 34' hole. Most of the breaklines are shallow, perha...

This is a natural lake in the midwest. A certain spoonplugger is very familiar with this lake. Maybe he can jump in at the END to answer and confirm the questions and interpretations. What is your first reaction when looking at the map? Where would you troll? Where would you anchor? Best area for pr...

Here's another one for the week....

A friend of mine sent this to me... Very funny!
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