09-04-2006, 01:08 PM
Silver Lake is just down the road from me, off of Silver Lake Rd and Cty Rd E. There used to be a Salvation Army camp on one side of the lake. This has since been shut down and the Three Rivers Park District bought it and is renovating it. The hiking trails and certain parts of the former camp are useable at this time with more to come.
Most of the lake is around 5 feet deep. The deepest part is accessible only by boat and I don't trust myself to even try to launch a boat from their ramp. There are two islands on this lake, one of which is accessible via bridge from the park. This is where the majority of people fish from. And this is where I went fishing from a couple days ago. I took a bunch of tackle with me. But what the fish seemed to want were either natural colors or copper.
My first cast, nothing. I was using a dark red thumpin' grub. Second and third casts nothing. Hmmm, I think I'll switch rods so I can get a little more distance in the casts. On my other rod I have a shallow diving perch colored minnow shaped lure. I stop the lure short of getting caught in a tree. It drops into the water. I look to my right to see what the girlfriend's kid is doing then I start reeling.
At first it felt like I snagged a branch (get lots of those in this area of the lake). But as I reeled in, this branch started fighting back. I yelled for a net since I could tell the fish was hardly hooked. It jumped a few times. I thought for sure this LMB was going to throw the lure back at me.
When I finally got it out of the water, it measured approximately 15 inches. I caught only 9 other fish over the next 2 hrs. One white crappie, 3 basslings, and the rest were sunnies, nothing worth keeping.
Now if I can just find somebody to take me to the deep hole in the lake.... I hear there's good size walleye in there.
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Most of the lake is around 5 feet deep. The deepest part is accessible only by boat and I don't trust myself to even try to launch a boat from their ramp. There are two islands on this lake, one of which is accessible via bridge from the park. This is where the majority of people fish from. And this is where I went fishing from a couple days ago. I took a bunch of tackle with me. But what the fish seemed to want were either natural colors or copper.
My first cast, nothing. I was using a dark red thumpin' grub. Second and third casts nothing. Hmmm, I think I'll switch rods so I can get a little more distance in the casts. On my other rod I have a shallow diving perch colored minnow shaped lure. I stop the lure short of getting caught in a tree. It drops into the water. I look to my right to see what the girlfriend's kid is doing then I start reeling.
At first it felt like I snagged a branch (get lots of those in this area of the lake). But as I reeled in, this branch started fighting back. I yelled for a net since I could tell the fish was hardly hooked. It jumped a few times. I thought for sure this LMB was going to throw the lure back at me.
When I finally got it out of the water, it measured approximately 15 inches. I caught only 9 other fish over the next 2 hrs. One white crappie, 3 basslings, and the rest were sunnies, nothing worth keeping.
Now if I can just find somebody to take me to the deep hole in the lake.... I hear there's good size walleye in there.
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