Well, the inevitable is upon us. Parts of the Madison Chain are already loaded with slimy, disgusting slop surface weeds. Before you pack all your gear and head elsewhere, there is a silver lining: the weeds under the water are also booming and loaded with fish. For those of you chasing panfish, crappies are still holding to shallow water structure in 3-5 feet. Channels and bays with wood, boat lifts, or docks will produce fish. Crappies can also be seen in 5-10 feet of wat

Have you finally detoxed from Madison Craft Beer Week?! Good, me too! And luckily, even though craft beer week is over, there is still a ton of events in and around town getting us pumped for summer! New beer releases, outdoor fests, the whole shebang. Continue to check out which events I'll be at (and maybe the guys!) on our events calendar. Here's a few highlights coming up quickly: May 19th marks Ale Asylum's 10 year anniversary and they are having a party! All day happy h

Here we find ourselves a week into the 2016 Wisconsin game fish season. Currently the weather is making patterning fish somewhat difficult, however fish are certainly biting. Panfish, particularly bluegills and crappies are moving in large numbers to shallow bays and channels. Crappie minnows, small fathead minnows, and Berkley Gulp 1" minnows have been hot rigged under a slip bobber. With water temps beginning to get into the mid to high 50's bass are beginning to bed up on

Currently: We went out Saturday morning to the HWY 113 bridge to try again for some spring time catfish. We showed up for a few hours and were only able to entice a decent sized white bass into eating a night crawler on a catfish rod and rig. The weather was gloomy, and definitely did not help the quality of the bite. Panfish continue to be seen in the channels and shallow bays, with Largemouth bass starting to really populate these warm water structure areas. The channels