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French Lake Fishing Reports

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Im hopefully gonna get out there today, i will let you know how things turn out. In general weekends serve up a lot of pressure on the lake, but if u can get out during the week its not to bad but seldom will u be the only boat out there throwin for skis.

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bisekb Contributor

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The report was not so good, 8 hours and didnt move a single fish. LOTS of other fisherman out there mainly fishin for ski's. It was tough, but all in all still a good day on the water. Maybe next time

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Matt C Grand Master

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I havnt been in the area for a while, but as stated, you have better luck, and not have to play bumper boats if you go during the weekdays.

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Those (muskies) have got to be some very educated fish for all the toys they see on a weekly basis. Anyone ever see much for walleye or crappie action this year? Haven't made it there yet but when I do it is ALWAYS on a week day as with many lakes. L2f

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Roadhunter Explorer

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I have not been on French Lake this year. Just wondering about putting in a glass 18 1/2 foot boat from the public access. Did it last year but it was a task.

Anybody put in lately? Super shallow once again?

Also has the lake really "greened up" to pea soup yet? How bad is the algae?

Looking at a trip later in the week. Thanks in advance for any info.

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Matt C Grand Master

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I can get my 20 foot deep v alum. in. The water is up about 6 inches from last year. Its not too bad on the green yet, but that was last weekend. I am heading out there tonight in my boat to watch the fireworks, I'll repost on the water color.

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Matt C Grand Master

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Water is not that bad at all. Weeds seem to have died off except the milfoil, which isn't all that bad.

Trolled for about an hour as we were out there for fireworks...

Marked tons! No bites. Too much boat traffic.

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Thanks for the French Lake status info. Hope all those marked fish bite for you one day !! We may try it the end of the week.

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Water is not that bad at all. Weeds seem to have died off except the milfoil, which isn't all that bad.

Trolled for about an hour as we were out there for fireworks...

Marked tons! No bites. Too much boat traffic.

This is the pic Matt sent me on French the other night

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Matt C Grand Master

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Good thing them way-point's on my gps side don't show co-ords! :P

Pretty much same thing on Mazaska tonight, marked a ton in the same depth, and not much to show for it.

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Water is not that bad at all. Weeds seem to have died off except the milfoil, which isn't all that bad.

Trolled for about an hour as we were out there for fireworks...

Marked tons! No bites. Too much boat traffic.

Maybe we were fishing a different French Lake than you yesterday, but the water was the worst I've ever seen it. Visibility was less than a foot. I was tossing Cowgirls with silver blades and couldn't even see them when the leader hit my rod tip with only the last 3 eyelets in the water.

The midlake humps were covered in a green slime with spots of neon blue sludge.

At least it kept most of the skiers and jetskiers off the water, though.

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Really? It didn't seem as bad as it normally is to me at least smirk

I knew it was bad when I saw a boat a few hundred yards away get up to go and shot out a solid green roostertail. I had to powerwash my rods and reels when I got back because they were covered in a nasty green sludge.

All of this was just off the public landing and off the two humps in the middle. Maybe it was nicer on the side of the lake by Hoy's.

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Something musta popped from Sunday to yesterday. Normally I have to power wash the boat right after being in there and or shields to get the slime off. (I have a white boat). Shes pretty clean though!

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did pretty well, some nice crappies for sure, wind really picked up when we packed up around 1230, consistent bite all day though

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dlroot Rookie

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What part of the lake were you fishing? I am going to head over there on Sunday to check it out. I was down to West Newton On Friday and brought home some nice Blue Gills.

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Hit up the circus on French today. Caught some nice crappies in the A.M. but once all the people moved in the bite stopped. Moved away from the crowd in 20 FOW and dusted a few big toads. All in all a good day.

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The wife and I went out there on Friday and caught a lot of nice nice crappies. Went back with high hopes for Sat and caught about 10 but nothing to write home about. Bite was really slow. A lot of people like you said. I think it may have been the storm that blow in on Friday because it was one after the other. Tried duck on Sunday then and nothing but the lake looked like there was an ice fishing contest going on. So many people.

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Matt C Grand Master

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does hoys resort have bait ? thanks

No. Depending where your coming from, there are 2 places in town, or 1 in Shieldsville on hwy 21.

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can you still drive out from hoys or do u have to use the dnr access ? thanks

You can use Hoys or the DNR. The west end has an access as well to drive out from.

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