Pleasent Lake

[Pherris]

I will be fishing Pleasant Lake near Hackensack this weekend and was wondering if anyone had any reports? <P>Thanks

[Guest]

I am heading up to pleasant lake in a few more weeks. when you get back from your trip could you give a report Pherris? No one else on this forum seems to go there much - or at least they are not giving up any secrets!<P>thanks

[Pherris]

Well I fished Pleasant lake over the weekend. The lake has some really good structure. It was really windy so we trolled most of the time. I used tail dancers in the 10-18' water and picked up a lot of Northern no real size the best was only 22'. Also on the weeds caught a lot of Bass 14-19". I did get one Walleye 24.5" trolling the weed edge with #7 tail dancer at 5:00am. I tried a lindy rig on the flats with nothing more than a few small perch. Did try a little pan fishing and caught a few real nice Bluegills but not enough to bother keeping. All in all caught enough fish to keep it interesting. I do think the lake will get much better as it cools off. Also in the spring the Crappie action is supposed to be real good according to the locals. I will probably give it another try in a few weeks. Good Luck!!! let me know how you do.

[Guest]

well I finally got up to pleasant lake over the last long weekend and I am sad to announce that we - make that anybody did not have a rod bending weekend at all. I think that we tried almost everything in our tackle box for any species we thought could live in there - we had all the electronics, structure maps, variety of bait, local knowledge and plenty of time in the boat both day and night but all we could get were small northerns and some small panfish durning the day. But as they always say "A bad day fishing is still better than a good day at work!!"<P>if anybody has any coulda, shoulda, woulda stories let um out I want to know what else we could have tried