Fishing On My Own

I am very blessed. My family purchased a cottage on Rock Lake in Lake Mills Wisconsin in 1959 (or 1960 depends on who you talk to). I've always been on the water, swimming, king of the raft, boating, skiing, tubing etc. I've been blessed with a great fishing lake my only trouble is I didn't fish. In fact nobody in my family fished since my grandpa who bought the place and he died 6 years before I was born in 1983.

So with my new found gear I decided to take the old row boat out and see what I could find. I have a buddy at work who is a big fishing guy too, he helped me plan out my attack and try to get a few fishes. Rock Lake gets weedy at about 8 to 10 feet and my plan was to be out past the weeds cast over the weeds and reel on through the weedy area attracting the monster fish!

My skills were few my knowledge was little and so were the fish. However all was not lost I discovered the Chatterbait. This is the base of my fishing to this point. I have not since gone fishing and not tossed one. It catches bass, big ones small ones rock bass anything. I'll expand more later but for a beginning angler the Chatterbait is what you should toss day 1. It is really easy to cast and reel in takes very little skill and really catches fish. If I had one lure to choose I would take a dark purple Chatterbait. They come with black plastic, Mike told me to ditch the black plastic on the hook and instead replace it with a purple plastic grub instead.

I can honestly say that if it was not for the Chatterbait on my first fishing trip I might not be fishing today. I've had days where I have not caught anything but for the most part you spend an hour casting the dark purple Chatterbait you are gonna catch a fish.