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DEVILS AND FISH LAKE INFO
These two widely separated lakes flank Lake Wisconsin near the Sauk/Dane County line. They offer very different fisheries. Devils Lake contains both warm and coldwater fisheries. It’s stocked with Brown Trout every year by the DNR and affords some pretty good angling for this species, says Doug Williams, owner of DW Men’s Wear Sports Center, 125 West Cook St., Portage, (608) 742-7745. Browns are chiefly taken on small minnows or spinners off the steeply dropping east and west shores. Walleyes, too, are stocked and generally run 20 inches or so, says Williams. You’ll also find a few decent Northern Pike, excellent panfish, and good numbers of both Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass. Williams suggests fishing the shallows on the north end for Largemouth, the weedline for Northerns, and the drop for Smallies and Crappies. You’ll also find Smallies along the railroad tracks on the east side; fish at the 22-foot level with small crankbaits, crayfish or chubs. You can also try the rocks on the west side. There’s a fair amount of ice fishing pressure here, chiefly for Walleyes, Northerns, and panfish. Fish Lake, meanwhile, offers primarily a warmwater fishery for Largemouth, ‘gills, Crappies, and a few Northerns. Steve Mock of Zick’s Bait Station, 450 Water St., Prairie du Sac (608) 643-6240, says you’ll find good numbers of Largemouth here, with size being decent at 2 to 3 pounds. They can be a little hard to fish in the summer because of weed growth, but toss live or plastic worms, leeches, or buzzbaits to the pockets. In addition to the bigmouths, you’ll find smallish Northerns here, along with eating-size Crappies and small ‘gills. Smallish Mud Lake on Fish’s west side offers a similar fishery. Mock says Fish is a good place to take the kids in winter because they WILL catch ‘gills through the ice. Mud Lake, though, is too shallow to retain much dissolved oxygen during the winter; hence, it’s not much for ice fishing. Fish/Mud are no-motor lakes, as is Devil’s.
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