My toughest lake to fish. Is Beaver Lake. My wife's family has a cabin on the water, and a fun skiing boat and a tiny 8 ft plastic boat to fish from. I cannot figure it out and catch much more than nice bluegill!

What lake is the toughest for you?

Lake Ontario and the credit river.

My toughest lake to fish. Is Beaver Lake. My wife's family has a cabin on the water, and a fun skiing boat and a tiny 8 ft plastic boat to fish from. I cannot figure it out and catch much more than nice bluegill!

What lake is the toughest for you?

 

Nice bluegill, huh?

 

Any extra room in the cabin, because I'm looking for a tough lake!

Lol if you guys ever come near lakeland Georiga come fish banks lake! Its tough.

Blydenburgh lake Long Island NY.

Step 1: Find a spot to cast

No other steps b/c you won't find a spot to cast in the summer

Lake Seminole FL/GA

Lake Casitas in SoCal can be very tough for anyone who doesn't stay on top of the current bite. The bass at Casitas have a very short feeding period and you need to know the cycle or get skunked.

All our local SoCal lakes are a lot easier to consistently catch bass.

Tom

When i talked to kvd and tim horton. They both said... if you can catch fish in Indiana, you can catch fish anywhere. Small waters with alot more anglers. Fish patoka or Monroe and tell me how much fun you have. Doubt you'll have any.

Lake cachuma is the hardest for me.

Lake Hamilton Arkansas. Cheat Lake west virginia. 

Lacassine Wildlife Refuge, shallow water marsh, extremely clear, heavy vegetation. Opens March 15-October 15 which means your fishing the heat of summer.

When i talked to kvd and tim horton. They both said... if you can catch fish in Indiana, you can catch fish anywhere. Small waters with alot more anglers. Fish patoka or Monroe and tell me how much fun you have. Doubt you'll have any.

That's a fact, all though I have caught some really good fish on Monroe before they ( Ind. ) killed off all the pads... Patoka, love it for Crappie, Bluegills & even Stripes... Sucks for LMB though. Ind. is most assuredly a difficult state for the LMB, that's a fact.

My toughest lake to fish. Is Beaver Lake. My wife's family has a cabin on the water, and a fun skiing boat and a tiny 8 ft plastic boat to fish from. I cannot figure it out and catch much more than nice bluegill!

What lake is the toughest for you?

Beaver can be hard.  It takes on water from Table Rock to prevent flooding which changes the conditions a lot.  A lot of folks around there will just drive up to Table Rock or over to Bull Shoals.  You really need a good fishfinder to consistently do well throughout the year at all three. 

Any lake that has a lot of fishing pressure.

Whatever lake I happen to be at on any given day!  Seriously though,there are a couple that I haven't been able to figure out. Powers and Deer Lake in Wisconsin.  I don't visit them anymore because life is too short to get out and NOT catch fish on a regular basis.

Lake McClure

No lake compares to any in New mexico. Especially elephant butte lake. If you can catch bass in New mex than you can catch bass anywhere in the world.

Lake Tugalo, GA/SC.

My toughest lake to fish. Is Beaver Lake. My wife's family has a cabin on the water, and a fun skiing boat and a tiny 8 ft plastic boat to fish from. I cannot figure it out and catch much more than nice bluegill!

What lake is the toughest for you?

Man I love Beaver Lake, but you're right it is a tough nut to crack. Last time I was there was a couple of the best days of fishing that I've had. We both caught our PB stripers, Jon caught his PB wiper and smallmouth, and I caught a pig largemouth that was 6 1/4 and another that was 5. I'm afraid to go back because I'm sure I have several trips worth of catching nothing after that trip.

 

I hate Hillsdale! It was nice to me last year and I thought maybe it was coming around. This year, 5 trips for 3 bass and 2 crappie 

The lake that is the toughest for me is the one that I am not getting any bites.

 

Happens sooner or later.

 

One time you will go out on One Fish Anna and clobber them.  Next trip nothing.

 

Hit Buggs Island and get a five fish limit when the water is over 303 and the next time with the water level around 300 struggle for anything you can get to hit your baits.

 

Lake Gaston is a blast but she can be nasty at times.

 

Lake Chesdin is fun but with all of the boaters and skiers you can have a difficult time.

 

Chickahominy Lake can produce some nice ones but when the grass takes over you can forget it.

 

So if you hear that Lake So and So is hot all that means is that it was a fun place to fish on that one particular time and when you go out they will quit biting.

 

 

Smith Mountain Lake is beautiful but at times she does not want to give up her fish.

My home lake, Silver Lake, has a very bad, and well earned reputation as being brutally tuff. Some people say Conesus is tuff, but IMHO it's not,at least compared to Silver. The problem on Silver is a huge HUGE forage base, and a lot of large well fed fish. It's a timing lake. Be where they are when they are biting cause your not getting bit until they turn on. At least on Conesus when they are "off" I can scrape up a few bites here and there. Silver is also for the most part a giant bath-tub, lined with grass and docks, they don't get in big groups, and the are almost un-patternable. You can catch a big one in the grass just as easy as you can from under a dock, or from the outside grass edge, or from one of the few pieces of cover outside the grass in deeper water....and often all on the same day, It's a junk fishing lake. On Conesus I can usually get a solid pattern working. The only thing Silver has on Conesus, is even though it's smaller, there is less IMHO "dead" water, but IDK if that's just because I spend 100 days a year on Silver and a dozen on Conesus, so I know all the little "spots on the spots" on Silver....and even after 10 straight years of fishing Silver 100+ times a season, each year I find new "little" spots, that lake is always changing.

For me its the Big O and the Kissimmee River after a major cold front.

They just sit in one spot and shiver for a few days where you cant get to them or they just swim by and laugh at me.

Mike

Hi new to the forums. I disagree with lacassine refuge. Always found it more productive down here than anywhere. Especially more productive than calcasieu river

IMHO, the only thing that makes a lake tough is the fisherman and not the fish.

 

Let's face it, some lakes just don't have a decent population of bass, and no amount of effort on our part is going to change that.  When you end up going to one of these lakes, adjusting your goals is the key.

 

What is that "Lipstick on a Pig" saying?

Come fish in Delaware.You can't load your boat up fast eneough,to get back home.LOL