If your east of 94 you must pretty much be in the city limits.  I'd be fun for everybody to get together for a day or two.  Makes for good little mini vacation.

Nope, I'm in Franksville.  I could be 2,000 miles from home and I still tell people Franksville, rather than Racine, Mil-town, etc.  ;D

With all these dang yuppie subdivisions, it's beginning to feel like the city.  I knew we were in trouble when the speed limit on our road went from 55 to 30.  :'(

Koop, looks like it's gonna be Madison, better start layin' this puppy out!

I demand a re-count! >

Well I think its best to wait until start of next month and see who is actually coming and then see where everyone wants to go.  As besides maybe 6ish of us here, there have been a few more votes by people who haven't spoken up.

However if we do end up on Madison Chain, we can start on Mendota and lock into Monona after lunch. 

Well I think its best to wait until start of next month and see who is actually coming and then see where everyone wants to go. As besides maybe 6ish of us here, there have been a few more votes by people who haven't spoken up.

However if we do end up on Madison Chain, we can start on Mendota and lock into Monona after lunch.

Far be it for me to ask but I'm going to anyways; are the nude beaches open yet or did they shut them down?  Not trying to sway anyone, just saying......

Still open around Monona bay.

Well I think its best to wait until start of next month and see who is actually coming and then see where everyone wants to go. As besides maybe 6ish of us here, there have been a few more votes by people who haven't spoken up.

However if we do end up on Madison Chain, we can start on Mendota and lock into Monona after lunch.

Far be it for me to ask but I'm going to anyways; are the nude beaches open yet or did they shut them down? Not trying to sway anyone, just saying......

Nude beaches? That's it I am in for sure!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys better be planning on just looking and not participating. That would be CRIMINAL.

You guys better be planning on just looking and not participating. That would be CRIMINAL.

Get out the CUFFs!!

I really hope I am able to make this trip.  I also hope Madison wins, though I'll be happy anywhere.

As a kid, the chain was pretty much where I learned to ice-fish.

Another reason I want to go is to check-out Koop's Dobyns rods.  I have never even held one, and am interested in purchasing a few; if I have a chance to see them before buying them, then all the better.  8-)

I've spent years driving past, through and around the Madison lakes and have never been able to fish them.  i would look forward to it.

Well Madison Chain sounds good, less driving as well.

Ken- we can always make a trip to buffalo at a different time like on a weekday.

Well Madison Chain sounds good, less driving as well.

Ken- we can always make a trip to buffalo at a different time like on a weekday.

Was gonna ask you, what's up with Buffalo?  Buffalo county, or is there a Buffalo Lake?  I'm not familiar.

Buffalo lake, best top water lake I have ever fished.

I still demand a re-count.

let me know when & where, if not involved in a tourney at the time I'd be in!

Koop I cant believe you forgot about some of wisconsons best under rated bass spots. The sturgeon bay shipping channel in door county is a great one. Just be careful fishing it. They have a 2 man 200 boat bass turny in the spring and fall. Also hayward is a great place. Way under rated because people that go there only fish for muskies. The same gos for the minocqua eagle river area lakes.

Koop I cant believe you forgot about some of wisconsons best under rated bass spots. The sturgeon bay shipping channel in door county is a great one. Just be careful fishing it. They have a 2 man 200 boat bass turny in the spring and fall. Also hayward is a great place. Way under rated because people that go there only fish for muskies. The same gos for the minocqua eagle river area lakes.

The idea is to keep it local to southern Wisconsin, some of our Illinois friends will be migrating north for this and we want to keep the drive reasonable for everyone. 8-)

I have heard tons about the Gile Flowage towards Ironwood, and am going to try a run that direction this summer for smallies, it should be a productive water.

Ok I I guess that makes sense.  I would love to head up north some time. But since I don't have a boat and cant fish the waters the right way. I can save time and money fishing the wi river from shore. If I could afford to go on your little local trip I would chose madison. I have heard nothing bad about them lakes.   

Ok I I guess that makes sense. I would love to head up north some time. But since I don't have a boat and cant fish the waters the right way. I can save time and money fishing the wi river from shore. If I could afford to go on your little local trip I would chose madison. I have heard nothing bad about them lakes.

tipp I thought you bought a boat a couple years ago.

I was going to but backed out. I went to school over a boat. That was a mistake.

tipptruck1, as long as you're around, tell me what you know about Chuck's landing.  I'm thinking launch and go up stream?

I great place to to fish. You might not catch monster smallies. But It is a fun place to fish. MY and a buddy would launch at chucks and burn the banks in the morning with spinners and jigs. Then around mid day the smallie bite would die off. So we would start chasing pike. the pike bite would die off and we start chasing smallies again in the evening. we would fish from chucks down to beans eddy. Its not hard to spend a day on that part of the river. I think there was a few days that we would get skunked. Not hard to catch 30 in pike. The bass are a few ponds. I have only caught maybe one or two under limit. But I have caught one weighting over 4.5 lbs. hers a pictures of the bass that seem like they avg. this size.

let me add this this span of river can be fun to fish or not fun. What I mean by not fun are the snags. Theres days were you can go every cast and get a snag. You also have to watch the water. If you have two people in the boat your buddy is also watching for stuff in the water while on plane. When the water is ruff its hard to see logs in the water.

That's (stumps/logs)  what I was kinda wondering about.  I'm out of Stratford but work in Kronenwetter.  Thinking of finding my way around that area this summer.  I drive by it all the time, why not?

So does Chuck's landing have anything to do with Chuck Brod?