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By: jmay
Posted: 8/6/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Fished silver from 7am to 1230pm. Later in the morning a few ski boats and jet skis but not super busy. Caught several crappie, a ton of sub legal blue gill and an assortment of 6-10inch perch. Abo...
By: BASSMAN1
Posted: 6/8/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
ME AND MY STEPDAD HIT SILVER ON THE 7TH TO TEST OUT THE NEW BOAT ORIGINALLY WENT FOR BASS BUT ONLY GOT ONE ON A RATTLE TRAP WE STARTED TO GET CRAPPIE AND FINISHED THE DAY WITH 43 CRAPPIE AND TWO 13' P...
By: PaulReilly
Posted: 8/4/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at some trailer court with a 5 dollar launch fee...what a rip off, the public launch in closed due to construction.
Took off across the lake to where a bunch of friends from the good ole' ...
By: weasel
Posted: 7/25/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/25/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my son out on the bass boat all day, we fished the far end away from the launch. We used the powerbait small minnows and jigged them through the weeds. There were many floating clumps of weeds ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Fun day on Silver! I hit this lake three times in early spring - the first two when there was still ice on the water - with absolutely no luck at all. The warm weather has definitely made things mor...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/3/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the water about 4:00 and proceeded to our favorite spot. Had some small perch in a matter of minutes after starting to fish. We continued to work the area and picked up numerous small crappie and ...
By: hewesfisher
Posted: 8/31/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/30/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to try Silver yesterday for the first time since the new launch went in. Got to the lake about 2:30 and no waiting at the launch, although, the swimmers were a nuisance. They didn't bother lea...
By: BMGW
Posted: 7/21/2009
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After a successful day before on Eloika for Crappie, it was time for me to head back to that other 4 letter word (work) and figured I would hit up Silver lake on my way back to the west side and see i...
By: yunin2005
Posted: 6/27/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Good day to fish , first day out for the season. Caught about 8-9 crappies had fun. The public docks were crowded and some of the people obnoxious and drunk. But overall a good start to a fresh season...
By: xxWalleyeManxx
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the late afternoon and early evening at Silver Lake. I fished a variety of crank baits with no luck. I was fishing in depths between 5' and 30'. I was trying to catch crappie and perch. I fina...
By: Anglinarcher
Posted: 7/26/2014
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/25/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Had to take a couple of grandkids to take out, so I figured that I would take my Son and his two kids out for some gills.
We found that early in the morning the gills were no where to be found, but...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/4/2021
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/4/2021
Hot Spots: 0
Stopped by Silver today. It's still frozen up
By: ryanrowe
Posted: 10/6/2018
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 9/30/2018
Hot Spots: 0
I took somewhat of a break from chasing tiger musky and took my 11 year old daughter out fly fishing in her float tube at Silver Lake. She was an absolute trooper! It was pretty cold for a kid to be o...
By: jechicdr
Posted: 7/25/2017
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/24/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake with my youngest daughter. Caught 32 bluegills big enough to fillet (much easier with my newest toy the Panhandler) and 18 perch between the two of us. Decided we probably shouldn't cat...
By: cumminsbassguy
Posted: 1/2/2017
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/2/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Since I don't want to do a secret report, I just picked silver lake, this report is for my little pond I go to,. Been going here for a couple months now, good sized gills and crappie with a few over 9...
By: dwh4784
Posted: 5/12/2016
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/12/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Yeah I know, who fishes for bluegill on this lake (or any lake for that matter). I wanted to take my four year old and just catch some fish, which we did to some extent, we did get into a couple small...
By: Jay K
Posted: 6/30/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Back to Silver this evening to de-stress by catching some bluegill; Glad they were cooperating. Fished from 1800-2030. I know it's getting repetitive, but used the usual size 18 parachute adams fly ...
By: Jay K
Posted: 7/3/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Gillfest is over as is the spawning period. Shorelines are empty except for a few lone males guarding their nests. Will see 'em next year.
Time to move on to perch fishing. Can't wait till ice f...
By: Jay K
Posted: 7/17/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 2
Fished: 7/16/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Caught a few bluegill fishing a parachute adams with a splash of red, but tough fishing. Tons of loud obnoxious recreational boaters/jet-skiers (hello to summer) as well as people lounging by the sho...
By: Jay K
Posted: 6/24/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished for bluegill for the first time and wasn't disappointed. Catching 'em on a size 18 parachute adams-like fly was a blast - best discount $.25 fly I ever bought from Cabela's. I didn't think I'...
By: Jay K
Posted: 6/24/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Thought I'd get out for some more bluegill. Fished from 830-1100. Couldn't believe it was even better than Tuesday's outing. Just about a fish on every cast. Didn't even know how many fish I'd cau...
By: Rozman
Posted: 8/9/2009
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/9/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I took my 2 1/2 year old out this afternoon for some fishing. I brought along one of my ice rods for him to play/fish with. He reeled in his first fish, I couldn't believe it!! I got it off the h...
By: Kfisherman
Posted: 7/2/2009
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/2/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Purchased some PowerBait crappie nibbles and wanted to try them out. Went out to Silver and found that the bluegills were spawning. Male fish were on the beds. Largest group was about 20 bluegills ...
By: Jay K
Posted: 9/10/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/9/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished 1500 to sunset for bluegill with a Thill Pro Series Weighted Jig Snell tipped with small pieces of shrimp ranging from 7' to 9' down. The bluegill love the shrimp and hit it consistently. Bro...
By: Jay K
Posted: 8/26/2010
Species: Bluegill
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Collected about twenty hand-sized gills over two days worth of evening fishing on 8/19 & 20 from ~1800 till sundown (till when I can't see my bobber anymore). Bite really seems to pickup right before...
