Fished the northeast end of the lake this afternoon where I usually do pretty well. Only managed to get 3 crappies all on Rapala X-raps. Saw lots of bass but they wouldn't take anything I threw at them. My guess is that they were sitting on beds even though I couldn't see the actual beds. Sometimes the bass would attack the lure to chase it away if you put it in front of their face but that was it.
The water is still very cloudy. I think that it always will be. My feeling is that it gets a lot of run off from all of the surrounding park area, similar to a golf course pond. Also the bottom of the lake appears to be very muddy. The bass that I saw were in only about 2 feet of water or less and you could really only see them with polarized glasses. Anyway, I fish Lake Glenview a lot as it is only 5 minutes from my house.
I have been getting a few Largemouths out of Lake Glenview on jointed Rapalas. Caught 4 this morning and 1 cappie. Caught 4 last night along with a bluegil. All were caught on Jointed Floating Rapalas or Jointed Shad Raps. All of the bass have been between 12 and 16 inches. Saw a guy land two nice cats this morning. I don't know what he was using for bait.
i got out to lake glenview last sunday. I managed one 15 inch bass with a 3 inch silver floating rapala. I saw some huge carp come up also. Some guys that i talked to had caught 12 largemouth with nightcrawlers. They said that there biggest one was 4 lbs.
There are definitely some big bass in there. I saw one swimming yesterday that was atleast 18 inches. Last year I caught one that was close to 5#'s. I gave up on night crawlers because I mostly caught bluegills with them. I almost exclusively fish artificials such as crankbaits, stickbaits and plastics. I fish that lake several times a week during the summer months.
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