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Leland Fishing Reports

By: BMGW
Posted: 9/30/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/30/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had to clean the pine needles out of my boat, so went for a ride and blew most of them out by the time I hit the lake. As you can see there are still fish in Leland to be had. Klahowya!
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By: BMGW
Posted: 9/5/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Such beautiful weather and busy times before us my wife and I decided to hit the lake rather late in the afternoon. We managed to catch a fair number of fish in a short time including what may be my p...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 8/7/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Worked darn hard for a couple nice keepers, there were more boats on the lake than I think I have ever seen at any one time. Caught a lot of Rainbows close in on my crappie jigs, they are now startin...
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Posted: 7/27/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/26/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I joined BassDood for a day of LMB fishing the shores of Leland. The weather was a light rain, no wind and glass smooth. Water temp. in the mid 60s, air temp the same. We pretty much had the lake to o...
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By: eddieg1
Posted: 7/23/2011
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/23/2011
Hot Spots: 0
This was the first time fishing this lake with my gf. We arrived at the lake about 0945. The water was flat as can be and the view of the mountains were awesome! As for the fishing it was an average d...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 7/21/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/20/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well my fishing partner couldn't go so I headed out solo for a few hours of relaxation, ha! The Perch just would not let me relax. Heya Alex look what you missed... Les there are still Perch to be ...
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Posted: 7/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/7/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Leland for the first time this year. I had read Don had been catching some perch and I wanted to also. I trolled wedding rings with worm and all I could catch was trout. Don, where are the perc...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 7/2/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Met up with fellow WL.com member RicknTA somewhere around 3:30 and we put in a good effort for the Crappie. Worked about half the lake over good and could only muster up a few half hearted bites and ...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/30/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/29/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out with fellow WL.com member MrA to Leland and stopped on the way to make delivery of some of my jigs and met up with WL.com member RicknTK and talked about Leland. Hope to get out with Rick ...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/24/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I wasnt supposed to go fishing today but I had a maggot farm going and they were in white corn meal cleaning up, least wise I thought they were the last time I had looked; turned out they were dying ...
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By: MR_A
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I started off wanting to catch some perch on a fly rod i have had for about the past 15 years and have never used. After not catching anything for about ten minutes i broke out old reliabe and put th...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
My faithful fishing partner labrador wanted to go to the lake and play stick, so that was excuse enough for me to grab my fishing gear and indulge the dog. Went for more Perch but ended up just slayi...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/19/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/16/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It was a slow day at the shop and a nice day shaping up so my son felt like going fishing and thats enough excuse for me to roll the sign closed and hitch up and get. We found the lake mostly vacant ...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/12/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/12/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Headed to Leland in front of a weather change and started out slow but the change turned the bite on mid to late afternoon. Met my friend Alex on the water already and he was putting the steel to the...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 6/10/2011
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It was a slow day at the shop and when my buddy Alex showed up and said "lets go fishing" , we were out the door and the sign flipped to close faster than a Crappie lift bite.. We decided to target t...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 5/28/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/27/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Had not fished Leland this year in a driving rain, call me nutz but it sometimes produces a fantastic Crappie bite. Got to the lake about 4pm there was one boat out bassin, campground had about 4 part...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 5/19/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/18/2011
Hot Spots: 0
It's just been one thing after another keeping me off the water, and yesterdays weather was just driving me nutz thinking about it, so I closed the business down after noon and headed to Leland to che...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 4/24/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/24/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well for those of you who have been monitoring the situation with the cormorants wiping out Lake Leland, the good news is they didn't get all the fish. I managed to graph and then catch a couple crap...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 4/4/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Campground is not open yet, but signs of activity. Good news is that there were only 4 cormorant to be found on the lake. Bad news is that I only graphed a little more than a couple dozen fish in ab...
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Posted: 3/8/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I caught a good sized trout (14-16 inches) using a castmaster lure. I had tried casting off the dock with some powerbait eggs and some different lures with no success. I got a tip to try working the...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 3/6/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/6/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Very Very bad news! The damn Cormorants have decimated this lake! There are still 60+ of them working the lake over and the fish I am graphing are so few now I think even the trout that were just pl...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 2/13/2011
Species: Crappie
Rating: 1
Fished: 2/13/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Looking at the calendar this morning realized, I have a string of gunshows coming up so the weather was giving us an opportunity to plant the half dozen christmas trees we put together for Crappie str...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 11/24/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Stoked by the last 4 days of very cold temps I was headed out to Leland with my ICE FISHING gear and Vexilar anticipating some hard water fun only to find the lake did not even have any skim ice yet. ...
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By: BMGW
Posted: 11/15/2010
Species: Crappie
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Just received a couple new colors in for my jig selection of Dons Dandy Crappie jigs and couldn't wait to try it out. The two colors are pink/white and pink/clear sparkle. Whenever I test out new pr...
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Posted: 11/14/2010
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 11/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Started the day by running into Don, had a nice chat about fishing in general. Fishing was slow for a few hours, then slowly improved. Wish I had moved earlier cause the fishing was good from about ...
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