UL Island & LB

[MSM1970]

The thing you have to remember about the Lincoln Beach area is that the lava was pushed out in flows.  If you pay close attention to the exposed shoreline,  you can see the layers that were formed. Each layer is about 12 inches thick and 50 to 100 ft, long/wide.  So they are a series of steps extending from the shoreline out into the lake,  each "step" ( or shelf ) is 50 to 100 ft. long/wide, then a drop of about 12 inches, then another shelf.  Those "steps" extend out till you reach the mud basin.  Then you go for maybe a 1/4 mile till you hit the upwell that is Bird Island.  Those shelf's are the major "structure" on the south shore. You can follow the contour with your sonar and troll a bait along each lip where the fish may be holding.  The waders are casting on the deepest shelf they can reach and fishing the flat part before it drops off.  Sometimes it is hard to see the lip of the shelf due to the broken rock and rubble that is on it,  but they show up on your sonar pretty clearly !!  The whole length of Lincoln Beach is like that from the shore to the mud basin, 1/4 mile or so in width, with those 12 inch steps.  That lava is very snaggy, eats a lot of baits!!!  easier to fish from a boat than wading.

Very good way to put it,  I see some finding it with there motors,  where the waders are is not to snaggy like the island,  

was wonder if anyone has launched at LB lately.