Number Thirteen Pool

For anglers around Juneau County, Number Thirteen Pool is a local reservoir and the published measurements are no dependable acreage or maximum-depth figure in the current record, so you can plan the trip around the water that is really there, not the lake you imagined.

The kind of water this is

I would rather fish a handful of good-looking spots well with the first real effort focused on a few easy-to-read spots that give me different depths or kinds of cover because good fishing usually gets simpler once one clue starts repeating.

The fishing side of the page

I do not have a clean exact-water species list for Number Thirteen Pool right now; that keeps the page honest, even if it means there is less to say right now, and without turning a simple lake trip into a gear-hauling contest.

A laid-back first trip

If I wanted the first trip to Number Thirteen Pool to actually teach me something, I would fish what is in front of me instead of trying to make the lake match an old report, then I would check the latest Wisconsin regulation details before the day starts.