Pool 8

Vernon County is home to Pool 8, a mapped reservoir with the latest inventory showing no dependable acreage or maximum-depth figure in the current record, so you can get the scale of the place before you ever make a cast.

A simple read on the lake

I would let the first few spots tell me what kind of day it is going to be by spending the early part of the day on a few easy-to-read spots that give me different depths or kinds of cover before I let one slow spot convince me the whole lake is dead.

The species on record

I cannot give you a trustworthy species list for Pool 8 from the current data; that keeps the page honest, even if it means there is less to say right now, and and then let the actual bites decide what comes next.

What I would do first

If I were putting together a simple plan for Pool 8, I would fish what is in front of me instead of trying to make the lake match an old report, and I would still look at the current Wisconsin regulations before fishing.