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To get to the lake from the hotel, all you have to do is cross the road and you're there. I tried to do a few early morning swims but failed miserably for 2 reasons:
Both sports are very popular around the lake shore in the morning. On the eastern shore, the sun doesn't rise above the surrounding mountains until after 9am. As a result, the early morning is fairly breezy. Once the sun does rise, the wind dies down completely but it means the wind-surfers have the beach to themselves for most of the early morning.
Fishing on the lake doesn't seem to be very popular around Malcesine. There are fish in the lake; some of the restaurants have a speciality fish dish. It's main ingredient is a cross between salmon and trout and it's very tasty!
There's a lot of boating as you would expect. Boats are continually zig-zagging the lake with a number of car and passenger ferries crossing the lake at various points.
There are a number of organised tours of the lake, visiting places like Tòrbole - the most northern point of the lake - and Sirmione on the south shore.
Malcesine itself is quite a nice little town. I don't know how busy it is in the winter months but in the summer, it's packed. Lake Garda is close to the Swiss/Austrian border and it would seem that people from these countries ( and Germany ) get away to Lake Garda in the same way as people in the UK go to Blackpool for the weekend. However, the nightlife in Malcesine isn't quite the same. There is a nightclub but it's nothing like those of the UK or other Mediterranean resorts.
Finally, there are some more random photos from Lake Garda here.
