I’ve been out a few times in the last week and found the fish to be turning on even with all the unstable weather we’ve had lately. Usually start thrown decent sized cranks for bass and northerns and I hooked up with a few nice ones. I threw a spinnerbait into some trees (after I lost 2 cranks in them) and whala: 19″ largemouth. Stuck with it and it seemed to be the ticket. Anyone else got anything working for them? Pax
Pax I’ve been trying to catch a sturgeon with no luck lately. I may get out on either Menomin or Tainter this weekend and will post if I do and how I do. I hope it doesn’t rain all weekend. Steve
Had a tough time last weekend. I tried soft plastics in the shallows for a bit but was only able to pick up four small bass and one 5lb trout. Next I went with a jig along the deep weed edges only managed one bass 17 inches. I then tied on crankbait and got zipped. I went to a spinnerbait next and got two small bass. Lastly I threw the trusty Thunderstick managed six bass. The fish were hitting great on Friday but I had a tough time on Sat and Sun morns. I could see them laying in the weeds but they werent aggressive, the ones I did hook just sucked in the jigs and worms compared to two weeks ago when they pounded it. Hoping to get out Sunday morn early. Try a topwater slop bite out on Bass lake. The few times I have been out there this year before sunrise the slop bit has been fantastic.
Lienieman- This rain this year has been a killer for the most part (esp on the rivers) but on the lakes it has been okay for the most part – LOTS of flooded timber and even in some lakes you can get to places not always accessable. Sturgeon would be a blast. Had one in the boat this spring from down on the Mississippi. Red Rock — topwater is one of my absolute favorite ways of fishing but I haven’t done very well with it this year. Fishing the fringes with buzzbaits was great though. I have a feeling the slop fishing is done as is using buzzbaits. It’s scary but I’m getting excited about ice fishing already. Lots of great ice fishing lakes around you Red Rock (New Richmond – Correct?). Wind and rain are staring to really drive me nuts. What do you think that the higher water levels will do for/against ice fishing?
Went out on Sunday to a small lake outside of Somerset that I havent fished for two years. Lots of flodded timber and some good weedbeds. The timber is so great to fish thats all I foucused on. The weather was not so good later in the morning but from 5:30 until 10 it was great. The fishing was superb. I was fishing floded timber with a willow leaf spinnerbait. Workied it real slow. Caught 2 nice Bass. Saw several top water blow ups so I switched to a pop r . Cuaght 4 with one bieng 4.2lbs.Had many more miss the bait. The water was coffe brown from the rain on Saturday night they just couldn’t get a good bearing on the bait I guess. I was making a pass near a floating dockwhere I saw baitfish surfacing like crazyI checked my graph and could see clouds of them all gathered around the dock. I tied on a silver Thuunderstick and just threw it in the schoool and twitched it. Caught three nice1-3 lbers before they wised up. All in all a fun day on a lake I had given up on. I will be out there next Saturday hopefully the weather holds up.
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