What a beautiful day to be out!! That being said..what a great day on the water!!!! Brought the kids out to Altoona this afternoon/early evening, and did awesome on the perch. We fished shallow with waxies and minnows and had a ball catching and keeping 10 nice perch and one nice crappie. Enough for dinner tomorrow night! Wait.. I may be back tomorrow night!
Back at it tonight, and the wind blew harder, and the fish bit harder, too! No problem finding a limit of perch and crappie. Waxies and minnows did the work again, but the bigger fish seemed to like the minnows. After limiting out on panfish I focused on walleyes. I found them, but most were short. Trolled the shoreline, lost one maybe 18″, while I was trying hard not to crash my boat, then landed a 22″ hog to cap off the night. Great night fishing once again!
Sorry, cell phone picture!
Anyone with kids in the Chippewa Valley need not look any further than Lake Altoona for some fishing fun right now! The perch bite remains hot in the early evenings. Peglegs are my bait of choice fished off the bottom, tipped with either a waxie or small piece of crawler in about 6-8 FOW. Getting some real hogs too. Towards dusk, however, the smaller fish start biting. At this time I would recommend chasing eyes instead. Pull cranks along the weedlines. Silver, firetiger, and purple are good colors. 
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