Pepin bite

So with the water starting to come down, is how will the presentation change also? Still pulling cranks on the edges shores, spinners etc? Thanks.

What exactly are you targeting? I’m not much of a bass guy, but I do my best to stay on eyes and saugers. For me, the bite will probably slow some into July and August (or I’m just not a great angler).

Pulling cranks is a good strategy all summer for me. I find that as the water drops and temps warm, fish really spread out. Deeper sand flats seem to hold fish all summer, but I generally have to troll and cover water to keep on fish. Bottom bouncers and spinners with leeches and crawlers will produce as well. Once the “dog days of summer” come with the hottest of temps, a lot of people hold up on productive wingdams and do quite well. Personally, that’s not my cup of tea but it’s very productive for a lot of people. There’s generally some sort of bite close to shorelines through most of the summer as depicted in the Go Angling video, but it does slow. If pulling cranks near shore, I’ll start to concentrate on tributaries more where cool water comes in.

I’m sure others who are bigger experts can chime in, but my tactics are mainly based on covering as much water as possible throughout the Summer.

I would be targeting walleyes.

The game is ALWAYS the same.
Find fish.
Figure out how to catch fish.

Water levels and water temperature fluctuate and move fish accordingly. Expect to continually adjust when fishing a changing system.

If you come to Ido looking for a working pattern, your almost always a day late and dollar short.

I was out last Thursday and again today. I tried trolling and casting shallow right away each morning catching everything but a walleye. Par for me,..I’m terrible at fishing shallow. Did decent pulling bait on points in 15 to 20 fow. Fishing slow for us this morning but then it turned on mid day. Hok si La landing quiet. Friends trolling Bay City flats had moderate success. Goodluck.

Took the FW out today. Pulled 3-way bait right away off a couple of points in 17-21 fow. Typical river potpourri. Drum, short walleyes, several keeper and short saugers, a keeper perch, and 2 big crappies. Today the fish preferred minnows. Slow death worm and a green phelps floater with a leech took a few fish but not many. Nice to not have to fight much wind. LOTS of fish on the graph with a few here and there biting.

buckybadger wrote:

What exactly are you targeting? I’m not much of a bass guy, but I do my best to stay on eyes and saugers. For me, the bite will probably slow some into July and August (or I’m just not a great angler).

Pulling cranks is a good strategy all summer for me. I find that as the water drops and temps warm, fish really spread out. Deeper sand flats seem to hold fish all summer, but I generally have to troll and cover water to keep on fish. Bottom bouncers and spinners with leeches and crawlers will produce as well. Once the “dog days of summer” come with the hottest of temps, a lot of people hold up on productive wingdams and do quite well. Personally, that’s not my cup of tea but it’s very productive for a lot of people. There’s generally some sort of bite close to shorelines through most of the summer as depicted in the Go Angling video, but it does slow. If pulling cranks near shore, I’ll start to concentrate on tributaries more where cool water comes in.

I’m sure others who are bigger experts can chime in, but my tactics are mainly based on covering as much water as possible throughout the Summer.

buckybadger wrote:

What exactly are you targeting? I’m not much of a bass guy, but I do my best to stay on eyes and saugers. For me, the bite will probably slow some into July and August (or I’m just not a great angler).

Pulling cranks is a good strategy all summer for me. I find that as the water drops and temps warm, fish really spread out. Deeper sand flats seem to hold fish all summer, but I generally have to troll and cover water to keep on fish. Bottom bouncers and spinners with leeches and crawlers will produce as well. Once the “dog days of summer” come with the hottest of temps, a lot of people hold up on productive wingdams and do quite well. Personally, that’s not my cup of tea but it’s very productive for a lot of people. There’s generally some sort of bite close to shorelines through most of the summer as depicted in the Go Angling video, but it does slow. If pulling cranks near shore, I’ll start to concentrate on tributaries more where cool water comes in.

I’m sure others who are bigger experts can chime in, but my tactics are mainly based on covering as much water as possible throughout the Summer.

I would be looking for walleyes.

Thinking about heading out to pepin early Saturday morning. I’m a novice fisherman. Is it worth a very early
morning to fish and try and beat the heat.

Three of us pulled Denver rigs for 5 hours yesterday around Lake City and it was slow going. Ended up leaving with six fish.

Headed to Pepin today to try and figure out leadcore. Ended up not catching anything but did learn some lessons with the lead. Water temp was 70. Talked to a couple guys at the landing who had a good day of fishing. One guy caught and released a 29.5”
. This is my fourth time fishing this section love the view always learn something new.