Fished the big lake from noon to 9 tonight with pretty marginal results. Caught 2 17″ channel cats, 2 small walleyes and a handful of decent crappies. About half the catch came on jig/leech combos, dragged slowly across sand bottom in 18-25 fow. The other half on pitched jig/berkeley power leech combos to rocky shorelines. Stuck a couple of nicer fish that came unbuttoned on the way in.
I’ve been fishing Wissota for about 7 years now, and I’ve never caught as many cats as I have this year. Channels and flats both! Maybe I’ve just been missing out, but it seems like my usual summertime walleye spots are crawling with cats this year.