Weekend Fishing Report for Lake Wisconsin Headwaters.
Once we got through the cold early morning temperatures, the weather this weekend was actually quite nice. Not very much wind on either day and plenty of sun. Air temps climbed as high as 40 degrees on Sunday and due to the calm winds, it actually felt even warmer.
Water temps actually dropped about 5 degrees from the previous weekend and that will usually slow things down some. Last weekend we had surface water temperatures that reached as high as 42 degrees, this weekend they started out at 37 degrees in the morning and by Sunday afternoon managed to finally climb back up to 40 degrees.
The fish were still there though. They were less active than last weekend, but on Saturday at least, Louis Siller was able to catch his limit. We caught them by slowly pulling twister tails upstream behind stick sinkers. Louis caught all five of his fish between 1 and 4pm. We also caught a sixth sauger that was a bit under 15", which I mention because it was only the second short fish we’ve caught the last two weekends.
On Sunday however, it seems we were determined to catch them in the same location and that may very well have been our down fall.
Larry Pakyz and Bill Alt joined me on the water today and we all really enjoyed being able to fish in such nice spring weather, but we only pulled one legal walleye between the three of us. Several others hit our jigs, but none of them felt the hook. Two of them did come close to pulling the plastic right off my jig though.
I think part of the problem is that when a couple of old timers like these two get in my boat, a few to many stories get spun and the next thing ya know, your not really concentrating on fishing as hard as you should be. Instead you just end up eating donuts and muffins while listening to dentist jokes that should have been retired when the dentist did.
Just kidding guys! Even if the fish don’t bite, I know there won’t be any dull moments on the water with you two the boat.
Good luck out there guys!
JWB
Great report Joel I always enjoy reading your reports. Any word on the Lake Wisconsin crappies and if there is any size to them this year? Thanks again Mark
Thanks mb757,
It’s always good to hear from people who enjoy reading my reports!
Although the main lake is pretty much open, most of the bays were still iced over as of last weekend. The inner bays are pretty much ice free but all the boat landings in the middle to lower end of the lake are still iced up.
I would guess that whats left of the ice will be gone by the end of this coming weekend.
Have not targeted crappies yet this year but there is no reason to think it will be any different than last year.
JWB
JWB.
You peaked my interest in the technique you are using pulling twister tails upstream behind stick sinkers. Are you putting the twister tail on a jighead or a plain hook. I have had good success the last couple of years pulling upstream above wingdams with a type of Dubuque rig. My rig consists of a 3/8 or 1/2 ounce jighead with a superdoo on on an 18″ dropper with a 3′ leader to a ringworm on a plain hook. 50% of the fish come on the dropper and 50% on the trailing ringworm. They usually really clobber the ringworm. The stick sinkers would probably be more effective in deeper areas or areas with more current.
Very sorry gass11, but I cannot tell you the specifics of my rig.
Being a guide, I feel that I do need to keep a few of my better discoveries to myself. After all, everybody can see me out there where we are fishing. If I tell them exactly what I’m doing, then not very many will ever feel the need to hire me. Especially since they know what I’m doing already anyway.
Sorry!
JWB