Fishing update 6-24-09

Just a quick post updating our recent fishing activity. Overall, it has been a good spring. Some recent groups have done excellent on big walleye, and others just getting good pan fryers. Many 23-27 inch walleye have been caught and mostly released the past few weeks, the largest to date is a 29 inch caught just this week by one of our new guests who came all the way from Kansas to show us how to do it. Some nice pike have been taken, with the largest I heard of so far being a 44" which was also released. The bass have been very active, everyone fishing them is catching numbers of them, with a lot of larger bass being caught. They should be spawning in about a week or so, many bass are on beds now.
Everyone fishing lake trout have been catching them. Some of our new groups that have never fished lakers before are going out and doing quite well. Today a new group from WI went out and landed 5 nice trout before 9 a.m. I went out today and we caught a total of 8 trout, with the largest being about 8 and 1/2 pounds, and some 15-20 inchers which is a good sign for the future of the fishery in our lake. Until next time, keep on fishing!

Fishing Report 6-7-09

Just another quick update on the current fishing in the area. Water temps are warming slower than normal, due to such cool evenings and nights. Everybody is catching some fish though, some groups are doing very good on walleye, others are struggling a bit. This past week we had some cold, windy days which made fishing for anything tougher than normal. This weekend, the weather finally straightened out and the bite picked up. I was out yesterday and today for a bit, landed about 18 walleye each time in a couple hours of fishing. Today we caught them right at high noon! Vertical jigging with live minnows seems to be working the best. Regular flourescent pink, orange, and chartreuse jigs work well 1/8 to 3/8th, and smaller tinsel tail jigs have been very good too. The bass are really turning on good as the shallows are warming, near 58 degrees surface in some of the bays, and spawn period is approaching. Everyone fishing for smallies is getting them. Some groups are landing 75-100 fish per day. The northern bite is steady, some 36-40 inchers caught and released recently, with two 37's landed and released today. White plastic flukes twitched along with no weight in the 5-6 inch size seem to be working great, along with minnow baits as well. Trout are somewhat steady, with some groups doing quite well trolling deeper water with crankbaits and spoons, flat-lining straight back. Very few trout are still shallow. With the weather forecast looking to steadily warm up, the fishing should get better as June progresses.