July update!!

Just putting in a quick update on the fishing from this past month. Time has been flying by, and I see it has been early June since my last post. Thanks to some of our guests for reminding me to get to the blog to update it!!!
Fishing this July has been good and steady. All of our groups are catching fish. The lake trout bite has been pretty good the past week and a half now. Everyone fishing them have been pulling some in. They are sporadic feeders, and they do turn on and off throughout the day. Jigging has been very effective for them lately.
Walleye have been steady all summer long. Austin and I were out today and landed about 25 walleye in about 2-3 hours of fishing, the largest just short of 23 inch. Dragging spinner harnesses with bottom bouncers has been producing quite consistently. Jigging is always a good standard way to pull some in as well. Some groups have been catching them as shallow as 5-8 foot along the weeds. Today we were pulling most of them out of 12-20 feet of water along rock drops.
Smallies have been good and steady, but not fantastic yet. The cooler nights we have been having throughout July has kept the morning topwater action to a minimum. When we have had the warmer nights, the action has seemed to pick up significantly. We are still landing 30-70 bass on outings now with some effort. I was with a group yesterday and we pulled in about 40-50 bass and pike in about 6 hours of fishing. The largest was about 19 inches, with a good number of 14-17 inch fish. Still waiting for the phenomenol topwater action that we always seem to get by early August.
Pike have been steady, as they normally are, no matter what. We were out 3 days ago fishing pike and pulled in about 35-40 fish in a little over half a day of fishing, with 3 slot sized fish, and one about 13 pounds, just barely 35.5 inches. Most of the northern we landed were nice, girthy fish. Spinnerbaits, spoons, and spinners like the larger Mepps Minnow have been doing well, along with some deep diving crankbaits.
We are looking for some of the best fishing of the season to arrive as August and September come along. It is hard to believe the summer is already basically over half over!!!
Good fishing until next update!
Jody