June 30, 2020

***Fishing Report***

Walleye - Walleye fishing is slowly starting to improve on many area lakes, as mayflies wrap up their annual hatch.   Locations where anglers are finding walleyes vary as much as the anglers.  Shallow weedbeds, deep mud, around sunken islands and trolling over deep water for suspended walleyes, all have been working for anglers.  Anglers finding them shallow are catching them by casting crankbaits or jig and minnows.  Anglers finding them in the mud or around sunken islands are finding them in 15-20 feet of water and are using leeches or crawlers on spinner rigs or lindy rigs.  Anglers finding walleyes suspended out over deep water are catching them with deep diving Shad raps or tail dancers, during the evening hours.  

Lake Trout - Lake trout fishing has been as hot as recent air temps!  Anglers continue reporting excellent fishing for lake trout on many area lake trout lakes.  Anglers have been finding them out over deep water, trolling large trolling spoons, behind down riggers or leadcoring.  Anglers fishing from a canoe have been having luck using large bucktails or tubes, jigged aggressively in deep water, as they drift over deep water.

Bass - Both Smallmouth and Largemouth bass have been aggressively hitting topwater baits like frogs, whopper ploppers and hula poppers.  As the sun gets up in the sky, anglers continue to catch bass by going subsurface with spinnerbaits, beetle spins and wacky worms.  Anglers have been finding bass shallow around downed trees, weedbeds and around large boulders in the water. 

Pike - Small Pike have remained very active in shallow water.  There has been a few reports of some big pike being caught in weedbeds too, as of late. Anglers have been catching them with buzzbaits, spinnerbaits and spoons.  Areas to target them has been shallow weedbeds, mouths of shallow bays and river mouths.