Feb. 2, 2021

Lake Trout - Lake trout fishing picked up late last week and continued to improve throughout the weekend. Anglers reported catching lakers in 20-40 feet of water with blue and white bucktail jigs tipped with a minnow or gulp minnow as the most successful technique.  Dead bait laid on the bottom, accounted for almost half of the lakers caught over the weekend, so be sure to set out tip ups!

Stream Trout - Stream trout fishing was a little slow, but steady for anglers. Anglers focused their time early and late in the day, as they are finding trout are most active during those times.  Small panfish jigs tipped with soft plastics produced the most consistent bite, but spoons tipped with wax worms also accounted for their far share of trout caught also.

Panfish - Panfish was very slow last weekend. Anglers are struggling to find active crappies during the day and had very limited luck catching them after dark.  Anglers targeting sunfish reported better luck, but also said it was slow overall.  These anglers caught sunnies along weedlines in 10-15 feet of water with small jigs tipped with wax worms. 

Eelpout - Eelpout have begun popping up in anglers fishing reports.  Anglers have been finding them deep in 30-50 feet of water right now and the bite largely remains after dark.  Anglers have been using heavy glowing eelpout jigs, loaded up with smelt or sucker minnow chunks and pounded on the bottom.  

Walleye - Walleye anglers have remained few and far between, and the painfully slow bite is likely to blame.  Anglers have been struggling to find one or to walleyes a night on their favorite spots.  Deep mud in 23-28 feet of water has been just about the only place producing fish.  Deadsticking a minnow about a foot off the bottom has been the only technique worth noting.