July 12th, 2022

***Fishing Report***

Walleye - Walleye fishing continues to be good to excellent for many anglers this last week. Anglers continue to find walleyes in 10 feet of water or less, in weedbeds.  Slip bobber a leech has been very effective for many, while others are pulling live bait rigs, tipped with a leech or crawler, on weedlines. A few anglers are also starting to report a good bite out on sunken islands now too. Out here it has been more lindy rigging and jigging raps.

Smallmouth Bass - Topwater bite continues to go hot and heavy, right now. Whopper ploppers continue to be very hot! Soft plastics worms and Ned rigs have also been very effective on smallies. Large boulder flats, rocky points and downed trees are the area you will want to fish, if your looking for smallies. 

Crappies - Crappies continue to found located next to downed trees and weedbeds. Evenings or low light periods have been the best time for catching crappies. Beetle spins, jig/twisters and crappie minnows under a bobber have all been very effective on crappies. 

Stream trout - Rainbows have been very active on area stream trout lakes. Anglers are seeing rainbows down at about 20 feet right now. They have been trolling cowbells, tipped with a small, bright colored minnow bait. Fishing a crawler 10 to 15 feet under a bobber has also been very effective.  

Lake trout - Anglers have continued to catch lakers trolling deep diving crankbaits or leadcoring stick baits about 20-30 feet down over deep water. Key colors have been solid white or bloodnose colored crankbaits. Anglers fishing from a canoe have been having luck jigging heavy pimples and bucktails over 50-100 feet of water.  

Pike - Pike anglers are starting to catch a few pike again. Anglers have been trolling heavy spoons, spinnerbaits and big minnow baits around weedbeds and river mouths. Fishing sucker minnows, under a bobber and off your docks has also been effective as of late.