July 27th, 2022

***Fishing Report***

Walleye - Walleye fishing has slowed this last week. Walleye locations are becoming more and more mixed between shallow water, deep reefs and open water trolling. High winds pushed walleyes shallow on many lakes. Anglers found walleyes in 5-9 feet of water. Slip bobbers and a leech has been very effective up here. Anglers also reported finding good numbers of walleyes out on sunken islands, in 15-20 feet of water. Anglers have been catching walleyes on jigging raps, jigs tipped with a leech or crawler and pulling spinner rigs. Gold, pink, silver and chartreuse have been popular colors. There is a small group of anglers that have been reporting success trolling deep divers over deep water, during the evening hours, for big walleyes chasing ciscos. Out here white, blood nose and cisco colored crankbaits has been very effective. 

Smallmouth - Smallmouth bass anglers continue to have good success catching bass on topwater baits. Whopper ploppers, fished early in the day, continue to be the hottest topwater bait for smallies. As the sun gets up, anglers switch to more spinnerbaits and soft plastics. Wacky rigs and Ned rigs continue to be very effective on smallies. 

Lake trout - Anglers continue to have success trolling leadcore for lakers. Shallow diving crankbaits trolled behind 5 colors of leadcore has been very effective.  Solid white and blood nose colored crankbaits has been the way to go here. 

Crappies - Crappies fishing has remained steady this last week. Angler continue to find crappies just outside weedbeds during the day, then as evening comes crappies slide up, into the weedbeds. Jig and twister has been very effective, as well as crappie minnows fished under a bobber.