Oct. 13, 2020

This is the last fishing report until ice fishing starts

Walleye - Walleye fishing showed good signs of improvement as several anglers reported good bites with quality walleyes being caught.  Key was to fish large baits, deep.  Anglers trolling large minnow baits in 25-30 feet of water, along sharpe breaks had the best reports of catching big walleyes.  Live bait anglers also reported catching walleyes along sharpe shoreline breaks.  Here vertical jigging or lindy rigging large minnows up and down the break, proved to be very effective on hungry fall walleyes.  20-35 feet of water is where anglers reported catching walleyes with minnows. 

Pike - Pike fishing remains steady with some bigger pike being caught.  Pike are now largely being located on shallow, rocky, shoreline flats and around river mouths.  Pike are simply staging here looking for spawning whitefish and ciscos.  These pike are looking for large meals, so large suckers, spoons and large minnow have been very effective on them right now.

Stream Trout - Stream trout has remained good to excellent for many anglers targeting them.  As water temps continue to fall the bite will only get better. Shore anglers are catching good numbers of trout fishing night crawlers under a bobber and throwing small spoons.  Anglers fishing from a boat have been having good luck trolling small minnow baits and small spoons, just 5-10 feet down over deep water.