Wednesday, June 5, 2019


June 5th update

Fishing report…..water temps have finally come up some and our resort guests are seeing variety of water temps in the upper 50s.  We have gotten more than average rainfall this spring so the water levels are little higher than normal but not high enough to create on issues.

Crappie….The last two days the crappie fishing has finally really picked up with limits of some beautiful crappie up to 14 inches. They are at least two weeks late on moving into the spawning beds for this end of the lake due to the cooler spring temps and lack of sun which has restricted weed growth for cover.  I would suspect the next week the crappie fishing will be hot.  Fish are being caught in less than 2 ft of water using light jigs tipped with red and white tubes . Also minnows are working .  On group of our  long time quests from Dubuque Iowa ( Tommy Ball crew of 12 fisherman ) are doing very well getting their crappie and sunny limits.


Bass… Bass fishing has been slow and fish seem to have not moved into shallow water or gotten active.  One group of guests reported today they starting to catch Largemouth on a  standard Texas rigged Sinko.  Smallmouth that have been caught are full of eggs . Those caught have been in 8-10 ft of water on crank baits.  They have not moved up yet into the shallows or on the beds as of today.


Walleye… Since opener the larger fish seem to have been scattered throughout a range of depths from 10-25ft.  All the action has been on minnows.  Most of the fish we have seen kept by guests and Guests that have been out with guides are walleye ranging from 13-15 inches.  


However, yesterday we had Guests fishing in front of the Dam and off the resort fishing dock with slip bobbers / leeches catch several big walleye . Sizes ranged from 25-28 inches. These appear to be post spawn females.  It was crazy for a while we had 8-10 fisherman on our floating dock fishing.



Pike….Several groups over the last two weeks have targeted pike and done well on the lake but many reports of lack of good weed beds /cover.  Greenwood bay has been hot since the opener for Pike.  Other areas that have been producing is Wake-em-up narrows area in Indian bay.  Some of the hotter baits producing fish are perch colored rattle traps and the old Standby Number 5 Mepps spinner ( orange and black.)  We had a group of fisherman ( Seth Larson Crew) from Windfield , MO, who all had good river fishing experience take their boats up the road and put in on the Vermilion River (  just a few miles north of the resort ) They had a great day fishing Pike and boating over 50 fish per Boat. Nothing huge but hot action fishing pike with shallow running stick baits and spinners.

Musky …Season opened last Saturday. Guides Bob Benson and Luke Ronnestand have been guiding Resort guests most of the week.  Both are averaging  at least one Musky per boat/ day caught and reporting seeing numbers of fish tight in close to shorelines of bays with vegetation.  Guests fishing Crappie and Largemouth in shallow weed areas are seeing a lot of Muskies chasing their smaller baits .  Even though the Musky Spawn should be over they are still present in the Spawning areas.  Today we had a resort guest catch and release a 43 inch musky on an  ultra-light rod using 6 lb test  and small tube jig.

We think now that water temps are coming up the next two weeks should be some great crappie and walleye fishing.



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