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.
