

An occasional coho and pink salmon were also taken. Largemouth bass fishing is good one day, not so good the next.Ĭlick here for the Wisconsin DNR weekly report.įishing was really great this week. Crappies also started to group up in the basin and anglers are catching them jigging vertically with jig and minnow combinations. Fishing is best early and late in the day. Dickenson and Blackbird Points are also holding both species of bass.įox Lake – Troll crankbaits through the basin of the lake for walleye. Northern pike are active can be located near the thermocline in 30 to 35 feet of water. Try the deep cribs in 22 feet of water just outside Dartmouth Bay, the weed edge which parallels the north shore line, and both the Heidel Bar and Monument Shoal. Fishing with tubes, drop shot rigs, shaky head rigs and umbrella rigs are all working. A variety of techniques are working for catching bass. Attentive anglers have made use of inflows and outflows after rains on ponds and lakes for years.īig Green Lake – We are in our summer pattern on Gig Green and both largemouth bass and smallmouth bass our out on the deeper weed edges. That’s quite a good description of an area to watch after weather like we had over the weekend. it resembled the tail-out of a trout stream with browns and brookies waiting for floating insects to funnel to them. Right where the lake narrows and the current begins to accelerate, fish-carp, bluegills and a few big bass-were stacked up waiting for the conveyor belt to bring them a meal. It varies from barely moving in low water to a strong current when the water is high (I stay away from that corner of the lake when ice fishing because of the possibility of the current weakening the ice). One of the lakes I looked at but didn’t fish has an outflow into a short narrow stream. It was a mix of small bass and some big bluegills and sunfish. I didn’t hook every fish that hit of course, but it was a rare cast that didn’t draw a strike. The fish sure seemed to like the influx of water: they wouldn’t leave a foam hopper alone. I checked out a few forest preserve lakes on Sunday after the rains finally ended.
