Mississippi River Pool 2 Crappie Report, 10/25/09
When I think Pool-2 of the Mississippi River I think big walleyes and low boat traffic, not slab crappies. While our walleye bite this morning yielded good numbers of fish, size wasn’t quite what we were looking for. With that, our focus shifted from big walleyes to anything that would bite, w...
Even more NE/KS fishing
The weather sure has been up and down in our region, but the fish proved that they were still aggressive in getting easy lunches this past Monday and Tuesday. Monday found my Dad and I in the canal once again looking for fish. We tried our trolling tricks again since water was moving through the...
Lake Menomin Crappie Report, 10-19-09
Not having been out on Lake Menomin for over a week, I wasn’t sure how far along the bite was. My last trip out was a complete flop and the motivation today was simply this beautiful weather. As we all know, weather wise, it’s been a weird year and has made for a very unpredictable bite, Menom...
Lake Wisconsin early Fall Crappies & Walleyes
The screwy weather we had in September definitely had an effect on fishing here on Lake Wisconsin. Overly warm weather kept the crappies from setting up in there usual fall patterns and my fall fishing success suffered because of it. We did get on some crappies, but nothing like a normal Septemb...
Lake Menomin Crappie Report, 9-30-09
Finally some cold weather! And it’s about darn time With the drastic change in air temps and the water temp down 6-8 degrees from just days prior, I wasn’t sure what kind of bite to expect when hitting the water this afternoon. Not having been out much since returning from Rainy Lake, I didn...
Pool 7 Panfish Report 09.12.09
For as much as I love summer, I sure love the months of September and October for fishing on the river. The foliage colors change in tandem with the annual transitions of all the fish on the river. All the spots I drove by turning my nose up to them throughout the summer months, are now at the c...
Mississippi River Pool 5 Multispieces Fishing
The Mississippi River backwaters provide a ton of fishing opportunities along with a quiet relaxing place to fish. Some of the best multispices fishing you could ever ask for is found there. Mike Smith had found a couple new spots to fish on Pool 5 while I was laid up from my knee surgery and he...
Lake Menomin Multispecies report 9-10-09
The bite on Lake Menomin is finally starting to become more consistent, not only for Panfish, but Walleye as well. These cool nights are finally starting to drop the surface temp (69-71degrees last night) and I would expect the lake to turn here in the next few weeks, meanwhile waiting for the ...
Lake Zumbro Saturday AM Bluegills 9-5-09
Its a Saturday morning, even a Holiday weekend, You have a bad case of fishin pox, what do you do? You hit Lake Zumbro and catch your fish and are off the water before all the pleasure boats get there. The plan was working great. I haven't been on the water for atleast two months due to a kn...
Pool 8 Multi Species Report 9/5/09
With a busy weekend in the making and only half a day to fish Mike and I were having a hard time making up our minds what fish to target Saturday morning. Friday night the decision was made, bring along a little of everything and we will decide once we get to the landing Early morning we were gr...
Pool 7 Panfish Report. Bluegills Plump & Primed!
About this time of the year, I'm reminded of last year's discussions with Jami Ritter who wanted to come down to 7 hoping to find some Walleyes for an upcoming FLW tourney. I recall his persistence with the wingdam bite and his desire to try and pull a few Walleyes using livebait. I explained to...
Mississippi River Pool 8 Crappie Report
Heading out early in the morning trying to beat the storm front closing in, the truck was loaded with a bucket of minnows and a assortment of jigs. A good friend told me the crappies had disappeared from a favorite back water lake, what the heck….I just had to scope it out for myself
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Lake Zumbro SE Mn Panfish Report
If you are looking for some panfish action and love fishing in a boat then Lake Zumbro is the place to be. The first pic is my oldest grandaughter Brianna doing what she loves to do-catch fish. We first started off trolling a Mini-Mite jig with a waxie added for taste and smell and caught a...
Southern WI Bass, and panfish report
Fishing remained very solid this week with a client boating the biggest bass of the year so far just shy of 7 lbs spawned out a giant largies that I could easily put my hand into it's mouth, what a site to see! Again swimming rock stalker jigs has been fantastic for these big brutes and they ar...
Cass Lake Area Panfish Report
After an already incredible two-day trip for smallies, eyes, and pike, a few friends and I decided to extend our stay a bit. After literally being sick of landing eyes from Upper Red, we decided to test our skills on a new lake that none of us had ever fished. Furthermore, we thought it would ...
