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Happy 250th Birthday to the Greatest Country in the World! Nowhere else do we have the opportunity and freedom to enjoy fishing like here in the Good Ol’ U.S. of A.! Last week started a little off on 6/22 – 6/23. High pressure and some Mayfly hatches required early and late in the day fishing, jumping lakes, a little praying and a little cussin’! Largemouth Bass: Good-Very Good – Hard to ignore the Wacky Worm, Amoeba, Fuzzy Dice bite. Fishing heavy weeds has been best

Feels like I’m constantly retracting parts of my previous reports, just like the things I tell my wife, only this is in writing (dang!). Contrary to last week’s report, there were some Hexagenia (Mayfly) hatches on some of the flowages (especially the Turtle to the north). Must have started their two-day migration before the colder weather moved in (my excuse). More mild weather, some rain (nice, what’s the Northwoods without some more mosquitos), and a forecast moving our

UNCLE! Last week’s report I whined about the lack of rain, then we got it plus cooler, fall-like temps! Lake surface temps have fallen into the mid – upper 60’s, which will probably delay any Mayfly (hexagenia) hatches with not much forecasted for hot weather (80’s) until the 24th. Cool down seems to have affected some bites, moving fish out of the shallows (at least on the high-pressure days) and scattered fish until they adjust to the new “June” weather. Bluegill: Good

Beautiful week of weather, could have used some more rain, but… With the warmth, water temps climbing into mid-70’s already, pushing fish out of the late May patterns and into early summer a bit ahead of schedule. Expect bites from last week starting to shift this coming week. Smallmouth Bass: Very Good-Good – Anglers reporting fewer bedding fish than last week. Temps speeding up the spawn. Post spawn Smallies outside spawning areas hitting suspending jerks (Husky, X-Ra