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With a sweltering heat hanging over the North-woods for the next several days, lake surface temps are coming in at 79 to 83° and climbing As a precaution, it’s advised to not Letters, target musky during this time. Those large fish expend a lot of energy during a hook and line battle, building up a lot of lactic acid, which in this hot oxygen depleted water takes longer to recover from. If you want to catch them in the future, best to layoff them this week! Blue gills; ver

Fully into the summer swing. Surface temps ranging 73 - 77 degrees, fronts moving in every few days due to heat and humidity. With the warm weather, boat traffic has increased with more skiers and jet skis on the lakes! Target early mornings or late evenings for some quieter time on the water. Largemouth bass: Very good - good Wide a variety of tactics working with the warm water. Wacky worms and Ned rigs and "urchin” baits are always a good bet, but with weather like this y

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

A beautiful week for fishing, a couple days of east winds shy of a perfect week. Overall, fishing was good and looking forward, no reason to think it won’t remain so with steady temps in the upper 70’s to low 80’s forecasted all week. Smallmouth Bass: Excellent-Very Good – Many bedding fish, some already done due to warm temps. Top-water action hot on Chug Bugs, Tiny Torpedoes. Urchin style baits have been the rage as well as Senko’s, Neds, Yum Breakin Shad and Flukes.

What a great Memorial Day Weekend! Lots of sun, warmth and good fishing! Anglers saw plenty of opportunities to pursue and catch their favorite fish. Weather made fishing comfortable for a change, HWY 51 was open, life in the Northwoods is Good! Rock Bass: Off the Charts! – When three families of visitors to the Northwoods from the Kentucky (Louisville) area, with seven kids ages 3 to 8 can catch and release over 250 Rock Bass in a day (in shifts) of fishing…enough said!

Our bouncing weather pattern finally bounced right for once giving anglers summer like temps Fri:Sat (80°) though winds were somewhat brutal. Sunday came back cold and windy, though less windy than Saturday. The sudden warmth brought fish activity and lots of good reports for those wearing sunscreen and fighting the wind! Walleye: Good-Great-Good – The hot weather created a hot bite as water temps climbed quickly into upper 50’s and anglers reported hard hits on swimbait

Not the easiest week weather wise. Cold and high winds have kept lake surface temperatures hovering in the upper 40’s to low 50’s. New weed growth has been limited along with all the goodies that come with! Northern Pike: Good – Cruising amongst any signs of new weed growth in 4-8’ of water. Slowly working a black chub on a 1/16-1/8 oz weedless jig has been best as Pike not overly aggressive. Three-inch paddle tail swimbaits or twister tails fished in same manner also