Kurt's Island Sport Shop

Early ice fishing season is upon us! Small lakes and protected bays reporting 3-4+” of good solid ice, prior to Mondays (11/29) snow....

Almost made it a whole year without a mistake! For the 6 or 8 people still reading this report this time of year, last week surface...

At the halfway point of November. Pond behind shop is ice covered. Typically, that means Lake Minocqua will have ice (not safe, just...

First full week of November under our belt and things on the water seem to be slowing down. With most lakes having surface temps of 46...

As October exits (one of the warmest most of us can remember), and we move into November, our weather seems to be getting back on track....

Cold temps have pushed many area lakes into the dreaded “Turn Over” period (insert spooky sound effects). Surface temps on most lakes...

Getting some of what we anglers have been asking for. Colder temps and wind have lake surface readings in the 50’s. So, what’s with the...

Feels like we’ve been in a “forever September” with afternoon temps in the 70’s holding lake surface temps running 63-67+ degrees....

Weather continues to be too nice! Cool nights can’t seem to combat the sunny, warm afternoons and get these water temps dropping. This...

A bit of a long, stretched out cool down. Water temps hanging in the low to mid 60’s despite some night time lows in the upper 30’s,...