Kurt's Island Sport Shop

I know what you all want to hear…but you’re not going to hear it from me…yet!   We went from looking out the shop to seeing a boat fishing on Lake Minocqua on Friday (11/28), to this side of the lake skimmed over by Saturday morning (11/29).   Lakes such as Big and Little Arbor Vitaes and the better parts of Squirrel and smaller have locked up, BUT (big but), we got more snow on Sunday (11/30) and wind.  Plenty cold enough (upper teens to low 20’s) but the wind and added inch

Temps reaching low 40’s and light winds have allowed for some angling of late.  A few Musky anglers and a couple Walleye anglers couldn’t resist the mild November weather for a last shot at the open water.   Not much feedback and it looks like it may be close to the end for boat angling.  Reports of surface temps of 35-40°, with some of the northern lakes in the Mercer and Presque Isle areas starting to ice up to the point of making access difficult.   Forecast have the 40’s

Cold enough last week to lock up the pond behind the shop for a day.  Temps all the way into the 50° mark ended that.  Surface temperature readings on lakes I visited read 37-45°.  A relatively mild week ahead (lows 20’s-highs in low 40’s) won’t cool temps very quickly.  It’s the temps during Thanksgiving week that we will see lakes start to lock up.   Not much to report on the Musky front.  Lots of signs of Cisco staging.  Not many anglers out and about and even fewer report

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First ground covering snow of the season the past couple days (11/9-11/10).  Enough to show some white, but not as much as our neighbors up in Mercer (7”) or our neighbors in Illinois received.  But enough to cool the waters even further.  With temps pre-snow and cold (down to 15° reports from Boulder Junction), what started out as surface temps of 45-49° has surely dropped. I’ll find out today as we venture out to fish Muskies!   With cold and lots of wind, not many anglers

November is here and its not just the calendar that says so, it looks and feels like November.  Wind and cold.  Lake surface temps ranging 45-49°.  Lots of lows in the 30’s forecasted with a possible day below freezing by week’s end.   Musky:  Good-Fair – As the water keeps cooling so does the action.  Bite windows are smaller, usually during the late morning/mid-afternoon time periods.  Suckers still the best option, though some action on slow moving gliders, rubber and tube

Rounding out the last weekend of October.  Weather above average for this time of year.  Lake temps holding steady from 47-51°.  Still some leaves on the trees with afternoon temps in mid to upper 40’s, pleasant out of the wind.  Most anglers’ attention on Musky, Walleye and Crappies at this time with lakes nearly all turned over, patterns settling down.   Musky:  Fair-Very Good – Mid-week off as some lakes still in midst of turn-over.  By weekend the only wall was the cloudl

If you weren’t here over the weekend, you missed the peak of the fall colors!  Yes, it was a might cold and windy some days, but just a beautiful time in the Northwoods!  Still plenty to see, but with wind and cold, maybe not for long.   Now to the fishing report!  Surface temps on lakes reading 55-59° over the weekend.  Reliable reports had some lakes turned over, but surface temps in the upper 50’s due to air temps up to 70° on Saturday (10/18).  Ice on the bird bath (10/20

Real Fall is here!  It’s in the air, the trees, and the water temps!  Finally seeing these surface temperatures in upper 50’s to lowest of 60’s.  The fall sucker bite is underway and despite all the high pressure and the full moon, fishing has picked up!  Not everyday and all the time (that’s fishing) some daily windows have been small, but still on a positive upswing!   Musky:  Good-Very Good – Definitely sucker fishing time!  With water temps in the 58-62° range, suckers on

Broke into October with more of the same from our warm September.  Air temps to mid-80’s pushing surface temperatures back up into the...