Minocqua Area Fishing Report July 27, 26

Jul 27
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Minocqua Fishing Report July 27th, 2026

Weather cool enough to get our local surface temps back down to the 72 to 73° mark last week. Enough for some musky angling. But warm weather has temps back into the 77 to 78° mark as of today. Now a cool down on Friday may ease some of the temps, but forecast has most days back into the mid 80s this week and next.

Largemouth bass; Very good

Scourge of the Northwoods to some anglers, but keeping the rods bending! Top water action still ‘tops’ (see how I did that)? for early morning and late in the day. Pre-rigged plastic worms, wacky worms, amoeba/silencer/ uni thingamabobs still the rage. Spinner baits, chatter baits, square billed cranks, you name it, they want to try to eat it and I get it!

Bluegill; good to very good

Hovering around your favorite cabbage, patch, docks, boathouse, swim rafts, even down along deep Coontail edges. If they can get it in their tiny little mouth, they’ll grab it.

Smallmouth bass; good to very good

Reports of some very nice bass this week in the 17 to 21 1/2 inch range on Ned rigs and drop shot rigs over rocks, sand grass, Flats and cribs of 16 to 28 feet.

Crappie; Good-VeryGood

Anglers casting small bladed grub combos through top 2 feet of tall, narrow leaf cabbage scoring good catches of 10 to 12 inch fish with some slabs of 15 inches this past week. Crappie minnows under small floats won’t be passed up either!

Northern Pike; good

Action picked up with a cooler water. Spinners, chatters, and under spins with plastic swim tails working best.

Yellow perch; good

Found scattered amongst 8 to 12 foot cabbage edges taking half inch crawlers or medium fat heads. One group reporting success on mini 1 1/2”Ned worm rigs.

Walleye ;fair to good

Depending on the source, most bites, tough, but a few anglers picking up suspended fish On crawler harness rigs trolled and (remember one line per person not more than three lines trolled per boat) 20 to 24 feet down over 24 to 32 foot of water

Musky; fair

Not a lot of reports as anglers just starting to target. Buck tails best over weeds but mostly sub 36 inch fish being caught.

With surface temps likely to remain high upper 70s to low 80s top water. Bass action should remain hot! Pan fishing should stay steady with best times around any cloud cover. This is the middle of the summer season patterns should remain steady. They’ll probably best during low light periods.

If you can find leeches, pick them up if they look healthy. The heat has brought about an early end to leech season, sadly!

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