Minocqua Area Fishing Report Sept 1st, 2025

MINOCQUA AREA FISHING REPORT SEPT 1ST, 2025

Great weekend to end the summer! Partly sunny, not too windy and nice temps.

  Fishing improved as reports of fishing overall has picked up.

Smallmouth bass; good to very good

  Still finding small mouth at varying depths. Rock gravel humps using Ned rigs in 18 to 28 feet of water. Weed edges using spinners like a number three Mepps. (THANKS BEAN!)

Even reports from walleye anglers picking up smallest over mud flats of 25 feet of water using crawlers and chubs. Great numbers and some very impressive 19 to 21 inch fish caught this weekend!

  Largemouth bass; good very good

  Top water action returned as Whopper Ploppers and Jitterbugs are pulling in some nice bass. Lipless cranks and spinner baits over 8 to 10 foot cabbage. Wacky worming with weeedless hooks in the heavy cover when boat traffic picked up by mid morning, slowing down the chasers.

  Bluegill; very good

  Seem to be about 10 to 14 days late, but the flying ant hatch arrived this weekend to bring active gills to the top of the water column! Great for those flyrod / popper anglers. Worms waxes, a mini mites and other small plastic scoring just 2 to 3 foot down over good weeds.

  Crappie; good to very good

  Action heating up on Flowages around drowned wood of 12 to 16 feet. Working 1/16 ounce jigs tipped with 2 inch plastics or the good old slip float and medium fat head. On lakes, narrow leaf cabbage that are still green and also along Coontail edges of 12 to 16 feet holding crappies, Charlie bees and roadrunner is picking up active fish.

  Northern Pike; Good

  Working spinner baits, chatterbaits, and lipless cranks over cabbage picking up nice eaters of 22 to 27 inches this past week. Letting those over 30 inches go to grow to 40 inches!

  Walleye; good-fair

  Action improving those some days better than others. Mud flats of 24 to 27 feet outside gravel humps or outside deep weed edge is best. Red tails and nightcrawlers on 1/8th -quarter ounce jigs dragged along the bottom. As water cools which it looks like it will the rest of the week this should solidify.

  Musky; good to fair

  Fishing outside boat traffic times, early and late with bucktails and fast retrieve swimbaits up over shallow weeds best. Some good reports on the top water action at dusk.

  Yellow perch;

  With gills and crappies improving, fewer angler targeting perch. Most perch catches coming out along 14 to 18 foot mud flats on half a night crawler or a Beaver tail.

  Between cool mornings and mild, yet warm afternoons, surface temps have been averaging about 68 to 70° for the most part. With forecast highs from Wednesday 9/3 through Sunday 9/7 not breaking 60° and lows from the upper 30s to mid 40s expect surface temps to drop. That should bode well once temperatures hit low 60s to get a good feed going. It’s just those five days may be a bit trying.

Photo of the week:

Jeff and Nini Hillebrand ofLaQuinta, California, with a nice stringer of walleye!

Kristen the King Killer with her first ever Musky!

Lauren Johnson with a 28 3/4" walleye!