June 3rd, 2025
***Fishing Report***
Walleye - Thanks to another heat wave walleyes are starting to behave a little more normal, for this time of the year. While minnows continue to rain supreme, the slip bobber and leech bite has finally started. Anglers have been pitching jigs and minnows, paddle tail and minnow baits. Basically anything that looks like a minnow, fished in 3-7 feet of the water. Reason for this is that minnows are looking to spawn now. Current areas are a good start, but large boulder flats and rocky shorelines have been the best areas to fish. In the evenings a slip bobber and a juicy leech has been the most effective. Right off the dock and back to shore or right off your campsite after dinner, has been where anglers are catching walleyes under a slip bobber. Gold, pink and firetiger have been the most popular colors this last week.
Smallmouth Bass- With water temps finally getting up in the 60’s, smallmouth bass have begun to move up on their beds looking to spawn. You anglers who fish love to fish with Ned rigs, now is your time. Other anglers have been having incredible fishing with pink mepps, wacky worms, topwater, jerk baits. Key areas to fish have been large rocky flats, pretty much anywhere on the lake, as long as it’s in 4-8 feet of water. Pink, green pumpkin, and orange craw.
Pike - While anglers fishing for pike cooled off this last week, anglers flashing pictures of big pike in the shop didn’t. Big pike remain in the shallow bays in 4-7 feet of water. Fishing with a large sucker remains the best way to go if you want a fish of a lifetime, but more and more we are hearing that spoons, spinners and buzzbaits are catching good numbers of pike with some big pike sprinkled in.
Panfish - Crappies have rapped up spawning on some lakes or just started on others. Either way anglers should be looking for crappies in the shallow pencil reeds where they find the sand bottoms they need to spawn on. Small hair jigs, tube jigs or crappie minnow, all fished under a bobber, have been very effective. Sunnies too can be found in these same areas by anglers. Small red worms, wax worms or small leeches, fished under a bobber, have been deadly for big sunnies.
Stream Trout - Rainbows have been very active this last week. Anglers fishing from shore have been reporting great fishing mainly during the evening hours, right off the dock. Small red and gold kastmasters have been super effective, but the tried and true nightcrawler, fished 5-10ft under a bobber has been effective too. Anglers fishing in a boat or canoe have been doing good trolling small minnow baits while trolling right along the shoreline. Brighter the bait, the better.
Lake Trout - Lake Trout reports continue to trickle in as more anglers start looking for lakers. Anglers have been finding lakers anywhere from 7-80ft of water. Anglers finding them shallow have been looking for smallies or walleyes when they hooked into a lake trout. Anglers targeting lakers have been trolling with down riggers in 40-80ft of water with large trolling spoons. Anglers fishing from a canoe have been trolling or jigging over deep water (same depth) with smaller spoons, tube jigs or bucktails. Wonderbread, blue jeans and bloody nose have been popular colors for lakers.
