|
|
Posts: 32888
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | How was the bite over the weekend? Who's off today and tomorrow? |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1418
Location: Brighton CO. | Full moon and 91 degrees today, hopefully mom wants to go for a ride up to the foothills. Hot weather and full moon of July = big Muskies in these parts. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 160
| 96 degrees and muggy here today. I'll be hibernating in my air conditioned basement until more tolerable weather arrives. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 291
Location: Minneapolis | I was at Witch Bay Monday through Saturday. Our group of six got 8 muskies. 45, 44.5, 44, 43, 41, 40, 37, and 36. Lost a couple more. We caught a couple dozen pike 32-40". Most were on deep shelves next to shore or island points. We would hold the boat on 20-30 fow and cast into 10-20 fow.
Rubber and jerkbaits were the best. Blades were nearly useless.
The pattern was shifting by the end of the week. The pike were leaving as the water warmed and muskie contacts dropped. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20223
Location: oswego, il | I Put 3 in the boat Saturday morning most activity has been around moon underfoot. Lost a really nice one yesterday at the boat. The fish have shown a preference for gliders they want that dart and hang. The heat is definitely playing a factor.. it's also disappointing to see the migration of the pleasure boaters to the area I fish, something I didn't see 10 years ago. Had another lake I wanted to fish that 15 years ago I would have been the only boat and the ramp was full parked in the grass. Probably only coming up in September to November from now on.
Edited by ToddM 7/4/2023 6:06 AM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 2270
Location: SE, WI. | Boated 5 skis Saturday, Sunday. Nothing over 45”. 2 short outings!
Once again, lakes are a Mess in SE, WI. You have a choice to fish during the day, and bounce like a Yo-Yo, or fish at night, and deal with the Floaters. Weed islands are anywhere from 5 gallon size, to 20-30 feet wide. Hard to see weeds/ floaters night fishing! Wake boarders just trashing lakes. And very little to no wind, or Rainy days to give the fisherman some advantages. Took in 20 gallons of water yesterday from wakes being thrown. Thank God for bilge pumps! Sorry for the venting, but really need to get out of dodge;( ……. Canada can’t come soon enough! JD
Edited by jdsplasher 7/4/2023 6:50 AM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1418
Location: Brighton CO. | Never made it out mom didn't want to deal with the crowds and I looked in my wallet and fishing license was gone now I have to tear the house a part to find my license and then put patio furniture under the deck, more bad storms and hail today. We have had over 13 inches of rain in May and June. Everything is green and the weeds well are growing like weeds. And only two days over 90 all year. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 160
| jdsplasher - 7/4/2023 6:39 AM
Boated 5 skis Saturday, Sunday. Nothing over 45”. 2 short outings!
Once again, lakes are a Mess in SE, WI. You have a choice to fish during the day, and bounce like a Yo-Yo, or fish at night, and deal with the Floaters. Weed islands are anywhere from 5 gallon size, to 20-30 feet wide. Hard to see weeds/ floaters night fishing! Wake boarders just trashing lakes. And very little to no wind, or Rainy days to give the fisherman some advantages. Took in 20 gallons of water yesterday from wakes being thrown. Thank God for bilge pumps! Sorry for the venting, but really need to get out of dodge;( ……. Canada can’t come soon enough! JD
I hear ya. Recreational boaters are in full force when the sun is out on a nice day. A rainy day on the weekend is a blessing for people like me. Fishing is better and there's very few people on the water. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 32888
Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We fished Minocqua over the holiday getting there around 6:30 AM. By 9 the wash machine had started. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2270
Location: SE, WI. | sworrall - 7/5/2023 5:30 PM We fished Minocqua over the holiday getting there around 6:30 AM. By 9 the wash machine had started. Hopefully you brought the Tide  In my parts, U need to start about 3 am. They start barefootin here about 6-6;30 am;(
Edited by jdsplasher 7/5/2023 7:12 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 398
Location: SW Ohio | Not WI but SW OH. Took the week off from work (3 days vacation for 9 days off). Planned on fishing more but weather and wife's plans knocked that down some. Weather has been hot, humid and, at times, very wet. The past couple years, this week has done me well.
Sunday, missed two on cranks on the 8 fishing a stumpy area. They like to torpedo from under the boat. Monday, hooked three, got one in the net. Lost the biggest and smallest. All on #8 blades - black body and yellow blades.
Had a lot of rain Tues and Weds night. Thurs the same area was high and muddy. Not a fish to be found...graph looked like a desert where two days before they showed up well. More rain for tomorrow but will get out Sunday if I can. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 111
| South Dakota's glacial lakes are notoriously shallow, and some of them are just flooded sloughs. Getting boats in on some of them is treachorous. Musky bite near Sioux Falls was decent but recently slowed on one lake, but the other two are dead. Focusing mostly on bass and eyes until fall approaches or we get a nice stretch of decent temps.
Edited by bloatlord 7/7/2023 2:26 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 122
Location: Roscoe IL | jdsplasher - 7/5/2023 7:08 PM
sworrall - 7/5/2023 5:30 PM We fished Minocqua over the holiday getting there around 6:30 AM. By 9 the wash machine had started. Hopefully you brought the Tide In my parts, U need to start about 3 am. They start barefootin here about 6-6;30 am;(
that sound about right, i primarily fish madison, and there will be someone on a ski boat at sunruse going right down the inside weed edge/first break dang near every flat morning. |
|
| |
