2009 Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for week 5-24-09

Lac Vieux Desert – Water temperature was from 58 – 65 with the warmest water in Thunder Bay. The weed growth is excellent and you can run all your baits right over the top of them right now, this will only last another week or two. Best baits were small inline spinners and small jerk baits. Down by the dam and the reed on the west shore were the two best places to see fish. The crappie fishermen were doing real good fishing the reeds on west shore and that was were the muskies were. Bright color baits seem to work the best. We also move fish in the trough in Rice bay. I would say by the first week of June this lake will be on fire.

North & South Twin – Water temperature 57- 62 and not much different between the two lakes. Most of our action came on South Twin in front of the girl camp 5'-7' of water again small spinners work the best but also the phantom did move a lot of fish but no takers on this. We used more natural colors here, anything in walleye color is great. The walleyes were still biting in the same areas. For two days of fishing we lost two fish (one on crane & one on Invader), had four other hits ( 1 bulldawg, 2 on spinners, 1 on jake) and had 13 other follows. But we probably seen over 30 fish on North the fish were in the shallows sunny themselves, and that is all they had on their mind, we didn't get any to follow the ones we seen, most on the follows came from the 5'- 7' water. It was mix on North Twin between the follows from rock and weeds with all the follows on South coming from the weeds.

Sand Lake – We fished this from 7am – 10:30am on Monday and had 7 follows with two real nice mid 40 fish. The walleye color phantom with white tale had 3 of these follows, 1 on a jerk bait and 3 on spinners with yellow blades. Water temperature was 59-64 . Three of the fish came in first 15 minutes and two of these were the nicer ones the were in 5' of water right off a underwater point right in the cabbage. This was off the south shore, we did see two other fish here on weed edges, we seen nothing in middle of the weeds all fish came from the inside weed edge or outside weed edges, the larger fish were all on the inside edges. Again this lake needs to warm up about another 5 degrees and then look out these lookers will be hitters.

North Twin -5/6/09

The walleye fishing on Twin has been very good with a lot of keepers in the 15”-18” size, great for the frying pan. I found that the two best areas for the larger fish have been the pocket inside of the reeds and right out front of the Lakota boat landing in about 9' of water casting in towards the new weed growth. Set up two rods with Slip bobbers with large fathead's set 6” -12” off bottom, and then cast a 1/16 oz. jig tip with a fathead and slow bring it back to the boat. Seems that the larger fish have been coming with the jig and minnow combo. It's not hard to catch a limit but now days when the limit is only two you it takes longer moving to another lake to catch the rest of your daily quota.

Pewaukee Lake 5/14/09

The water temp on the West side was 60 to 65 degrees with the warmer water being on the South side of the lake. We went out at 5pm and fished till 9pm and ended up with 5 follows (mostly on the north shore east of condo's) 2 muskies in the boat one 35.25” on north shore, 36.5” off just east of Rocky Point on East side right before the little rock bar and a bonus 27.5” walleye that hit off Rocky Point on a figure 8, the 35.25” also was taken on a figure 8. Only one fish was seen on blades rest were on small jerk and glide baits moving real slow. Milwaukee Muskie Inc. had their outing(meeting) here today and ran a little tournament until 9 with a meal after at Smokey's so we stop in to see how the rest did and we ended up catching the largest two fish for the day and only heard of one other caught a 34”. It seemed like the West side of the lake was better then East side, with the strong winds we had last couple of days the East end was pretty muddy and that is why we stayed on the west end and it paid off for us.

Also for more information and if you want to see the World Record tiger musky stop in by the Minnow Bucket they will give you the latest information on area lakes. Located on highway E and West Shore Drive.

Don't forget catch & release is the future and if you are lucky enough to catch a fish that you want mounted please see in Northern Wisconsin Rick Lax Reproductions in Conover 715-547-3710 in Southern Wisconsin Fishn'Fever in Okauchee 262-569-7491. They both do a great job on reproductions just make sure to take good pictures and measurements of your fish.

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