8/31/22

Perch fishing is starting to pickup from shore. These cooler nights have taken a few degrees of the lake and fish are moving into traditional fall patterns. I always say that starting labor day weekend perch fishing starts to heat up. Lake traffic was basically non existent over the weekend, there was very few boats out and about across the lake. All the shore fishing piers are producing a decent amount of keeper perch around the 10-11″ range. You will have to sort through some smaller fish but its very easy to get a nice mess of fish. Some walleyes have been caught in the early mornings and late afternoon from shore as well. Boats are traveling all around the lake, some guys are pulling spinners, others are pulling cranks. They are having mixed success across the board. The jigging rap bite near the bridges seems to be pretty slow as well. Labor day weekend will mark the last busy weekend on the lake. Weather is looking favorable this weekend so plan accordingly and make sure to fish those early mornings and late afternoons, when the lake is less busy. I was asked about fishing muskies on the lake and there has not been much talk of them on the lake. The tail race at Baldhill Dam has had a very strong muskie bite on topwater baits. There are even some very nice pike being caught on top water baits as well. May be worth the trip if you’re looking to catch a different type of fish.