Fishing has been fantastic for the whole month of June. I’ve got very few complaints with how well the fish have been biting. Water temperatures are rising very significantly and fish are moving out deeper.
Small mouth are post spawn and out of the shut down! Great news for the guys that want to target bass. Look for them on the weed edges or up shallow next to the rocks. They will smack almost anything. Top water has been a great option as well. Don’t be afraid to put a worm under a slip bobber, that has been a great option and if you’ve got kids in the boat its a blast for them to watch bobbers get sucked down.
If you like big pike! Recently i was asked to fish for big pike so we gave her a shot. Burning buck tails over the weed edges up in the shallow bays has been very productive. The Classic Vibrax spinner in a perch color pattern probably caught the most fish. We netted many fish in the 35-38″ range.
Walleyes have been back on the classic jig and a minnow bite near deep transitions. Find areas with deep drop-offs that come up to shallow rock and gravel. Target them with a jig and a minnow and they have been very willing to bite. This tactic has been producing some fantastic eating size fish in the 15-18″ range. Slip bobbers with a minnow under them have produced some larger fish around 24-25″ set around 12 FOW. Pulling cranks can be productive if you want to cover some more water, stay along the deeper edges.
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