Forum: Wisconsin, IA, N/S Dakota, Canada

I met my dad at Brushy Sunday afternoon in hopes of chasing some crappies. We only picked up a few small crappies but the Largemouth were really active. They were hitting the bobber and minnow all day long no matter where we tried. We did fish mostly 2-7' while were looking for crappies but even...

Got out this morning on a small local lake from 5:30-11:00 targeting bass. It was cooler early but warmed up pretty quick, water temps was 66 degrees. Did not see one nice bass up shallow they are for sure post spawn now, there were some gills starting to move up making nests crappies were holding...

If you go to www.anglersproshop.ca you can have your fishing liscences done online. That way when you get up here all you have to do is stop in and pick them up. Give it a shot a see how it works for you.

fished a for about an hour today, only caught 2, on the fly, a 6" gill, and an 8" bass, nice to get out but the pond is just about done for the season only found one spot where the moss hasn't grown in yet. Water was still clear, but spotted another pond a little furth south I may have to try. I...

Weather was a bit cooler this past week, with a fair amount of rain and plenty of wind. The result is the lake temps dropped with LOTW reported in low to mid 50's and Kakagi near 50. The hardy fishing groups reported the fish were biting very well, execpt the Crappies have not moved in yet. One...

went up with a few guys from my church Sat. morn to take kids fishing My son caught a nice black and a white crappie, he had a blast, a friend of ours son who I took as well, caught a channel cat and a small bass. was a good trip had quite a few kids there. they had fun as well.

I am thinking about goign to Bayfield WI for their Apple Fest in early Oct anyone been there for this ? suggestions ?

A common way to locate walleye on opening day is ofcourse trolling. I like to use walleye divers, hot & Tots, rapella's. You need to ensure that your lure is running the depth you desire. Troll at the mouth of bays, thru channels and across island points. A color pattern will be determined by day...

I had a day out of the office yesterday to go do some volunteer activities. They let us out early so I figured I should get in a little fishing. Hooper Pond is a small manmade lake south of Indianola that I used to fish alot in college. Due to the rain the water was up and pretty muddy but I...

From May 19th...... "A cold front moved in last night along with winds out of the North East. Temps have dropped from near 70's to 40's much of today. LOTW suface temps were reported near 60 this past week with Kakagi (Crow) staying closer to 50. Only one brave boat decided to go after the...

Anybody that lives in North East Iowa, or Eastern Iowa for that matter. I am currently starting a Iowa Bass Federation chapter with the Cabela's store on the Mississippi. I am trying to find anybody that would be interested in joining our club let me know, and I can get you information or...

"Water surface temps on Crow are in the low 50's. 55 at the dock this afternoon. Back bays are a bit warmer with fish moving in and out of the back bays. Lakers seem to be biting best in 20-40 ft range, graphing them as deep as 80' on the bright days. Trolling with Rapalas and cowbell rigs,...

The smallmouth will be in the shallows and on the nests in Lake Of The Woods in early June. You can catch a good number of bass working over logs and rocks along shorelines with a drop off depth of 14'- 25'. A little later on they can be found more prominently in shallower bays and sand beaches. ...

We hit the river tonight and got zipped......again. I have to say its higher than I've ever seen at our spot!! The dam usually drops about 6 foot but tonight it looked like a big ripple and maybe dropped 2 foot. If I didn't know better I would have thought it was rappids!! High point of the evening...

Our family of 8 stayed at Crawfords Resort up on Crow Lake this weekend. Crow Lake is located about 70 miles north of I'Falls just past the town of Nestor Falls. Despite the resort being sold just two days prior to us arriving everything went well thanks to the new owners Kevin and Jean Nelson. ...

Finally was able to get out for a few hours after work today, what a nice night to be out, I fished a small local lake and hooked up with about a 18" bass right by the ramp but threw the hook on a jump, then a saw a huge sow crusing along a break but It spooked before I could back off. I ended up...

Well, as you can imagine it was just as windy up there as down here. I didn't even think about going out in the boat. I hit a couple river spots where I usually catch some eyes at midnight but got zipped- the water is just so darn low everywhere. I trout fished on sat. morning and kept 4 brooke...

Had a good day on Clear Lake Saturday, fishing our 2nd CIA (Central Iowa Anglers) Trophy outing. It sure was WINDY, but the little old fish-hawk managed to do ok fighting it. Put a lot of walleyes in the boat and found some active larger fish. Dad gilled a couple so we decided to keep our limit...

I did pretty bad this weekend:( Dad and I fished Spirit Lake from midnight to 9:00 am Saturday and picked up 3 'eyes. High, east winds and some nice fog/mist in the air kept us glued to the east side of the lake most of the night. We picked up our 3 fish on spinners and shiners in 9 FOW. We had...

Anyone going next door for opener this w/e? I know there will be plenty of us. I almost stayed here just to avoid traffic but I can't miss my first opener. I will avoid the lakes except a couple small lakes for panfish. Opener I usually hit some river spots on foot for walleye at midnight, then...

Anyone have an educated guess on when the ice may start going out up along the boarder and into Canada? From what I hear there is still almost 3' of ice up there. Not looking good for our ice out laker trip the first weekend of May. Might have to rescedule or cancel it this year. :( Magic

Got back form Lake Traverse on Sunday night, been busy putting stuff away so havnt been able to post a report. We ended up with 10 walleyes on the weekend. Most came on jigs tipped with leeches, a couple on bobbers with a leech, and a couple more on an orange lindy rig with a crawler. The best jig...

Havent posted a report in a while....primarily because I havent done much fishing recently (booooo!!!). Anyway, was able to get out a couple of times this past weekend and here is my report. Last friday I had the day off to pre-fish for an outing/event/tourney that my multispecies fishing club...

Just a few more days to the Walleye & Bass opener on the Iowa Great Lakes. I spent the weekend juicing batteries and making sure the motors would go. Everything seems ready to roll so now I have to sit and wait, at least I have Friday off so I can go home and tinker a little more. Maybe go up early...

Has anyone been fishing Spirit Lake yet? If so what did you catch and what did you use? :chin:

Here are some of my hard water fishing statistics from the 2006/2007 ice fishing season. Just as with those statistic entries from previous years, they are listed in fish for "all" (anyone I was fishing with plus myself at the time) and "Eric only," (which is just those fish caught by me, minus the...

Hit a couple little lakes sunday in WI south of Luck. What a great day to be on the water! Well, except for my white arms that are now fire red.:) We found the nicer bluegills along some cat tails (out about 15 feet) along with some crappies. The wind was blowing hard into the bank on the south...

I have been down to the Rainy River a few times the in the past 2 weeks fishing sturgeon. I think I'm totally hooked now. I caught alot of nice fish in other species but noe even compare to the fight that a sturgeon give you. Depending on the curent it is at least 15 minutes to land a 45"er. The...

Dan's post about bathymetric maps got me thinking about a Central Iowa Anglers meeting I had been to a couple months ago. These maps can be very informative and the Iowa DNR is working hard to get these out to those of us in the Hawkeye state. Its a new look at alot of our lakes and I hope this...

STEELHEAD- Got out this w/e for a morning and only caught one small rainbow up on the Brule. I didn't see too many fish roll either and the water was too dark to sight fish at all. TROUT- Did manage to catch and release some nice brooke trout on a spring hole and did poorly on browns on a...