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Kurt’s Island Sports Minocqua Area Fishing Report

Despite cooler temps this week, we seem to be in an early summer mode. Water temps have settled into the mid 60's range. Enough warmth seems to be working its way down to help push some bug hatches as a couple species of dragon flies, some types of midge and what looks like march brown mayflies have hatched. The thing to keep an eye out for is the Hexagemia hatch, needs to warm up some....but its coming!

Largemouth Bass: Very Good- Excellent. Largemouth found in a variety of stages. Pre-spawn, spawn and (if one source is correct) post spawn. Top water action has held despite cooler temps. Plastic frogs, Jitterbugs and Skitter Pops tops. Wacky worms (Yum Dingers, Senkos and Jackals) hammering fish in shallow on unweighted hooks. Largemouth guarding beds scooping up Lizards, tubes and creature baits. Lots of bass measuring 16-19" with a few 20"+ showing up.

Walleyes: Good-Very Good. Fresh weeds holding walleyes in 5-9' depths during overcast days and after dark. Daytime bite on 1/16oz. jigs tipped with large fatheads, Dace or large leeches. At dusk or after dark, casting shallow running stickbaits (Rapala Scatter Minnows, Rattlin Rouges) still catching larger 20"+ walleyes.

Smallmouth Bass: Good. Action falling off a bit as spawn finishing and fish moving off to recooperate. Tube jigs fished in 8-14' best. Also crawl rubber craws or creature baits on stand up jigs to entice slow biters.

Bluegills: Good. A few scattered reports of bedding fish, but we really need to see water warm a bit more. Small wet flies and rubber spiders behind a casting float (or on a flyrod for those who know how) is accounting for a lot of fish. Small leeches tops for live bait anglers.

ALERT!!!! SORRY! But thunderbugs won't be available this season.

Northern Pike: Good. Chubs and suckers on jigs or under floats. Spoons such as Daredevils and Johnson Silver Minnows and #3 Mepps working well.

Crappie: Good. Moving out a little deeper. Warmer temps may bring fish in as minnows and young of year fry move in. Tiny tinsel, plastic and hair jigs tipped with waxies or small minnows in 6-10' weeds best.

Yellow Perch: Good / Fair. Not a lot of reports. Best to use  medium fats in 6-9' sparse weed flats.

Musky: Fair. Not many reports at our location. Anglers spotting lookers (follows), and mid 30" fish but not much for catches.

Fishing overall good, though daily weather patterns can cause poor "days" (high pressure). With weeds still a bit behind schedule, finding green standing weeds helps to locate fish till everything greens up.

Thanks,

Kurt

Kurt’s Island Sports

islandsports@frontier.com