Minocqua Area Fishing Report
Pan fishing has been very weather dependent, very good reports on the nice warming days. When cold, rainy, and yes, sometimes snowy, the shallows cool and the fish move out.
Yellow Perch: Very Good – Most have spawned out by now and have started to recover and are hungry. Great time to find larger perch up shallow feeding on minnows, ½ crawlers below small floats or tipped behind light jigs of 1/32 oz.
Crappies: Very Good -Good – Up in shallows on warming days. Tossing tiny plastic tubes under small floats, sometimes dressed with waxie or spike. Small minnows as well as 1” twister tails also effective. This is not a spawning movement, these fish just up to get warmer water to help with egg production.
Bluegills: Good – Similarly moving shallow on warming days. Tiny jigs tipped with worms, waxies or Gulp waxies best.
Cold weather moving in late this week will slow otherwise good pan fishing. Lots of walleye spawning is done, some larger lakes still in the midst.
Kurt Justice
Kurt’s Island Sport Shop
www.kurtsislandsports.com
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