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I recently had the chance to spend a long weekend fishing in the Longville area. With hot temps and calm weather, everything was good for water skiing and recreational boating. Not so good for fishing. The trip started on Upper Trelipe. We pulled into the launch area to see a welcome sight – no rigs [...]

Lotus Lake continued to produce quality bass, although the bite got tough at times. Bass were striking lures, but all were short bites. Anything with a flipper, tail, or extra long got nipped; rarely bit. That made a tube a good lure choice, thrown on the edges. Late in the day, a crankbait bite started [...]

It’s been nearly a year since I’ve been able to fish my favorite Wright county lakes. This time we hit a lake known only to a select few as the ‘cheater’ lake. My underboss and I were able to locate bunches of bass, and surprisingly, they weren’t off-shore. In fact many of the bass came [...]

Bass have moved deep and to off-shore structure. If you can find a weedbed (coontail or milfoil) deep – 15 – 20 feet of water, fish it. Bob Perkins, Fishwrench prostaff, recommends a jig worm. Although I caught some fish on those, the best production came from a craw tube using a 1/4oz tube jig. [...]

Fishing on this body of water never gets boring. It has everything a bass guy could ask for – rocks, weeds, wood and more rocks. And it has a 14-20 inch slot which virtually guarantees a shot at a trophy caliber fish anytime you wet a line (for you walleye guys, there are recent reports [...]

Find the frogs; find the fish. No, I don’t mean throw the frogs in your tackle box; I mean listen for frogs. If you can hear them croaking, you’re probably in a bassy spot. I didn’t find anything huge, but caught plenty of bass with @fishhawk to fill a livewell 4 dozen times. Most of our [...]

Fished the evening from about 5:00pm – 8:30pm. During that time, there were many 2-3.5lb largemouth to find, along with a few toothy pike that were hungry for lures. From the park access, fish the bay you launch in. Fatties are holding to lily and weed edges. Look for points with deep water get-aways on [...]

Quick report for the pond, I made it up there to fish Sat afternoon/evening. It was slow going for us but we managed to scratch together 8 walleyes(only 4 keepers) and 6 very nice perch(12+”). We started on Sherman’s flat on the west side, we marked fish but they didn’t want to cooperate so we [...]

With the move of this week’s tourney from Sarah, a “prefish for nothing” report is in order. Water levels at the lake are high. It makes for some fun times launching and loading the boat, and the whole lake is now a no-wake zone, but for us, it was definitely worth the effort. The day [...]