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FISHING WITH THE GUIDES
by George Langley
May 11, 2008 FISHING REPORT:

We're still on the weather roller coaster, with some great warm weather followed always by some cooler stuff. It hasn't affected the walleye spawning process at all as far as we can tell, but it certainly will have some "slowdown" effect on bass and musky. Water temps run from the mid 40's up into the low 50's at this point, which is quite cold for these dates. Well, it was a late Spring - so we should expect those cold temps. Water levels are pretty good on most lakes, but remain surprisingly low on some basin type lakes. It's hard to imagine at this point what it would take to get a few of these big low lakes up to their "normal" level. People have been slow this year, with the late ice, to get their piers out. It's seemed almost like mid April out there on some days recently. With the Memorial Day weekend coming, we can expect a great increase in boating traffic. By that weekend we think the bass will be starting and the musky, hopefully, will be finished. Unless we get some really warm weather between now & then you won't see many people swimming on that weekend!

Walleye action has been great. What a good opener with this late ice. We've had reports of both good numbers and good size on most lakes. As always, jigs with fathead minnows work best in the Spring, fished right along shoreline cover of any type. In most areas now the females have dropped back a little deeper to recover from the spawning process. This means a lot of the smaller males are going to be the fish caught in the next week or so. This is normal for the post spawn period, and usually happens right around opening day up here. As we've said, everything is later than normal this year. We had a great run on the Wisconsin River this year. People caught fish all along the river between the Rainbow and the Otter Rapids dam. There will still be some action there as the fish drop back down towards the flowage after the spawn.

Bass have really not even started their spawn yet. Late this year, as all the fish are. We've seen some nice females along shorelines, "scouting" the spawning areas. When they do this, they will hit minnow types of baits and you can catch some huge females. Just not in good numbers. In the absence of a cold spell (a dream this year?) we should get these bass up in the next week to two seeks for their spawn. This action resulting from the spawn will run well into June this year. Remember, catch and release only - and treat these fish with care. They are GREAT sport fish.

Pan fish action will turn to the crappie spawn soon. There has already been some action around shoreline trees and the like. This will provide great action for several weeks. The perch are done spawning and are dropping back towards deeper cover like emerging weeds and brushpiles. The bluegills are not ready to spawn yet, but some have been caught in the weeds.

All in all - it will be a good to great week if we get decent weather. We could use some (warm) rain.

Good luck & good fishin'!

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