Are you tired of catching little fish? Now is a great time of year to pick up a dozen shiners, chubs, or suckers and drag them along the deep weed edges. For muskies, you would need some 12" suckers or larger, but for bass, pike, and walleyes, 5-6" bait works great.
The bass pictured here were caught on Okauchee Lake with suckers.
Carly's northern pike was caught casting and slowly retrieving a 6" sucker in Portage.
The walleye pictured is one of the first walleyes I have caught on Lac LaBelle in Oconomowoc. I caught 4 more like it up to 17" using a 5" chub in 9 feet of water.
The bluegill pictured was caught under a pontoon boat in Portage in about 10' of water. The gills on the lake I was fishing seem to have moved out of their deep water summer haunts, and back to break lines. This one is probably the biggest gill I have ever caught. It is 9.75" on the tape measure and was thicker across the back than any bluegill I have seen.
Anyway, this is it for summertime fishing. I have never been much good at fall time fishing, but I am hoping to turn that around this year.
