St Germain 2015

It took quite a while to find a pattern for fishing in St. Germain this June.  I think the colder than usual start to summer had the fish more spread out than usual.

We ended up finding two different lakes that produced fish.  One lake produced numbers of eaters in about 6 ft of water, while the other produced trophy quality fish in about 25 ft of water.  The largest walleyes pictured were around 25" long and I consider them trophy sized for small inland lakes.

Most fish were caught on jig and crawler and as always we caught a mixed bag of walleye, pike, bass, bluegill, perch, rockbass, and even dogfish.  

Portage 2015

  Portage fishing was slower than usual this spring for walleye, bass, and bluegill, but the crappie bite was crazy.

We caught and released all of our crappies, but unfortunately a couple different boats had pulled in between the piers and were keeping limits of fish for each guy in the boat.  A little catch and release would be nice.

On May 16, the crappies were caught on small jigs tipped with a minnow.  Bass were on beds and bluegills were still pretty deep.  Walleye were definitely in the shallow flats.

On June 27, the crappie and bass had moved out, but the walleye were still up pretty shallow.  The walleye pictured here is the first one Norah ever reeled in.