Minocqua area fishing report 10.11.11Yellow Perch: Good-very Good. Surprisingly anglers working weeds and woods from 6-10 feet catching nice perch of 9-11 inches with a few jumbo perch of 12+ inches.
Walleyes: Good- Very Good. Flowage catches dropping off, but lakes picking up. Deep humps key, drifting Lindy Rigs or Ventricle Jigging big Fats, Chubs or Suckers.
Northern Pike: Good-Very Good. Action probably the best of the year. Mostly live bait, but spinners, spinnerbaits and twitch baits picking up nice pike up to 35 inches this week.
Bluegills: Good. Responding well to the warm up. Worms, 1/2 crawlers and even small minnows scoring big gills- 10 1/2 inch was the largest this week.
Largemouth Bass: Good. Wacky worms in the 6-12 foot weeds are deadly right now. Also 1/8 oz. jigs with 4 inch worms swam along the weed edges- in pockets are very effective.
Smallmouth Bass: Good. Anglers targeting "eyes" at the top of gravel humps and along rock/gravel fingers. Finding nice smallies (1 1/2-3lbs.) Taking 4-5 inch suckers and chubs in 18-28 feet of water.
Fall like weather is expected this week, drops in temp should increase the sucker bite for musky and keep the crappie and walleye bite good. Although the bite for bluegill and largemouth bass will probably slow. Musky suckers and chubs (redtails and blacktails) in short supply, call around for these baits as things may not get much better this fall.
Kurt Justice
Kurt's Island Sport Shop
www.kurtsislandsports.com
