walleyemaxx
10-15-2010, 10:04 AM
Hi everyone,
Here's our tax dollars at work.
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NORTHERN REGION
Park Falls DNR Service Center area
Upper Chippewa Basin fisheries report (Price, Rusk, Sawyer Taylor and inland Ashland and Iron counties) - The beautiful Indian Summer weather, coupled with some great fall colors, has made for some excellent fishing conditions in the last week. However, the fish have not been real cooperative and overall success could only be considered fair.
The main species of interest have been musky and walleye, with musky continuing to provide the best fall action. With the nice weather, water temperatures are holding in the mid to upper 50s, and musky anglers have been seeing increased action on live suckers and less activity on artificial baits. The warm and sunny days have produced some hits on stick baits and bulldawgs, but a big old sucker hung 5 feet below a bobber and row-trolled along the shallow/deep break has produced the best catches lately. Most of the musky that have been landed have been in the 34 to 42-inch size, but fish up to 48 inches have also been reported.
Walleye success continues to be very erratic, with the nice weather bringing out more anglers to try their luck on the fall bite. Live minnows in a medium to large size have been the key, either on a slip bobber or on a jig. The best action has been near dark, with the minnows fished along the weed edges, sand/gravel shores and near bottom breaks. In addition, crank baits casted along shore in the low light hours have also produced a few decent catches.
Bass anglers have basically put away their boats for the year -- though a warm, sunny day can produce some good action for largemouth for the die-hard bass anglers. Panfish action has been fair, with some nice crappie, bluegill, and perch still being found around any green weeds and near mid-depth cover.
Get out and enjoy the outdoors everyone.
Walleyemaxx
Here's our tax dollars at work.
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NORTHERN REGION
Park Falls DNR Service Center area
Upper Chippewa Basin fisheries report (Price, Rusk, Sawyer Taylor and inland Ashland and Iron counties) - The beautiful Indian Summer weather, coupled with some great fall colors, has made for some excellent fishing conditions in the last week. However, the fish have not been real cooperative and overall success could only be considered fair.
The main species of interest have been musky and walleye, with musky continuing to provide the best fall action. With the nice weather, water temperatures are holding in the mid to upper 50s, and musky anglers have been seeing increased action on live suckers and less activity on artificial baits. The warm and sunny days have produced some hits on stick baits and bulldawgs, but a big old sucker hung 5 feet below a bobber and row-trolled along the shallow/deep break has produced the best catches lately. Most of the musky that have been landed have been in the 34 to 42-inch size, but fish up to 48 inches have also been reported.
Walleye success continues to be very erratic, with the nice weather bringing out more anglers to try their luck on the fall bite. Live minnows in a medium to large size have been the key, either on a slip bobber or on a jig. The best action has been near dark, with the minnows fished along the weed edges, sand/gravel shores and near bottom breaks. In addition, crank baits casted along shore in the low light hours have also produced a few decent catches.
Bass anglers have basically put away their boats for the year -- though a warm, sunny day can produce some good action for largemouth for the die-hard bass anglers. Panfish action has been fair, with some nice crappie, bluegill, and perch still being found around any green weeds and near mid-depth cover.
Get out and enjoy the outdoors everyone.
Walleyemaxx