Fishing report August 19, 2022

Musky:
Musky fishing is good and getting better. Focus on weeds, weedlines, breaklines, and structure out to 18 feet. Favorite baits include bucktails, Bull Dawgs, gliders, jerkbaits, crankbaits, musky suckers, and topwaters. Trolling large stickbaits and crankbaits during the day is also a viable option.

Walleye:
Walleye action is somewhat slow. Look for fish on deep weeds, weed edges, rocks, and mudflats during the day. In low light, work weed edges and breaklines out to 12 feet. Use crawlers, leeches, minnows, crawler harnesses, Lindy rigs, Ned rigs, and drop-shot rigs, or troll deep diving crankbaits and stickbaits.

Northern Pike:
Northern pike action is very good in weeds and around panfish and baitfish concentrations, and on mid-depth to deep points, weed beds, and weed edges. Live bait, spinners, spinnerbaits, spoons, swim jigs, chatterbaits, crankbaits, plastics, and topwaters all work. Small fish are plentiful shallow, but go deeper with bigger baits for trophy pike.

Largemouth Bass:
Largemouth bass action is good, though fish are finding many places to hide, feed, and sulk. Find them from shallow to mid-depths in slop, lily pads, main lake weed beds, and on weedlines. Nearly all baits are working, including crawlers, chatterbaits, spinners, spinnerbaits, swim jigs, plastics, Texas rigs, wacky worms, frogs, and topwaters.

Smallmouth Bass:
Smallmouth bass fishing is good in depths from very shallow out to 27 feet, on weedlines, deep structure, and hard/soft transition areas. Check the entire water column! The most productive baits include sucker minnows, leeches, crawlers, crankbaits, Senkos, drop-shot rigs, Ned rigs, wacky worms, and topwaters.

Crappie:
Crappie fishing is good, though somewhat inconsistent. Fish are somewhat scattered in deeper basins and on weeds, wood, brush, bogs, and cribs. Baits of choice include crappie minnows, plastics, Crappie Scrubs, Mini-Mites, Tattle Tails, and Gulp! baits fished on small jigs and under slip bobbers.

Bluegill:
Bluegill fishing is very good to excellent. Smaller fish provide considerable action around shallow weeds, wood, brush, and other structure. Larger fish are near the bottom in 6-30 feet. Fish waxies, worms, crawler chunks, plastics, and Gulp! baits on small jigs under slip bobbers.