Fishing report August 16, 2023

Musky:
Musky fishing is good and anglers report they see many fish, with follows and short hits and even boat a few! Focus on shallow to deep weeds, weed flats, wood, rock, and baitfish and panfish concentrations. Effective baits include rubber baits, bucktails, swimbaits, gliders, and topwaters.

Walleye:
Walleye fishing is slower, but improving. During daylight, troll crankbaits and crawler harnesses over deep weeds, weed edges, basins, breaklines, drop-offs, and rock. In evening into dark, work shallow weeds, weed edges, and other structure with crawlers, walleye suckers, and fatheads on jigs, spinner rigs, slip bobbers, and harnesses.

Northern Pike:
Northern pike action is a very good all-day bite, with best success in morning and late afternoon. Search shallow to deep weeds, weed flats, bays, shorelines, and baitfish and panfish concentrations. Sucker minnows, spinners, spinnerbaits, spoons, bucktails, and crankbaits all produce good action.

Largemouth Bass:
Largemouth bass fishing is very good to excellent. Search in and around shallow weeds, weed edges, wood, slop, shorelines, and docks, and mid-depth to deeper weeds, wood, and rock. Various plastics on jigs, drop-shot and Ned rigs, spinnerbaits, and topwaters such as Whopper Ploppers, frogs, and buzzbaits all catch fish.

Smallmouth Bass:
Smallmouth bass fishing is good to very good, with fish on deep rock, weeds, weed edges, and wood, and shallower weedlines, stumps, and sandy shorelines. Ned Rigs, drop-shot plastics, Berkley MaxScent PowerBait, and Whopper Ploppers and other topwaters are all productive.

Crappie:
Crappie fishing is fair to good. Fish are deep on weeds, weed edges, wood, cribs, and sunken bogs during the day, and floating bogs in late afternoon into dark. Best baits include crappie minnows, Mini-Mites, Garland Mayflies, Voodoo Flash Bang jigs, plastics, and one-inch Gulp! Minnows.

Bluegill and Perch:
Bluegill and perch fishing is good around shallow structure and on deep weed edges. Leaf worms, crawlers, plastics, and Gulp! baits on small jigs, plain hooks, drop-shot rigs, and hook and split shot set-ups under bobbers all tempt panfish.