Fishing report September 7, 2023

Musky:
Musky action is good to very good. Focus on shallow weeds, weed edges, points, and drop-offs. Look deeper during hot temperatures when trolling can be productive. Bucktails, gliders, creepers, and topwaters work well. Cooler temperatures will soon make using suckers more practical.

Walleye:
Walleye fishing is slow, but trollers are doing well. Fish are suspending in and around deep weeds, weedlines, drop-offs, flats, and basins. In the daytime, troll/drift crawlers and minnows on harnesses, bottom bouncers, or Lindy Rigs. Deep running crankbaits work, too. In the evening, work crawlers under slip bobbers on shallow weeds and weed edges.

Northern Pike:
Northern pike action is good to very good. Look for fish in and on the edges of shallow weeds and near panfish and baitfish concentrations. For trophy pike, fish bigger baits on deep weeds, weed edges, and points. Northern and walleye suckers, spinners, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, spoons, crankbaits, and chatterbaits are all working well.

Largemouth Bass:
Largemouth bass fishing is good to very good for anglers fishing in, along, and around shallow weeds, weedlines, wood, lily pads, brush, and docks. Live bait, plastics in various configurations and presentations, spinners, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, stickbaits, and Whopper Ploppers, frogs, and other topwaters are all producing action.

Smallmouth Bass:
Smallmouth bass action is very good to excellent on rock, rocky points, and other hard bottoms, and stumps in 8-28 feet. Best baits include sucker minnows, plastics in a broad range of forms, set-ups, and presentations; Ned, Texas, and drop-shot rigs; and Whopper Ploppers and other topwaters.

Crappie:
Crappie fishing is fair to good. Find them in 12-25 feet during the day, on or suspending over weeds, weedlines, brush, basins, flats, and cribs. At night, fish floating bogs. Bait choices include crappie minnows, Mini-Mites, Garland Mayflies, plastics, and Gulp! Minnows on small jigs fished near bottom and/or under slip bobbers.

Bluegill and Perch:
Bluegill and perch fishing is excellent for small fish, and good for larger bluegills. Shallow weeds, brush, and docks hold big numbers of aggressive smaller fish. Big bluegills are on or suspending over deep weeds, weedlines, basins, and cribs. Waxies, leaf worms, crawler chunks, plastics, and Gulp! baits fished under slip bobbers are all productive offerings.