This weeks DNR report

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Park Falls DNR Service Center area

Upper Chippewa Basin fisheries report (Price, Rusk, Sawyer Taylor and inland Ashland and Iron counties) - Despite several more inches of rain late last week and continued high water levels, fishing success was fair to good on most waters across the Northwoods. Almost constantly changing weather did keep anglers on the lookout for approaching storms, but anglers did find both musky and bass to be fairly active in the past week. Musky success showed a little surge and most anglers reported some good action from small and medium-size fish (28 to 40 inches) . Quite a few musky seemed to be active along the weed edges and in the shallower weed beds. Top-water baits, large plastics and slower moving stick baits were the most productive. Almost any time of day has produced action and was mostly dependent on local weather conditions. Action for both largemouth and smallmouth bass has been more consistent than any other time during the summer and some decent catches have been made in the last week. Largemouth seem to be finally settled into a more typical summer pattern and have been relating to the thick cover, especially woody structure and bog edges. Jig/craw combinations and Texas-rigged worms have been the most productive and have to be fished close to the wood, tight to the bog/marsh edges, or in open pockets in the weed beds. However, the top-water bite for largemouth continues to be very slow. Smallmouth bass have been a bit tough to find in the large, clear lakes, but action continued to be good on the flowages and larger rivers. Soft plastics and crayfish-colored crank baits (and large-sized as well) have been the favorite baits, and the smallmouth have been relating to wood near deeper water areas. Walleye action continued to be very erratic, and most anglers report the very tough bite has continued thru most of this summer. A few decent catches have been made and those have occurred in the river sections of the larger flowages. Leeches and crawlers fished along the deep edges, and in/along the weeds have produced most of the walleye that have been caught. Panfish action continues to be fair. Larger bluegill have still been a little tough to find but some decent catches of crappie, perch and rock bass continue to be reported.

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

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