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SturgeonTechniqueLive Bait RigsSeasonIceStructureOpen Water/BasinSetup just downstream from hwy 36 bridge in 25 ft of water. Used nightcrawlers and fatheads on same hook. Didn’t catch any sturgeon. Sounds like nobody else was catching much either. Wind was brutal!
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CrappieTechniqueIce Fishing SpoonsSeasonIceStructurePointsBad ice conditions made it difficult to get out there however the crappies were biting. Although they were quite picky. I could only get them to bite on a jigging spoon tipped with a minnow head
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White BassTechniqueHard JerkbaitsSeasonSpring (Spawn)StructureOpen Water/BasinWater levels are slowly receding. The fish are starting to bite before they spawn. Best lures are smaller jerk baits. Brighter colors seem to do better. With the warmer weather conditions the bite should get better for the next two weeks or so. Small unweighted buck tail flies also worked.
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WalleyeTechniqueVertical Jigging Mid Depth (10-19')SeasonSpring (Spawn)StructureRiver ChannelsWater temps around 50 degrees. Fishing from 6 till 8:30pm, Caught 3 males, scatted around. Drifted across points and ledges dragging 1/4 oz jigs with PowerBait soft plastics. All bites came on white twitchtail minnows.
- SpeciesWalleyeTechniqueVertical Jigging Mid Depth (10-19')SeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureRiver Channels
Relatively slow bite for the Wisconsin Opener (although the St. Croix opened up one week earlier). Water temperatures were 50-55 degrees and warming fast with the light switch of a cold La Nina spring and summer seeming to flip overnight. As such, the bite will likely change day by day, so what I say here now, will likely be different tomorrow. Still, although fishing was slow, we picked up a couple nice fish along a current seam in a channel just north of the I94 bridge in Hudson. Pink glitter 1/4 oz jig with a fathead minnow was the ticket.
- SpeciesWalleyeTechniqueTrolling Mid Depth (10-19')SeasonSpring (Spawn)StructureBoulders
We trolled for walleyes without any results, although I lost a nice one at the boat. We caught some nice smallmouth bass, though.
- SpeciesWalleyeTechniqueTrolling Mid Depth (10-19')SeasonSpring (Post-Spawn)StructureLedges
Walleye fishing has been a bit slow in the area between the Stillwater lift bridge and Hudson Bridge the first two weeks of the season. Still, some keeper sized Walleye have been hitting in 12-15 fow along dropoffs on 2 3/4 Flicker Shad crank baits on long line trolling rods with a thin braid (15 lb). Trolling has been outfishing any other live bait technique.
