Dow's Boat Rentals

A call to Laurie Murphy over at Dow’s Boat Rentals gave us news of some decent fishing, but once again crowds have been light even going into the Holiday weekend. She told us the bass fishing continues to be good in what’s left of the weed beds on topwater baits and weedless rigged plasticbaits. Evening fishing has also been a nice mix of walleyes and hybrids on swimming plugs and live bait. Catfishing has also been very good with a lot of bullheads and mixed size channels cats giving anglers plenty of action. Lastly she said crappies and perch are also hitting well in the evenings.

Laurie Murphy over at Dow’s Boat Rentals said despite the late week storm the fishing was decent most of the week in the states largest lake. She told us the walleye and hybrid fishing remains decent in the evening after dark with jigging the deeper ends of points of lakes and drop-offs producing the marbleyes and bait the hybrids. Crappie fishing was also decent on small jigs tipped with one inch Gulp, plasticbaits and minnows fished under floats. If you are looking for the largemouth some good topwater fishing in the holes of the weed beds and through the thin vegetation is the ticket. Jitterbugs, buzzbaits and other constant motion surface baits are scoring some explosive hits when they are slow fished along the edges of the weedlines. Smallies are being caught off the drop-offs in deeper water and off points of land on jig combinations. Some worms or meal worms fished under floats will take all the bluegills and panfish from the shadows of docks, bulkheads, under bridges and trees in the evenings. Laurie said the one problem they have had all season has been a lack of anglers fishing, even on the weekends.