spring fishing
Contributors to this thread:Wisconsin
From: xtroutx
22-Mar-21
Walleye are starting to move up a few rivers around me.
From: Pete-pec
22-Mar-21
Nice!
From: Trickle rut
22-Mar-21
A few rain showers this week should get it really going.
From: Live2Hunt
22-Mar-21
Yep, just put the ice fishing gear away yesterday. This coming Saturday I am heading North to fish Steelhead on the best river in the world.
From: lame crowndip
22-Mar-21
My son and I usually take a charter into lake superior but are thinking about lake Michigan this year. Anyone know a good charter???
From: xtroutx
22-Mar-21
Lame, PM Capt MIke.
From: RUGER1022
22-Mar-21
Lincoln cty Wi River . Males are accumulating caught 3 Sunday nite. Warm & sunny today . Will hit it hard Tues. & Wed in the rain .
From: DiRTY MiKE
22-Mar-21
Steelhead
Steelhead
Nice walleye!
Got this little guy last week.
From: CaptMike
23-Mar-21
Thanks xtrout!! Was out this evening and filled this tub with fish.
From: Live2Hunt
23-Mar-21
Nice fish Dmike, they coming in pretty good along Michigan?
From: CaptMike
23-Mar-21
No, been shooting the local mill pond right near home.
From: Live2Hunt
23-Mar-21
Man, I used to have fun shooting carp with a bow. I would skip school when I found they were running. Have not done that in awhile.
From: CaptMike
23-Mar-21
It is really good fun. I've been doing it a lot the last couple years. Luckily, I have a convenient spot to dispose of them.
From: DiRTY MiKE
23-Mar-21
A few came in with the melt off. Should be getting really good soon.
From: Pasquinell
23-Mar-21
I made the mistake of chopping them up with an axe and burying them in my vegetable garden. I had every skunk and raccoon from Kenosha to Milwaukee come dig my plants and garden up for a month. Plus chopping the carp up on a sheet of plywood was a real treat... I think my wife made me throw those clothes away.
From: CaptMike
23-Mar-21
Pasq, I have a farmer buddy who lets me throw them in the manure spreader. Chops them up and spreads them on his fields. I bet those clothes were "special!"
From: Pasquinell
23-Mar-21
We had a blast every year shooting those carp. I havent done it in awhile. We would throw a big plastic tote in the boat and take turns shooting until the tote was full. After chopping them up that year I may have been arrested as a mass murderer had it not been the scales in my teeth! Its messy but what a blast!
From: xtroutx
23-Mar-21
Nice steelhead there DirtyMike. Bet that was a fun fight. That how it is here to Ruger. Lots of small males, big one wont be far behind. Hope we get the rain tomorrow, and a good west wind to push some ice shoves back out.
From: RUGER1022
24-Mar-21
Caught 3 males in the rain last nite . 1 keeper . Water was rising fast & hi . Highlight of the evening was a flock of White fronted landed next to me . They are a few hundred miles off course .
From: xtroutx
24-Mar-21
I was out yesterday morning. Caught 1 keeper also. Lost a nice one close to the boat. Nasty wind coming off the lake made for a cold day out. I will probobly wait till next week now, when they are a little farther up river. I've got a nice spot about 1/2 way between the damn and the lake. Lots of trees for good cover from the wind. Makes fishing much more enjoyable.
From: Reggiezpop
24-Mar-21
Kids are getting it done today between classes.
From: Hoot
24-Mar-21
Those smiles are priceless.
From: CaptMike
24-Mar-21
Very nice Reggie. Oak Creek?
From: xtroutx
24-Mar-21
Very cool, great for them.
From: Nocturnal II
24-Mar-21
Reggie i know where that is at. Fun little place to fish and a couple happy young faces! Great job dad
From: Reggiezpop
24-Mar-21
Thanks everyone, and yes I believe they discovered a mill pond in Oak Creek. I’m happy that I have wife that loves to fish and take adventures even when I’m at work.
From: Live2Hunt
25-Mar-21
Good times right there!! That looked like Oak Creek to me also. I believe I saw an episode of Bill Dance or one of them fishing salmon right there by that bridge. I would love to fish some of those trib's more, just have a hard time with those bigger city's.
From: Cheesehead Mike
29-Mar-21
Caught some nice rainbows and browns the last couple days.
From: Live2Hunt
29-Mar-21
That is a nice rainbow Mike. I planned on going steelhead fishing this past Saturday but the river was high, ice storm on weather report and it being opening day I am waiting till this Saturday.
From: xtroutx
29-Mar-21
Very nice Mike.
From: RUGER1022
04-Apr-21
Took 4 grandkids fishing Sat. Afternoon . Just 1 Walleye but 8 big Perch . The Run should fire up next week . WI River .
I baked 24 huge chocolate chip cookies for the trip . Brought home an empty container .
From: xtroutx
04-Apr-21
Went out friday with a buddy. We got 8 between 17' and 22". Kept two 20' males. No big females to speak of yet. Biggest was 22" with a full belly of eggs. Seen alot of 20 to 24 being caught but none of them 28 to 30 inch females. Suckers are already up thick and sterguns are also up. Weird year. Seems to early for the suckers. They are usually at the tail end of the walleye run. Going back out tomorrow.
From: xtroutx
05-Apr-21
Wife got a 27" female today. Her first walleye. Already laid its eggs. A few 16"-18" small males also. Hooked stregon 6 times today. Snapped one rod.
From: Cheesehead Mike
05-Apr-21
Got my first crappies of the open water season yesterday.
From: RUGER1022
11-Apr-21
Central WI Perch are spawning & the Walleyes know it . Caught 2 eaters , a 16 in Crappie, & a 6 lb Bass . Caught everything on a 3 in .little Cleo painted Yellow & Black .
From: Live2Hunt
12-Apr-21
Got a nice limit of good perch this past weekend. Tasty!!
From: xtroutx
12-Apr-21
16 inch crappie is a bigg'in. I got out with my son on Saturday and we did well for walleye. Biggest was 24". Everything was all spawned out. Went back today and got one 19". They are all headed back to the lake. Saturday had 30 trucks in the boat landing, today there were 3 of us. I got out 9 times with the boat for the run. Wheel bearing went out today, I'm done now for walleye until this summer on the bay.
From: MjF
21-Apr-21
So I went to Iowa the other day, town called Arnold’s Park, they call the 5 lakes there the Great Lakes of Iowa, what a beautiful place and the lakes are crystal clear due to natural filtration. Ran into this guy while I was there, Berkley Bedell I’m definitely going back to fish there.
From: RUGER1022
21-Apr-21
Picked up a few " good eaters " on the WI River. Tough conditions, mid 30's & windy . Wearing gloves with heat packs in late April . A 4 foot Musky took a swipe at a small Northern as I lifted it out of the water .
From: RUGER1022
02-May-21
Rare for such awesome weather on opening day . My 2 Walleye spots were packed . Hiked in to a remote atrout stream & pond . Caught 2 Rainbows, 1 Brook , & 2 fat Bluegills .
Got back to the Jeep & picked about 15 ticks off .
From: xtroutx
02-May-21
I was out in the woods yesterday and the ticks are absolutely terrible this year. I also had 15 to 20 in no time. I had tickidise the rest of the day.
From: RUGER1022
06-May-21
Great start to the Trout season . Caught 6 Brookies, 5 Rainbows , & 3 Browns this week . On various ponds & streams. Kept 3 for the supper table . Lincoln cty.
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08-May-21
31.5. 10.5 lbs
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From: MjF
08-May-21
Nice Walleye
From: CaptMike
08-May-21
Been getting lots of these this past week.
From: CaptMike
08-May-21
And shooting lots of these.
From: upnorth
09-May-21
From: Hoot
09-May-21
Nice walleye Steve and also a very nice spoonbill upnorth.
