TFF Update

[Don Pemble]

After a successful half day of smallie fishing on Sunday, Monday was spent walleye fishing with guests Jim and John and the walleye were there to greet us. Using Reeves weedless jigs tipped with either 1/2 crawler or fatheads, we found many aggressive eyes, mostly in 10 feet of water over hard bottom with scattered submerged stumps and rock. These areas were surrounded by at least 13 feet of water so I guess one could call them a hump. We did try other areas, such as wind blown shorelines and done some drifting over 13 to 15 feet of water but found nothing there. By 11:30, after boating 20 or so eyes and keeping our limits of nice keepers, we spent the rest of the day using plastics and chasing the smallies and came up with a decent amount of them, not as many caught as the day before, but some were larger females.

Back out on Wednesday, will keep you posted.

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[BretRobert1]

Don, what is the current water temp. range?

[Mark Benson]

Bret:

I was up on Sat. and we were seeing upper 50's to low 60's... Assuming that things have gone up since then as well.

Mark

[Flambeau Vista Retreat LLC]

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[Don Pemble]

Water temps as of yesterday was averaging 65 degrees, might be somewhat cooler in main lake basins such as Baraboo, Lake Bastine, etc.

[MARK707]

Hi Don, Could you help us out and explain a bit more about "using plastics and chasing the smallies"? We'll be on the TFF over the weekend and would love to CPR a few of those legendary "footballs".
Thanks, Mark707

[Don Pemble]

Hi Mark,

All we were throwing were Mister Twisters along with swimbaits with paddle tails, they worked great and we were just working shorelines, mostly with visible rock or wood, you should do well.

[St Croix Kid]

I would try some texas rigged senko type worms and tubes. I have been successful with both. Just my .02