Hayward Lakes VCB
08-26-2022, 12:17 PM
Musky:
Musky fishing is good and consistent around weeds, wood, rock, points, and humps in depths to 18 feet. Small to medium bucktails, spinners, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and topwaters are doing the job throughout the day.
Walleye:
Walleye fishing is fair to good. Look for fish on deep weeds, weed edges, basins, brush, and flats during the day. Target shallower structure in early morning and evening hours. Favored presentations include crawlers and fatheads on jigs, harnesses, and slip bobbers, as well as trolling crankbaits and spinner rigs.
Northern Pike:
Northern pike action is fair to good and improving. Look for smaller fish and plenty of action along shallow weeds, weedlines, humps, and points. Live bait and small to medium size spinners, spinnerbaits, spoons, stickbaits, and bucktails are all effective offerings. Go deeper with bigger baits for trophy pike.
Largemouth Bass:
Largemouth bass anglers are catching good numbers of fish in mid-depth to shallow slop, lily pads, weeds, wood, and other structure, particularly near panfish and baitfish areas. Bait choices include live bait, plastics in various riggings, spinners, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits, and assorted topwaters.
Smallmouth Bass:
Smallmouth bass fishing is good for anglers fishing deep weeds, weedlines, wood, rock, points, bars, cribs, and hard bottom transition areas. Best presentations include Texas rigs, drop-shot rigs, and crankbaits, as well as plastics and live bait fished on jigs and/or under slip bobbers.
Crappie:
Crappie fishing is good to very good on mid-depth to deep weeds, weedlines, wood, basins, brush, and cribs, with some fish suspending over deep water. Crappie minnows, waxies, plastics, Mini-Mites, Tattle Tails, and Gulp! baits on jigs and plain hooks, with/without a bobber, will entice the fish.
Bluegill:
Bluegill fishing is good to very good in a variety of locations. Look for them near shallow to mid-depth weeds and weedlines, lily pads, docks, brush, and other structure. For bigger fish, work deep weeds and structure. Best baits include waxies, worms, leaf worms, crawler pieces, minnows, plastics, and Gulp! baits under bobbers.
Perch:
Perch fishing is steady for anglers fishing in and near shallow to mid-depth weeds, docks, bays, and along shorelines. Waxies, worms, minnows, and crawler pieces on jigs and/or fished under bobbers all work for perch.
Musky fishing is good and consistent around weeds, wood, rock, points, and humps in depths to 18 feet. Small to medium bucktails, spinners, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and topwaters are doing the job throughout the day.
Walleye:
Walleye fishing is fair to good. Look for fish on deep weeds, weed edges, basins, brush, and flats during the day. Target shallower structure in early morning and evening hours. Favored presentations include crawlers and fatheads on jigs, harnesses, and slip bobbers, as well as trolling crankbaits and spinner rigs.
Northern Pike:
Northern pike action is fair to good and improving. Look for smaller fish and plenty of action along shallow weeds, weedlines, humps, and points. Live bait and small to medium size spinners, spinnerbaits, spoons, stickbaits, and bucktails are all effective offerings. Go deeper with bigger baits for trophy pike.
Largemouth Bass:
Largemouth bass anglers are catching good numbers of fish in mid-depth to shallow slop, lily pads, weeds, wood, and other structure, particularly near panfish and baitfish areas. Bait choices include live bait, plastics in various riggings, spinners, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits, and assorted topwaters.
Smallmouth Bass:
Smallmouth bass fishing is good for anglers fishing deep weeds, weedlines, wood, rock, points, bars, cribs, and hard bottom transition areas. Best presentations include Texas rigs, drop-shot rigs, and crankbaits, as well as plastics and live bait fished on jigs and/or under slip bobbers.
Crappie:
Crappie fishing is good to very good on mid-depth to deep weeds, weedlines, wood, basins, brush, and cribs, with some fish suspending over deep water. Crappie minnows, waxies, plastics, Mini-Mites, Tattle Tails, and Gulp! baits on jigs and plain hooks, with/without a bobber, will entice the fish.
Bluegill:
Bluegill fishing is good to very good in a variety of locations. Look for them near shallow to mid-depth weeds and weedlines, lily pads, docks, brush, and other structure. For bigger fish, work deep weeds and structure. Best baits include waxies, worms, leaf worms, crawler pieces, minnows, plastics, and Gulp! baits under bobbers.
Perch:
Perch fishing is steady for anglers fishing in and near shallow to mid-depth weeds, docks, bays, and along shorelines. Waxies, worms, minnows, and crawler pieces on jigs and/or fished under bobbers all work for perch.