Lake Minocqua, Oneida County (all postings)

I finished up the surveying part of the new lake mappping last weekend. The new map should be out before fall. I found a few cribs, a few offshore gravel and rock humps and some real nice inside turns on weedbeds and shore line. The new maps will have contours as well as bottom type transitions and any cover that we found out there.

When I was finishing up on the west side of 51. I marked what appeared to be walleyes on the top of gravel bars early in the morning. Latter in the morning they were off the top and more along the sides. I didn't have time to fish or I would have dropped a jig on them.

Check with Jake and Russ Smith (Smittybait.com) good guys , and know that water as well as anyone!

I would certainly not discount Scott from being a quality choice on Lake Minocqua, but would recommend Kurt Justice on proximity to the body of water being fished.

Musky Ben

I would check with Scott Biscobing of Hodag Guide Service, his website is http://www.hodagguideservice.com/index.shtml

He was an instructor of mine and a nice guy with resonable rates.....

WIll be coming up to Lake Minocqua around labor day for a week, wondering if i could get a quide reference. Basically on my first day up (pre labor day weekend), i would like to spend the afternoon into early evening getting someone to show me the lake for multi species. Sounds silly, but i didnt do that last time i headed north and was skunked for an entire week on the lake i stayed on (i was definately doing something wrong.. to this day i dont know what).

So.. please, anyone have a good recommendation.

Been fishing evenings this week, sticking mostly to small bays and channels. Bass have been moving up in the shallows, though I haven't seen many beds. Been doing great on topwater and soft plastics in 0-3 fow. Went out this evening for crappies in the thouroughfare, managed a few nice fish including one 12.5" fish released. Also caught plenty of bass.

Fished the shallows for a couple hours today looking for panfish. I got into some small bays in the bogs east of HWY 47. The water temp in the little pockets was in the 70s. The bass were on beds as were the crappies. The gills were hanging around and will be sweeping beds soon. I caught lots of gills. The crappies were harder to catch but I got about a dozen up to 13 inches. The gills were on the small side but I could have got a limit of 8 inchers. I released everything. Also saw one small musky and 3 or 4 dogfish. All cruising in less that 2 feet of water.

The water temp out on the main lake was in the mid 50s. I did see a nice school of perch in some weeds in about 6 feet of water. I didn't fish for them but some of them looked to be in the 9 inch range.

Windy for sure!! I started working on our lake mapping project today. The south side of the lake was rockin! I did see some gills and crappies in about 5 or 6 feet of water hanging around the cabbage. Some small largemouth as well. I tried fishing them when I was done for the day. The gusty wind made it hard to hold in place. I caught a few crappies on minnows and jig W/twister tail.

Fought the wind for a while today. Frustrating more than anything else. Caught a few small largemouth in the shallow weeds/wood in minocqua and kawaga but was a pretty slow day. Didn't see much for panfish roaming the shallows yet besides one bay. Didn't make it out of the central part of the lake due to the wind.

thanks!

is there any good panfishing going on?

Bowfishing is prohibited in Vilas and Oneida Counties. Just a heads up.

awsome thank you.

this is a stupid question but are there any carp up there? im a huge bowfisherman

is walleye fishing open? i am heading up there this weekend w the ol ladys family and i would love to take the boat up. anything good biting?

I stand corrected, forgot about that, thanks Musky Ben

Esoxer:

On page 56 of the WI Fishing Regs, Bass season does open in the Northern Zone on Saturday, May 7th through June 17th with a daily bag limit of 0. From June 18th on there 5 fish daily bag and length limit of 14". Lake Minocqua is included in these regs for the northern zone.

Musky Ben