Plum Lake, Vilas County (all postings)

Water temp on Memorial Day weekend was 59*F. I pounded the water pretty hard for Smallies and only had one 3.5 to 4# fish to show.

Shimano:

Gotta be in the mid to upper 50's, perhaps some parts are lower 60's...

Musky Ben

I am looking to take a trip to fish Plum for smallies. Can anyone give me updated water temps? I would appreciate it very much!

Shim

If you want to know ice or trail conditions call the Sayner Pub - that is who I always call before I head up.

How is the ice looking?

?? anything showing up

A few more...

Just got home from a week on Plum with the family. Had a pretty solid week. Fished mainly for Walleyes / panfish jigging leeches off of the deep side of the rock shelves / as well as the deeper weedlines. Caught a pile of panfish, 2 slot Walleyes, and some LM, and SM Bass. The SM was fun to catch - super scrappy. Gave everything it had and was just exhausted when we got her into the boat. Snapped a quick pic. and gently moved her back and forth in the water until she took off - did the same with the Large Mouth. Released the panfish into some grease for the family fish fry.

On vacation for the week. Been catching nice perch all week. Jigging half night crawler on small hook and small split shot about 18 inches up. West end of lake in deeper weed beds been decsent all week.

dead sea for me, the heat and flat water probably had something to do with the fishing conditions.

Just got back from a long weekend on Plum. We did well on the panfish - also caught 4 Walleyes. Two were under 14" and the other two were in the slot between 14 to 18" No pics though, it was after dark and I don't have a flash on the cell phone.

Didn't catch any tank Smallies this trip though...

We were jigging a steep rock shelf by a shallower weed line with a slip sinker rig tipped with a crawler half or leech - both seemed to work equally as well.

15 fow

i have fished this lake for 20 plus years i know how to target just about all types of fish but the dam MUSKY. iv herd they like to stay deep and feed on cisco. i have fished ever weed bed in that lake only to come up with the same thing over and over lots of small snakes. i only catch and release even a 50+ any tips would be well appreciated

The weeds on either end of the lake are going to give you the most action. Should find some smallies around the big island. Working the break around most of the lake will produce a few fish, as well as some of the docks. A lot of mid lake structure, but that is tougher to find and fish.

Tight lines,

Steve

Going to be fishing with my 2 boys this week, first time here wondering if anyone had any advice ,Thanks