Turtle Flambeau Flowage, Iron County

A few pictures from last few days.

Early sept. is the mixed bag season. Today my fisherman wanted to concentrate on walleyes, we fished walleye spots all day, caught about a dozen,had 8 keepers, biggest 18", along with the sept. mixed bag of species. We tried some 8-12' spots found one good walleye but everything else came from deeper wood ranging from 13-18'. We had leeches, crawlers and fatheads but all of our walleyes came on crawlers, do expect that to change soon to the fall minnow bite. Some days the bobbers work as well as casting jigs, today the walleyes came on jigs, some spots with a steep slope we didn't put bobbers out as it is pretty tough to get the depth correct on a drop with the boat moving in the wind. North west wind kept us in jackets most of the day.

One of the most fun aspects of my job is the regular customers I get to fish with and the freindships aquired. Fourth year of fishing with a group from Georgia (four days this week) they are a hoot! They enjoyed the fish fry from the day of fishing.

I'll be leaving for Alaska after fishing this Friday. I have the 28th of Sept. open and days in October. I have someone manning my e-mails and schedule while I am gone if you would like to book a trip. Looking forward to the fall walleye fishing and would be glad to fish for musky or a combination trip.

The wife and I fished today and the last 2 days and did O.K. not great but O.K. Sunday we found walleyes in 12-13 fow up on the flats with natural wood. Monday we found crappies in 18-20 fow on edge of river channels today we got walleys mixed with the crapies in same 18-20 fow. Water temp was 68-69 today was 66.Almost all fish on minnows for us. 

Was out on Saturday too, trying the TFF for the first time.  What a gorgeous playground for fishermen!  I think we ran into Jeff at the launch in the morning, and felt the same effect of the wind as he did.  Tried mostly spots that would keep us out of the wind as much as possible, but the weather was the biggest downside to the day overall.  Still managed 2 shy of the limit on walleyes with 3 guys, and a few jumbo perch to boot, so I don't feel so bad fishing blind on a new body of water.  Coming back in a couple of weeks to hopefully calmer seas.

FS

A few pictures. Or not. Was really proud a couple weeks ago, not using camera anymore (it took on too much rain) but figured out how to get pics from phone to Lake link on my own. Last couple posts couldn't remember how to do it and no technical advisor on stand by, my computuer guy Elliot is somewhere "out west" on vacation. I enjoy posting pictures of happy customers with fish, I feel it legitimizes reports and helps people get a birds eye view of what is being caught. Sorry.

Today, strong NW wind and cold. The 69* water felt warm when washing the worm bedding off of hands (still the bait preferred). First spot today deep wood, 16-18' had 2 keeper walleyes and missed a couple others thought we were going to have a banner day on walleyes but the first half hour wasn't reflective of the day ahead. Rained on and off all day, wind stayed strong throughout the day, for a few hours in the afternoon couldn't get the boat to hold broadside to the wind in the open, so sought  quieter water.

When the wind gets near 20 I spend more time looking for fish, if fishing deeper water,(I don't have much confidence in seeing fish in 8 fow in heavy stumps ,if you are going to fish it you fish it)  when you have to put 100' of line out and pull it in against the wind you want to be reasonably sure you are putting the boat over fish, I do use the sonar for that.

Fished a variety of wood structure from 7-18' slip bobbers and casting jigs. Not a jumping in the boat day but a good mixed bag catch of fish.

Todays picture: 3 14" walleye,7 bluegill up to 9" and 5 perch up to 11". We fished mainly walleye spots so didn't have any crappie. I'm looking forward to the fall walleye bite, lately I've been cleaning 15-30 fish, gills, crappies, perch and walleye, 9 or 12 walleye go pretty quick.

With day light and darkness starting to have equal lengths of time and  cooler nights the water temps are starting to slowly drop. The temp today, 69 we are still fishing with crawlers and leeches. Like last year at this time it has been a mixed bag of fish being brought to the boat. Fishing both bobbers and casting 1/8 oz. slow fall jigs. Mainly deeper water(12-20') though Wednesday fishing in the rain we found fish in 7-8' including a 17 and 18" smallmouth.

Today in a morning trip we had a nice catch of fish, a couple of the perch 12", a couple kept walleyes some nice crappies and bluegills. The fishing has been pretty good catching a variety of fish.

Have some open time this weekend if anyone is up and wanting to go out.

Thanks  Jeff