Pine Lake

Nice report eyesman, thanks for sharing. Hoping to camp there this summer. We pass by it all the time heading to campgrounds farther north.

I was on Pine Lake 5/27-6/3 and 6/17-6/24. The first week the bluegill were staged to spawn but not actively spawning, by the second week they were mostly spawned and off the beds. The crappies were plentiful the first week but ran 8-9” in size. Caught all the bluegill you could want over rock structure and with a lot of sorting you could get a decent catch of cleanable size gills. Fished some emerging weeds in 6-9’ of water but most gills there were small with very few keepers. Fished perch in 4-5’ of weedy water, 8-9’ emerging weed edges and 10-12’ of sandy harder bottom areas. Many perch 4-6” with an occasional 8-10” fish to get enough for a couple meals. Minnows, worms and small leeches were all effective. Had some inccedental catches of both large mouth and small mouth bass in the 12-14” size while panfishing. No accidental catches of northern which was odd and no accidental catches of walleye which is normal. Water is 12-16” below normal and this rain is greatly needed. Weekend boat and jet ski traffic was busy, weekdays was the scattered fisherman and occasional pontoons out for a ride. Most all the jet ski playing was out mid lake where it is void of the fishing boats but there had to be that one that thought the anchored up fishing boats were her own personal obstacle course to run. You just can’t fix stupid. Kept enough fish for a couple of good fish fry’s and brought home a couple meals, the rest are still swimming.