Oneida County

Fished this morning in the rain for 6 hours for walleyes on a big deep lake. We were in 12 to 16 fow over short weeds with slip bobbers and a leech. Rick and Joe started with and hour of no rain, in that hour we caught over 20 nice walleyes then we could tell the rain was just about on us. As we were getting rain gear on they were saying they were not going to get wet, I told them if the bobbers kept going down like they were wouldn’t call it a day. We fished through rain and had 2 hours of no rain at the end. We caught lots and lots of walleye’s the number you would not believe so I wouldn’t say it. I have lots of days open for anyone wanting to go fishing. Thanks Rick and Joe so much fun 

Fishing the chain has been great since Saturday!
Walleye- most caught from 8-16’ at the edge of any weeds with any wind , purple Bago jig w/leech or crawler! 

Perch - dead sticking with split shot and gold hook tipped with leech, crawler piece, or red worms! Some nice 9-12” out there

Gills- same as above ( some pushing 10”s ) 

Bass ( aka green carp) hitting jigs 

Love the chain! 

Had a nice musky chasing a 22” walleye at the boat plenty of splashing! Walleye dodge me and the musky from dinner! 

I fished 3 days with walleye Mark and Walleye John. We didn’t keep any fish but we caught lots of Walleye’s on slip bobbers and leeches over 12 to 16 fow over weeds. Are best day was Father’s Day with a little wind and lots of boats on the lake. Thanks again guys lots of fun. I have days open coming up.

Last week was a cold one for the most part.  Temps at night into the 30’s with mornings on the water in the low 40’s.  Surface temps dropped into low 60’s (from highs in upper 70’s to 80 degrees).  Wind chill made early fishing tough to deal with (pulled out the heavy sweatshirts and jackets).  With tough cold weather came some tough fishing.  Temps are rising again now, yet the fishing seems to be a bit behind.
 
Yellow Perch:  Good-Very Good – Perch never get a high ranking in the summer reports, but this week they top the charts!  Working 6-9’ cabbage flats with red, brown or orange 1/16 oz weedless jigs tipped with ½ crawlers produced some very nice 9-12” Perch this week.  Slip-floats baited with ½ crawlers, medium leeches or their favorite, thunderbugs also effective.  Yes, Perch got some love on a tough week and anglers got some great eating.
 
Largemouth Bass:  Fair–Good – Setting up in their favorite summer time weed pattern.  Fish same 6-10’ cabbage flats using jig Ned Rigs, Wacky Worms, Jig/creature combos.  Largemouth have picked up the “action” slack.  Even anglers jigging large leeches for Walleyes in weeds reporting “lots” of LMB!
 
Pumpkinseed:  Good – Pumpkinseeds?!  Yes, had an outing with the Pumpkinseed Kid AKA Remy Anderson (5 yrs old) and he tore up the shorelines with the ol’ bobber and worm trick.  Knocked ‘em dead!  (But released all alive!)  First time ever fishing, but won’t be his last!
 
Bluegill:  Fair-Good – Cold had Gills slowed way down.  This should pick up once water temps get back into 70’s and Gills move into shallows to spawn.
 
Smallmouth Bass:  Fair-Good - Actually found one still on a bed, poor bugger, got stuck with the babysitting duty.  Shallow water, inside weeds worked for some using Wacky Worms, Sweet Beavers.  Also reports from anglers working jerkbaits along breaks of 8-12’, but action slow.
 
Musky:  Fair-Good - Report from guide Jake Smith finding Musky very shallow, comparable to first cool down of September.  Surface baits, such as Flaptails, small bucktails (Wizards) and 9” jerkbaits worked slowly in the early mornings near inlets/outlets or some type of current best.
 
Northern Pike:  Fair – Oddly off.  Best dragging suckers or chubs slowly through cabbage flats.  Bites light.  Not a lot of chasing, but some spinnerbait action.
 
Walleye:  Fair-Poor – One good day in seven…yeah, I’d say poor.  Working redtails through heavy weeds of 6-10’.  Slow and low.  Bites reluctant.
 
Crappies:  Fair-Poor – Not a lot of reports.  Anglers once again finding schools of unresponsive fish.  Tough to trigger.  Live minnows on the smallest jig and plastics you can fish with in wind best.
 
Temps on the way up this week.  Highs in the mid-80’s.  Summer patterns should return as water temps will be breaking into 70’s again.  Still no sign of big mayfly (Hexagenia) hatch so that cloud still coming!  Mosquitos bad, not as bad as three weeks ago, but light rain, humidity and warmth bringing more out.  Dragonflies help, but they don’t start their day as early as us anglers.

Walleye Monday 
Jig/ crawler or Leech 
Slowly over  vegetation into rock/sand ( humps and steep breaks) 
4-16 feet of water 

Have fun! 

Pike fishing has been fantastic.  Throw a Mepps 4 over weeds in 5-6 fow with weeds 1/2 way up or so.  May have to use a #3 if the weeds are taller.  Lots of 20-24 eater size chowing these and it's a fun fight to the boat.  In the past 3/8 oz chatter baits or medium size spinner baits also have worked.  You may have to play with colors to dial in on a specific lake.  On ours firetiger, red/white and copper/orange have been working.  

Perch fishing has been good/great the last few days!
Dead sticking 8-13’ w/ worms gold hook split shot, tight to the bottom.
some nice 11” fish ?

A few days with Mark and John Walleye fishing. Saturday we had a lot of boats on the lake but Sunday was much nicer. More wind on Sunday but a few less walleyes. We had a bunch of walleyes in 12 to 16 fow over short weeds on slip bobbers and a leech. Thanks guys was a lot of fun fishing with you. I got days open though the end of October.

Adam was in the boat this morning for 4 hours walleye fishing in a big not so deep lake. We caught are walleye’s on slip bobbers and a leech in 12 to 14 fow over short weeds. They were biting well, we caught a lot and a bunch of bass. I have days open. Thanks Adam I had fun watching you catch fish.

Had John in the boat today for 6 hours walleye fishing on a big not so deep lake. We caught around 30 nice Walleye’s, 20 bass 2 nice blue gills and a perch. Fish came on slip bobbers and a leech in about 12 fow over weeds. I have days open in July through the end of October. Thanks John it was a great day.