St. Louis River Fishing Report

We’re wide open!  Hard to believe that it took until the middle of May to say that…  The ice finally left Chequamegon Bay last week, and we are officially open for business on all of our water in northwest Wisconsin.  As expected, the smelt run came and went in a hurry, and every kind of…

I’m not breaking news that it’s been a LONG winter.  Recovering from shoulder surgery in January didn’t make it any easier, and my cabin fever is at an all time high.  We’ve also been preparing to launch our new web site over the past several weeks, and there hasn’t been a whole lot to report other than…

We needed a cool down, and we got it.  After a few nasty days of rain and wind in northern, Wisconsin I was back in the boat with long time customers and friends Greg Lewis and Tim Thompson from Mason City, IA on Saturday.  Funny thing is that we've never actually got to fish together…

It's hard to beat the St. Louis River walleye bite this time of year when it's right.  After a couple of "off" years, it seems to be right again.  I was back there on Monday.  Bill Noreus (Zachary, LA) and Fred Power (Tampa, FL) returned for their annual trip and brought along a new partner…

This Chequamegon Bay thing is getting to be a habit…  I like it!  Darrell Wilkinson (Tulsa, OK), his son Jordan (Madison, WI), and brother Sonny (Shreveport, LA) were back with me on Monday for day #2 of their trip fishing out of The River Rock Inn in Ashland.  We arrived at the landing with completely…

It's finally feeling like summer around here…  Better late than never!  The Lloyd family was back in town for their annual trip in the Hayward Lakes area, and I spent Monday with cousins Will Lloyd from Downers Grove, IL and Grayson Murtagh from Roselle, IL.  This is a good bunch of people.  Will has fished with…

Big rains hit northern, Wisconsin on Monday, and we dodged a bullet.  Greg and Geralyn Miller from “The Hunt With Greg & Jake” were scheduled for our annual trip to celebrate Geralyn’s birthday, and we had to delay the start of our day due to thunderstorms that unexpectedly rolled through.  We hit the water about…

Opportunities are abundant right now in northern Wisconsin, and typical late spring patterns are starting to set up for all species.  I fished out of Angler’s Haven on Monday and had a fun bunch of guys in some interesting weather conditions.  Paul Jacobsma (Omaha, NE) and Mike Burrill (Iowa City, IA) had the a.m. shift…

Nobody likes a “Know It All”, but I knew it!!!  Our incredibly warm March weather turned out to be fools gold, and Mother Nature has definitely had a change of heart.  The joke is on us, and it looks more like February around here than April.  Fresh snow and cool temps have slowed the ice…

It took awhile, but we were finally able to squeeze all of the areas we fish into a report.  Man it’s hot out there…  I don’t have any stats to back it up, but this has to be one of the warmest summers we’ve had in quite some time.  My good friends Cory McClure (Plymouth,…