June 12, 2008 at 8:46 a.m.
Seasons and fish both transition
Seasons and fish both transition
I spoke with the folks at Frankie's Live Bait and Marine this morning about our area lakes and how they've been fishing lately. Brad reported that the panfish bite is phenomenal with sunfish extremely active under and around docks as well as the inside weedlines.
If you head out in search of bass, try throwing a jig and worm or Texas-rigged worm along the weedlines, or cast crankbaits out on the gravel bars. Throwing top-water baits into the lily pads during low-light periods can be quite productive, too.
Although the walleyes begin to scatter a bit and move to deeper water this time of year, they are by no means impossible to catch. Work the soft-to-hard bottom transition zone in 18-24 feet of water, pulling live bait rigs or suspend a jumbo leech under a slip-bobber.
Needle Point on South Center Lake and the area around Nelson's Island on North Center Lake have given up fish during the evening hours. Pulling leech rigs or night crawlers behind a floating spinner rig are time-tested summer approaches.
Anglers are catching crappies in fairly high numbers as well. Keep your eyes on your electronics to find suspended schools of actively feeding fish. Beginning in mid to late June, crappies tend to spread out somewhat throughout a lake's main basin. Look at water near the A-frame and Eagles' Nest to hold fish above 20 feet of water. Typically, the crappies will suspend from near the bottom up to ten feet below the surface, occupying a sizeable portion of the water column. Small leeches and minnows used with light flu-flu jigs under slip-bobbers are catching numbers of crappies this time of year.
Good luck and I'll see you on the water.
Dan Brown's weekly outdoor column is brought to you by Frankie's Bait and Marine, in Chisago City, and St. Croix Outdoors, in St. Croix Falls, Wis.
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