Lake Winnebago (all postings)

Fished on the west side off Kalbus. Lots off small walleyes again. caught 11 or 12 eyes and did not break the 14" mark. Fish really like the salmo hornets.

Anybody else seeing pics on this thread that look like they have been digitally enhanced. No worries cody it's just a coincidence that i'm posting right after your report. Those are some nice eyez your holding up with your fists. LOL

Was out on west side mud all this week and have had amazing fishing. I have landed 18 fish over 20 inches including a 7.8 pound 27 inch walleye and a 6.4 26 inch walleye. These are DePere/bay sized eyes. I was trolling harnesses in 17 to 19 fow 28 to 32 feet behind the board. Sunday we had a three man limit in 3 hours. Best bite I have seen is right away in the morning. The mud bite is hot right now. Kicking myself for not fishing the battle on bago tourney as I would of had over 25 lbs with my five biggest fish and would of had big fish for the whole tourney. But who knows if i would have fished the same way that morning. When you line up with 100 boats and launch its hard to stick to your game plan. Also, I caught a beautiful 20 inch Sauger. Every time I take someone out we get our limit and fast. Finding out its all about attention to small detail. I was running 1.1 to 1.3 mph tops. Heading out tomorrow am again before work.

Great time this evening in pursuit of smallmouth bass. Sixth or seventh stop finally found them and figured 'em out. 18 legal, 18" largest. Variety of soft plastics. Man oh man that onshore wind at sunset really moved the water around in a hurry.

Tore up the top of my right index finger removing the lure from so many big bass with 10 grit teeth. First time this year - seems I always have to be reminded each year to use the hemostats and not my thumb and index finger.

fished tues. night. 8 eyes including 5# er. On another note. Looking for fishing partners out of osh. I am retired and can fish couple days a week along with doing other chores. Looking for someone who loves to fish as much as i do and can share bait and expenses and is easy to get along with. Have all equip. needed or can take turns if you have a boat. please mbx if interested. fish-i

The mud bite is definitely doing well off Brothertown. Tonight I got a 1 man limit 2 - 2.5 miles out of Brothertown Harbor in a little over 2 hours. 3 - 17"s, 19", and a 20". The hot bait was a gold and orange Winning Streak about 14 feet down and moving around 2 mph.

Took my parents and my son out yesterday evening for a few hours and ended with 13 walleyes (14-16") and three nice crappies (two of them were still full of eggs). Trolled a couple reefs on the west side and all had walleyes present. We just had to figure out what cranks they would eat. Caught fish high and low in the column. Flickershads and hot n tots worked equally well.

We had to call it quits early because the rough seas got to be too much for the family. Perfect conditions if I was by myself, but with company in the boat not so nice. Anyone ever hear of an accurate wind forecast? Just curious. I have a couple different weather apps and they all suck.

That being said, I hope the strong south winds hold up in the forecasts. That should boost the mud bite. Northeast winds can go away and come back next spring.

Planning a late Father's Day trip here tomorrow morning and just wondering if we'd be better off trolling the east side or reefs on the west side. We were thinking the Blackbird (?) reef area. Any tips would be great. Thanks!

Fished around Long Point reef last night from 4 - 8:30. 4 Walleyes (12"-15") 2 Perch (11") and a few Crappies. About 8 other species of fish caught as well. Slip bobbers and jiggin in about 6 feet of water with crawlers. Did move about 5 different times. Rough ride on the way back to the east side until we got about a mile from shore.

It was a real treat to fish bago for a few hours with my kids (fathers day boys outing) as my younger boy landed this 25" walleye! We caught more walleyes from 15 to 17 inches, crappies and a perch while trolling the mud off the east shore north of Pipe in 17 feet of water. Flicker Shads, Thundersticks, Shad Raps and Walleye Divers all caught some fish 81 to 131 feet behind the boards trolling at 1.9 mph. Back to work on the big lake for us. Have fun and good luck fishing!

Trolled the mud out of stockbridge yesterday again. fished 0600 until 1330. 3 man limit of eyes countless sheeps and 2 dozen whitebass. Gold and red cranks. got a few on floating cranks and harnesses on the downriggers as well. first time running my downriggers out there wont be the last. biggest eye was 21.

Fished the mud this morning trolling harnesses from 7am to 11am. 12 eyes from 13" to 24". 1 oz inline back 20 to 30 feet Purple and blue blades fished stopped and once i ran of crawlers. Was able to pick one more up on small deep diving Salamo Perch color back 75.

Time to go to work

Good luck out there

slow fishing yesterday morning on the south end at the traditional spots so i anchored next to one of the artificial reefs on the south end,got crappie, bluegill, lmb, bullhead and sheephead all jigging. have never tried using these artificial reefs before.

fished on sunday from 2 til 8. tried shallow weeds but got nothing. few other spots nothing but sheeps. then anchored 100 yds from garlic island to get out of the wind and found more sheeps with perch and crappie mixed in. they hit on minnows and crawlers under a bobber and jigging on bottom. about 14 ft deep. one of the perch was still full of eggs.

Went out on Saturday for the first time ever. Caught around 40 fish but only one eye. Tons of white bass and sheep head. Also caught one 31 inch pike that we ended up keeping because it swallowed the flicker shad and it died on us. We trolled the west shoreline in about 10-12 feet.

fished out in front of the mouth of the river in menasha by jefferson, went out to four feet of water with weeds and put on bobber and leech and proceded to pound cat fish - nothing under 25" all monster channels. released them all. i dont think i went 15 min without one. need to just get right out side the mouth so you only have a little current pulling on bobbers, not much. go out the mouth to left or right and fish about 150 yards off shore. little current and weeds are key as they are spawning and eating all the carp eggs hopefully