Fox River:

The Fox is still producing some walleyes and perch through out the Oshkosh area.  Walleyes are more active on crawlers or leeches in the river, rather than the minnows.  Perch are still found under the 41 bridge, Sunset Point and the Rainbow Park area.

 

Buttes Des Mortes:

Trolling worked well here all week.  The best results were on Berkley Flicker Shads (in pearl white) trolled behind the boards 17 feet, at 1.8 mphs.  Sizes varied from 11”-24”.

 

Sunset Point has walleye action, especially with leechs under slip bobbers.

 

Lake Winneconne:

 

There is a nice school of fish on the east end of the lake near the red buoy.  Trolling at 1.8-2.2 mphs worked best with blue shad raps, rainbow colored thunder sticks and perch colored minnow baits working the best.  Chrome and black colored baits, worked exceptional well also.  Once you find the school location, circle it hard, as they seemed to be schooled up.  The Winneconne Bridge also produced some very nice sized fish from the bridge this week.  Slip bobbers up next to the cane also worked.

 

Lake Winnebago:

The water clarity was reduced greatly for most of the week and fishing suffered greatly.  The weekend waters cleared up and the fishing improved.

 

The mouth of the Fox was giving up good numbers of walleyes.  Jigs and minnow here as the water temps are decidedly lower here than in the river.  Kalabus reef was also producing eyes on jigs and minnows.  Crank baits also worked here.

 

East Shore:  There are good numbers of eyes moving up on the reefs around the Pipe area.  Gary Parson won the PWT here, with his amateur casting Flicker shads in gold on the reef tops, and he was using an aggressive jig/minnow horizontal retrieve.  Also check the shallows in this area at dust with crank baits.  Perch are present in good numbers also.

 

Third reef is offering a mixed bag of fish, including a lot of white bass.  Jigs and slip bobbers are most common method of attracting fish.  Walleyes tend to be in the 10-16” range.

 

Lakeside Park continues to produce plenty of (smallmouth, largemouth and White) bass and pan fish.

The bite continues to be focused on the reefs, and mud trolling bite has not started to heat up yet.