Near the marsh in Fond du Lac. Perch and walleye being taken with “Gillespie rigs”. Placing a sinker about 1-2 feet up the line and dragging crawlers along the bottom. Most eyes are in the 10-14” range, along with some jumbo perch. Presentation needs to be very slow.
Heavy perch action near the Willow’s resort (or just south of Wendt’s on the west shore). Sunday had about 35 boats working the area with hit and miss luck. Most boats fishing slip bobbers tight to the bottom in about 13’ of water. Dead sticking also worked well here for perch. I worked the area for eyes, and did not produce any in a short stay using spinner horse head jigs and twister tails. .
Fraction Island area producing some average sized smallies along with some very small large mouth bass. There seems to be a healthy population of bass in the 3-7” range in this area.
Trolling reports are absent, as I did not see anyone trolling this weekend nor did I attempt with all of the floating vegetation.
Fisherman’s landing. Some nice sized perch are being picked up about a mile directly west of the launch. Walleyes are slow on the surrounding reefs. Gold hooks with a small green bead just above the hook worked well here.
Pete’s: A couple reports of large numbers of perch taken here, in some cases limits. Again slip bobbers with about a 1/5 of a crawler tight to the bottom. ½ crawlers or more were not producing as many fish as the hooks with smaller amounts of crawler/worm.
Just a hunch, but with as many 2-5” sheeps, bass, walleyes being caught, there must be a smorgasbord of food for the bigger walleye. This is my guess why things are so slow for walleyes right now. It is going to be an awesome fishery for the next 10 years with these kinds of number of young fish,
