Crawford County Fishing Report September 3, 2009
The Mississippi River “spiked” last week at 7.7 feet. During this past week the river has slowly settled down and was at 7.1 feet Monday. The forecast for the Mississippi River is to remain steady. Water clarity is very good. The Wisconsin and Kickapoo Rivers have settled down and are in good shape. The sand bars on the Wisconsin River are in great shape for camping. All trout streams in the area are in good shape with normal flow and water clarity is good. Bluegill action was spotty this week. Even so, some nice-sized bluegill were taken in the shallower portions of wing dams closest to the main channel. The Ambro Slough complex has produced some fish in deeper water snags or weed beds. The most popular bait has been a chunk of night crawler or garden worms. Fishing at Cold Spring continues to be slow. Perch fishing was slow again this week. Walleye and sauger action was fair. Generally the early morning hours and later in the day has been the best for walleye action especially during the weekends when recreational boating traffic is the heaviest. Trolling and casting crank baits or drifting with live bait is the primary method of taking walleyes. Night crawlers and leeches have worked well, but some live bait anglers are switching to minnows. Smallmouth and largemouth bass action remains good. Smallmouth were found on closing dams and wing dams or rock shorelines on the Main Channel. Largemouth bass were found in a variety of habitats to include the “slop”, weed edges, wing dams, and in the timber. Plastics, spinner baits, and crank baits have worked well. Channel cat action remains good, but flathead action for some is slow. A variety of live baits have produced cats. Move around until active fish are located. Sheepshead are very active. All you need is a chunk of night crawler fished off the bottom. White bass and northern pike action was spotty. Watch for surface feeding white bass and work those areas. Northern pike have been taken near the sewer treatment plant on the Ambro Slough in the Prairie du Chien area. Many popular bass baits have worked well for northerns including spinner baits and plastic top water baits. Trout fishing has been very good. Some of the vegetation is starting to die back along the streams. Many local streams produced some very nice brown and brook trout. The past couple days have been very cool, especially in the evening. Deer flies and wasps are out in large numbers during the day. Mosquitoes are really a problem in the river bottoms while the deer flies are in the wooded areas all day and night, even with the cool weather.
Door County Fishing Report September 3, 2009
Mostly cloudy to partly cloudy days with cool temperatures and showers, along with moderate to strong winds, made for less than ideal weather conditions this week. Poor weather conditions and rough seas made for only fair action out on Lake Michigan. Most of the salmon action was to be found along the edges of the bank reef in 90 to 120 feet of water. Chinook salmon are starting to move into the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal and a few have been taken by shore anglers and anglers fishing from the piers at the Coast Guard station. A few northern pike were being taken along the channel in the area between the bridges in the Bay of Sturgeon Bay, as well as Little Sturgeon, Riley’s Bay, Sand Bay and Sawyer Harbor. Walleye action was slow to fair. Henderson Point, Sherwood Point, the Sturgeon Bay flats and Dunlap Reef, as well as well as the area around Horseshoe Island all produced a few fish. Crawler harnesses and crank baits seem to be the best for walleyes. Smallmouth bass fishing was fair throughout the county. Little Sturgeon, Riley’s Bay and Sand Bay produced a few fish. Plastics, spinner baits, crank baits along with some top waters all produced a few fish when fished along weed edges and over rock piles. Perch fishing was fair to good along weed edges and the can line in Sturgeon Bay as well as off of Chaudoir’s dock. Minnows and night crawlers are the baits of choice for perch.Strawberry Creek Spawning Facility - There is a lot of activity out at the Strawberry Creek Weir this month as DNR fisheries staff is preparing the facility for this fall’s salmon harvest. Current work includes a major rebuild of the salmon processing infrastructure. The chinook salmon that will be spawning this fall have started to turn dark. The females are getting “plump” and the eggs are developing quickly. Males are starting to develop the characteristic hooked jaw or “kype.” Chinook salmon are expected to start entering Strawberry Creek within the next couple of weeks. These early run fish are usually not ripe and crews typically don’t capture fish ready for spawning until early October. The Lake Michigan water level is up approximately 8 inches over last year. At this time crews are planning to use the pump and pipeline to supplement the flow in Strawberry Creek but probably won’t be turning the pump on until approximately October 1. Predicting the timing of the first chinook harvest at Strawberry Creek this far ahead is difficult because weather, especially rainfall events, play a big role in salmon spawning runs. However, it is very likely that by Monday, October 5, crews will be actively harvesting chinook at Strawberry Creek and collecting eggs for the Wisconsin hatchery program. Once spawning begins, Mondays are generally scheduled for harvest days at Strawberry Creek so October 12 and 19 are also likely harvest days.
Fishing Report From Wisconsin DNR
Marinette County Fishing Report - September 3, 2009
The Peshtigo River mouth is seeing a flurry of activity for smallmouth bass on small spoons and spinners. The salmon have been biting in the Little River area around dusk. Anglers have been fishing on the bottom with spawn sacks and casting cleo’s. The Menominee River is giving up a mixed bag of walleye and smallmouth bass from the dam to the turn basin with live bait and lures both working well. Anglers have been fishing the Lighthouse Pier and the Government Pier for salmon and trout. Spoons are the preferred lures.
Fishing Report From Wisconsin DNR.
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