The last two weeks were a roller coaster with weather fronts and near record low high temps and nightly lows that caused frost in the area. This was my prelude of excuses to say the hot bite has cooled, but not gone completely cold. Instead, anglers have had to stay out on the water a bit longer, which is never a bad thing given the 95% wilderness shoreline on the TFF.
I/16 and 1/8 oz weedless jigs continue to produce when tipped with a 1/2 crawler or large fathead minnow for walleye and smallmouth. Water depths have varied throughout the day from 3′-20’depths. Deeper fish are being found in the bend of the old river channels. Slow moving jigs to the point of dead stick has been producing during the tough times.
Gills, crappies and jumbo perch are being taken off of the cribs throughout the day. Fish one for 15 minutes and move to the next if there is no action.
I have nothing to report on the musky action. I’m not saying that they are not hitting, but I have not heard back from any of our musky guides. Sorry that they are as elusive as the fish.
It looks like the weather patterns will stabalize now, so I hope to give a better report next week.
