It’s that time of year…

Fishing is getting good on the SRCL, Bass are hitting anything shallow, Walleyes should begin putting on the feedbags over the next weeks weeks…was out last weekend and even though the weather sucked, fish were still biting…This recent cooldown should send the water temps falling and fish biting.

2 Inches of snow here and 22 degrees.

Better get them docks out, ice is a coming!

Nah, supposed to be 60 degrees on Sunday…I’m rigging up a winch system that can hopefully pull in the lifts by itself..everything comes out of the water in 2-3 weeks…it’s primetime fishing right now…

Took my last serious fishing vacation days of the year Mon & Tues, biggest Walleye was a 26.5 incher (released) lost 2 others that were significantly bigger! (It’s tough to keep those larger fish hooked when they head shake like that!) Caught a few Northerns over 7 lbs, It makes me feel good about the long term outlook of the SRCL when fish that big continue to swim and reproduce…Also did some extensive exploring with the underwater camera, lots of trees all over the place on the bottom of Ceder Island, cool stuff! I definately have some new spots to check out when the water freezes..

With this little warm up you might get back out there on soft water yet. Things are looking great through the end of the week.

Thanks for the report.

indeed, but my boat is now in storage and all the docks & lifts are out of the water…getting the portable fish house and sled all ready to go…Had good luck with big Walleyes this fall, best I’ve seen in years on the chain…

My guess is those big walleyes will be right where you left them come first ice.

I don’t mess with early ice, especially on the chain with it’s current.. I venture out in mid/late december

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I don’t mess with early ice, especially on the chain with it’s current.. I venture out in mid/late december

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I hear ya’. Nobody needs to lose a father/brother/husband over a few fish.

Which boat ramp do your use? I live in Buffalo, had thought of doing a fall run, the chain is about 45min. to hour away.

It’s my opinion that the HW71 launch on Ceder Island is the best, it has more space to back up your rig and is plenty deep. The HW22 launch has current which can make loading a bit of a pain, plus it hasn’t been plowed in many years so it has tons of ruts in the gravel…