After a wonderful week of walleye fishing here at Big Rock Resort, we’re are starting to see the fall patterns come around. Perch fishing is starting to pick up, all of our guests that were here this past week had perch on their minds and on the ends on their lines.
The week started off great, weather was in the mid 60’s during the day, and low 40’s at night, with light winds. As the week progressed so did the wind, mid week we had steady 20-25mph winds out of the North West and West with gusts over 30mph despite the wind our guests still braved the lake and had some nice stringers of perch. Not any one day limits yet, but the size of the fish are improving each day. Our guess have been mostly fishing Uran and Miller bays, with some fish being caught in Sucker Bay and the Walker Narrows. Walleyes continue to be caught with crank baits on the mid lake reefs, and are now starting to show up on the shallow wind blown rock points, get your jig’s and minnow’s ready, hot fall walleye action is not far off.
The 45th annual Frank Schneider Memorial Muskie Tournament was a big hit this year, 118 muskies were caught across the 21 area lakes included in the tournament. The biggest being 53″ caught on Lake Plantagenet, near Bemidji. The biggest northern caught was 39″.
We had a few cabins that participated in the muskie tourney, Jim Gugin from Oconomowoc, Wi an owner here at the resort was fishing with his brother Jeff managed to boat 2 muskies while fighting the very windy conditions here on Leech. Jim finished in 36th place with his 48 incher that he caught Saturday afternoon, he caught the fish on a buck tail in Portage Bay. Jim’s second muskie was just under the required 40″ mark, a beautiful fish regardless. Great job Jim!
The Cabela’s North American Bass Circuit was a success also, with 51 boats competing.
The father-and-son team of Bernie and Brad Ksionek had a 18.72 pound, 5 fish limit to win top honors and $10,400 in cash.
Big fish for tourney Chris Groh & Jim Schmehl – 5.96 lbs.
I’d like to thank everyone who has read and commented on our new fishing report, We’ll do our best here to keep up to date info and reports for everyone.
Until next time,
Keep your hooks sharp, my filet knife is ready. Come see us at Big Rock Resort.
Ray.
I have thoroughly enjoyed your fishing reports! Wish we were there to share in the fun and excitement. Keep up the great job, Ray!
very good fish report Ray only problem is we are not there to enjoy the fun… have fun cleaning all those perch course you’re a pro at it and it won’t take you very long at all keep up on the good reports and take care