Well the weather is heating up and so is the fishing. We had a great week. My fishing team won the multispecies event. Crappies were hitting and we did well on them, our bass and bluegills.

The crappies were in 4-6 feet of water and not overly agressive. You had to slip bobber them, with plain hooks and crappie minnows. We were missing fish when hooking the minnows thru the lips, but a good trick to use, that worked for us again, is to hook them thru the dorsal fin or tail. Crappies love em and if they are not staying on the hook, it's up to you to figure out how to improve the odds. We did and connected with solid hooksets after that little adjustment.

The bluegills are spawning and using the bass beds when they can get them. The bass are done spawning and putting the feed bags on. Bass can be caught most any place now and are interested in biting most anything too. Try plastics on docks, weed edges, mostly shallow, but they are moving to the mid depths already.

The bluegills and warmouths are spawning in the shallow, 1-2 feet of water on sand and will bite anything near them. You can get some nice ones right now. But we released everything to keep the fishing at good levels.

Pike have been slower than expected on and off. But they are still taking spoons and spinners trolled and pitched to good weeds, so don't forget them, that's some awesome fishing.

Good fishing and hope to see ya on the water.

Minnesota Fishing Guide.com