Fat Guy Powell

Fished "the Rock " on Saturday amongst the traffic. Did a lot of trolling with shad raps. Caught a bizillion whitebass. Well, I lost count around 35. Walleyes weren't as willing, I boated 2 short guys I am assuming due to the amount of rec traffic on the lake that day. If you haven't caught a whitebass while trolling, WOW. WHAT A FIGHT!!!!

Cooter, we got rain today!!!! Took some clients out today on a walleye/smallmouth trip on Lake Wissota. For some reason it took me two hours to locate the hungry eyes this morning, but we did locate them...the only problem was they were running pretty small. Most fish came on firetiger shad raps on lead core line. I know firetiger sounds pretty generic, but my go-to colors were not panning out at all this morning. We stopped on a good concentration of walleyes and picked up a few eater walleyes before it started raining, a rain in which we still caught fish, including a catfish around the 8 pound mark. The bite stopped after the rain ended and we turned our attention to smallmouth. The smallmouth were raring to go! As we kept busy with the smallies during an even harder rain. One client hooked into this beauty of a channel cat. I am guessing right around 15 pounds. Good day all together. Smallmouth and catfish made up for a strange walleye bite today. The water is pea green right now. Back at her tomorrow night. Hope to see you all out on the water!

You can always start with a #7 JSR Firetiger. Universal walleye killer.

Don't overlook the possibility of trolling cranks, as this can also be very effective on Holcombe. With so many ups and downs in the lake, any place is a good place to start. There are some pig walleyes in Holcombe, too, good luck!

Hey Cooter cats still poppin just about everything you throw at them. Would really like to go out after them some morning, won't be til at least the weekend after next. We can go hit em up in the evening one of these nights if you want. Hotter the day the better! (As long as it's not 95 degrees!) Out last night for a little more of the same. First fish of the day caught by my 9 year old daughter Audrey, a 30" pig northern! What a thrill for a 9 year old girl. She almost teared up! Walleyes were still biting, didn't seem to be a preference between leeches and crawlers, but the fish we caught last night ran bigger than Sunday night. Many slot fish, but nothing over. Biggest 16 1/2". Fun night all together with a few incidental nice gills in the mix. Maybe back out tomorrow night. These beautiful nights on Lake Wissota never get old

Sorry Ace, I just saw your post now, haven't been on in a couple weeks. What a BEAUTIFUL night!!! No wind, upper 70's, not much for recreational traffic, calm water...Did I mention hungry walleyes? 19 boated total from 6 pm til dark. Also 5 rock bass and 2 bluegills. One bluegill right around 10 pm..weird, but not unheard of. Trolled for the first two hours, and boated one measly shaker. I changed up and started pitching jigs along the shoreline..BAM! I couldn't ask for a more beautiful night, I really did not want it to end!

Here is a little report from Wissota. Catfish are HOT right now, and can be taken by pretty much anything you throw at them. The big ones are there, but the fiddlers will keep you busy! Using mainly crawlers for them the other night gave consistent action. I will be spending a little more time targeting them in the coming weeks. Did a multi species guide trip in the down pour this morning. It rained on and off all morning. We found the eyes on the weedbeds, jig and a leech was the ticket this morning. Got enough for a decent meal. No overs this morning, and one 17" slot fish. One incidental fiddler cat as well. We chased some smallmouth to finish out the day. The conditions on the lake were getting worse, but Jack managed to produce this little scrapper on the Mimic Minnow. The guys had a great time despite the conditions. Fish cleaned and delivered. I am glad to be home and dry. Now I am ready to take a nap. Looks like decent weather for the upcoming week. Can't wait to get back out on the water!

There are some really nice eyes in there, too if you can locate them. I am going to try and split time this summer between Altoona and Wissota

I had 66 degrees when I was there last weekend. Right now the boat is in the shop, and the wife is working late all week, so, no fishing for me this weekend, probably won't be til next weekend now

Took a friend and his daughter to Altoona last night, just fishing for whatever bites. We caught quite a few perch, some real jumbos. Still catching them fairly shallow, on crawlers, or peglegs. Nothing taking the minnows last night. One short walleye was caught, never got a chance to try and troll for them last night, as my buddy's little girl was having way too much fun with the perch. Which is what it's all about!!!

Took a trip over to Otter lake the other day in search of the wiley bluegill. And found them we did! We caught some smaller gills out further from shore, and the big boys (8"+) tight to shore. We did the best on a Flirty Girty tipped with a waxie. Kept 16 biggens. Way to windy to try fly fishing on this day, maybe next time

Call me crazy for asking this, but anyone catching any whitebass?

Yeah, they should be prime then!

Haven't been out for cats on purpose yet this year, but I am getting the itch. They should be picking up right about now and be goo til August with the peak in early to mid July. Can't wait to target them! We have had some great success the past few years. Note from admin, please read forum policy before posting again. Thank you. Cooter if you wanna go chase a few cats this summer let me know! What a Memorial Day weekend! Though we had a hatch on Friday, walleyes are pretty hot right now, and can be caught on a variety of presentations. Smaller jigs are producing nice walleye. When I say nice, I mean, quite a few slot walleyes. The smallmouth are on the upturn as well, the river has been producing some that are quite nice. I got this hog on a jig tipped with a Gulp Alive Minnow. Funny thing happened tonight while fishing the river. As I was approaching some shallow water, I heard what I thought may have been a train, but could not remember any railroad tracks nearby, I turned my head to find the biggest swarm of mosquito's I have ever seen! Had to be a million of those little pests! And since I was fishing alone I had left the first aid kit in the Envoy which contained the repellent. I thought to myself, "Has anyone ever been killed by a huge swarm of mosquitoes??" Just when they came close to the boat, I decided I wasn't going to stick around and find out! I hit the motor and called it a night, and a beautiful night it was!

The fish we found were in about 15 FOW a few feet off the bottom. May try at them again later this week. Good luck if you go!

Back at her this morning with Dad, looking for a nice batch of crappies, and man did we get into some nice fish. We started fishing around 8:30 am, and by 11:00 we had a dozen big slabs. After that they pretty much shut off. We did get a few incidental pike, walleye, and smallmouth. By 2:00 we called it a day. What a beautiful day to be out. A nice dinner of beer battered crappie tonight and I am stuffed after only a couple of fillets!

Thanks man, here area few more for you! I took a couple of clients on Wissota on Saturday, what a windy day!! Very rough going, hard to fish the areas we planned on. All went well, however, with a little improvisation. We tried up from Anson for smallmouth, which didn't seem to be cooperating so well today until Bob hooked into this nice little football on a Rogue. Moving on, we tried for pike in the shallow water down from Anson. Bob made good right away on a big spinner with nice pike. Looks like something got a hold of this guy!!! We messed around a little more for smallmouth, and later for walleyes, in which we boated a few that would be nice eaters, but we released to be caught another day. Wrapping things up we took another stab at the pike, and Mike struck first catching this guy on a Kastmaster. We were faced with some tough conditions today, but we made the best out of it. Ended the night catching a few decent crappies, as the wind died down. Good day on the water, no matter how you look at it.

Jig and a minnow did most of the damage, East of 27

Went and hit Holcombe this morning with the oldest, just to see what we could find, and the answer was walleyes! Within the first 5 minutes of fishing Audrey put 2 in the livewell and one slot fish, while Dad still hadn't even caught a fish! He made up for it though. We caught somewhere between 20-30 walleyes, keeping 5, and only one crappie. Bite was pretty steady til 11 am, then everything shut off. What a beautiful day to be out. Here is Audrey with her slot fish from this morning, and a couple of nice eyes (don't mind the dirt)

Out tonight just messing around, had the kids along. Targeting walleyes, and we got into a nice little batch of them, just tossing a jig and a minnow (all released). Fishing with very light jigs on ultralite rods. At the end of the night I hooked into nice little kitty who gave me a tussle on that 4 lb test line. Audrey made the assist with the net, good job kid!

Back at it tonight, and the wind blew harder, and the fish bit harder, too! No problem finding a limit of perch and crappie. Waxies and minnows did the work again, but the bigger fish seemed to like the minnows. After limiting out on panfish I focused on walleyes. I found them, but most were short. Trolled the shoreline, lost one maybe 18", while I was trying hard not to crash my boat, then landed a 22" hog to cap off the night. Great night fishing once again! Sorry, cell phone picture!

What a beautiful day to be out!! That being said..what a great day on the water!!!! Brought the kids out to Altoona this afternoon/early evening, and did awesome on the perch. We fished shallow with waxies and minnows and had a ball catching and keeping 10 nice perch and one nice crappie. Enough for dinner tomorrow night! Wait.. I may be back tomorrow night!

Took the family out on Wissota yesterday afternoon. The Big Lake was a little rough, but we managed to have some fun in the back bays, where the water temperature was at 65 degrees vs 54 on the Big Lake. We caught a few smallmouth, and some slot eyes. Also a northern going 28". Not too bad for a few hours on the water. Will be back soon!

Just to point out, Wissota will once again be changing the daily walleye bag limit to 2 fish until further notice