any advice on slooww fishing right now

[mrpike1973]

i have basically struck out on the last 3 weeks of fishing. been fishing for bass and sunnies and cant get no where any advice are they deep live bait only any help would be great

[mainbutter]

I'd say change the lake you're on. That was my problem when I couldn't find sunnies in spring, apparently I chose to target the only lakes in MN that weren't full of them. If you can't see them at the dock at the public access on a wind-less day, go somewhere else.

As for bass. two weeks ago during the HOT HOT weather we got, I found a few bass in the same places I've been finding them all year: 5 FOW and around the weed beds.

[mrklean]

im in a bit of a funk right now as well, i keep changing up where im going, maybe try going for eyes or pike or something

[dairyman]

try using live bait---minnows,crawlwers---thats what I have been doing---got my limit of crappies on saturday-----nothing really big--but they were sure good eating

[Fisherman45]

If the lake you are on has low water levels move out from where you would normally fish. For Bass I have been having a lot of luck lately throwing top water at shallows 0-5' and crank baits at medium 6-10' and senkos deeper weed edges 10-15' with dropshoting on humps and submerged weed beds 16'-20'. Been working pretty much everywhere I have tried pretty consistently. It seems like if I am catching bass the sunnies aren't too far away.

[ozzie]

I have been hitting sunnies pretty good in the weed cover and usually find crappies and bass in the same areas.....plastics and live bait have been working.....i only use plastics but watched guys with live bait do decent also

[Sonicrunch]

my advice to you, is to start drinking heavily

[RumRiverRat]

Fish the rivers.

The Mississippi and Rum have lots of hungry Smallies that are absolutely murdering most lures.

[PEATMOSS]

Road trip. Take a big wide brush and paint a swath from Grand Rapids thru Bemidji, Park Rapids and over to the Alex/DL area. Pick about any small lake off the beaten path a bit and you'll catch bass. If this doesn't work, sorry, take up golf.

[GlassEyeangler]

can't tell where you are located in the state?! if you are south of the Twin Cities...start cleaning your rifle/shotgun for hunting season, as it's going to be slow from now until the end of August for sunnies. never been a bass kind of guy myself, so i'm no help there!

time to head Up Nort!

[fishgutz77]

Thats odd cause right now fish have the feed bag on due to water temp and higher metabolims.

What lake are you fishing, no one can really help you until you give us some info.

pike are deep seeking cold water.

walleyes are night feeding on mid lake schools of bait fish.

Muskies will start the night feeding in August.

big sunnies and bass will be on the deepest weeds in the lake during the day.

Dog daze does not mean slow fishing only fisherman stuck in old modes.

[mrpike1973]

i live near hutchinson mn i fish stella manuella and ripley lakes mostly sunnies and i cast for anything

[KyleM.]

In the last alot of the lakes I've fished in I've done well on big sunnies in 8-11 fow 6 inches to 1 ft off bottom using small chunk of night crawler and decent split shot 4-6 inches up. (Fox, Mazaska, Circle, Shields, French, and Cannon Lake all same thing fyi)

The key was using ultralight w/ light line and size 6 hook or even ice jig vertical off side of boat let them tap it, then give them some time or even drop to bottom as if lindy rigging (big ones bite softer lol).

K now I gave out the secret... k...quid pro quo.

Where in the heck are the walleyes??? I've struck out for 2 weeks straight lindy rigging in deep to shallow water, casting and trolling cranks in 6-20 fow and casting jigs off of breaks and what seems like everything i can think of aside from dynamite. anybody wanna throw me an idea? (main focus is on shields lake, easiest for me to get out to)

[deadeye]

Fish the rivers.

The Mississippi and Rum have lots of hungry Smallies that are absolutely murdering most lures.

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[PTocko]

Can only speak to Prior as that's my "home" lake. We found nice sunnies this weekend in 12-16 feet of water on "humps" of weeds. What I mean by "hump" is I was basically looking for the weedline but with some space between the clumps of weeds so literally on the VERY edge. Fish were suspending 2-3 feet off the bottom. Fish were so close togther that you weren't marking individual fish but would see the entire school as a group of fish in tight with the weeds. We were slip bobber fishing and my 5 year old son was slaying them. Crappies and walleyes have me a bit stumped at the moment but will probably look for some of those this weekend. I'm guessing both are deeper - crappies suspended and wallyes on the bottom near anything that looks like structure but I'm by no means an expert. Hope this helps. Paul

[paceman]

Up here in my neck of the woods I have been slaying the crappies by fishing shoreline weedlines, actually shallower than you would expect. 10-12'. I am trolling small plastics. I am catching northerns, bass, sunnies as well. getting limits of nice crappies pretty much every outing.

[broken_line]

RIVER!

[hydro]

halffast boater....HeHehe!