fishing reports Yellow Lake Fishing Reports near Webster, WI

[Sonnys]

DonBo:

Thanks for your reply. You will have to provide me with your cell phone number so we can connect up when I'm up at Yellow Lake Lodge the week of June 23-30th. Thanks

Sonny

[Jarrid Houston]

I will be up there camping from June 28 through the 1st July. So looking forward to finding some nice fish this year. Last year, we did okay on walleyes, but the blue gill bite was dynamite. Hope to get into them again....Donbo, Ill fill ya in on whats working for us when we are there, maybe we can get together, and talk for a bit..I assume your cell # is the same? aaaawwww 27 more days....

[Jarrid Houston]

Here a few pics of fish we got into last summer:

[DonBo]

Jarrid. Yep, same cell#. New camper's still in the same spot. Be fun to hook up...

[DonBo]

Spotty walleye bite over the weekend. Most fish caught between 10-14 FOW. Fatheads, leeches and crawlers all took fish. Had to sort through a bunch of shorties to find some keepers, and most of those were just barely 15".

The northerns were still pretty active, they've moved just a bit deeper too.

I think the sunfish are not quite ready to spawn yet as they've been hard to pattern lately.

[Sonnys]

Donbo: Read your report on Yellow Lake. Where were you fishing on Big Yellow? North end, South end,East end, West end.

Caught the walleye in 10-14' of water, so they are still close to the

weed line.

Sonny

[DonBo]

Had a great weekend! Got the boat in the water about 4:00 Friday evening and boated the first walleye withing the first 5 minutes. Marked and caught fish from mostly from 15-18 FOW. Ended up sorting through a bunch of 14 inches to come up with 3 keepers. Every one came on crawlers. Not even one bite on leeches. Another boat did well up in 7 FOW after sunset.

Saturday morning was the best trip of the season. We had our 4 in the livewell by 8:30. Again lots of shorts to find the keepers, also released a 22" along the way. My biggest of the season.

Here's a nice 19 incher that came home with us.

This morning everything came from 19 - 20 FOW, again all on crawlers. Later in the day I found and caught fish from 10' all the way to 20+. Guess you just have to fish them where you find them.

Sunday morning fish were again active from 10 - 20 FOW, but I only found one 15+ incher before the wind drove me off the lake. Half the fish today, including my one keeper, came on leeches.

All my fish were caught backtrolling. As is usually the case, look to the shoreline the wind is blowing into.

[DonBo]

Another good day of fishing on Saturday. Caught my two alloted walleyes in pretty short order Saturday afternoon. No need for "primetime" fishing on this day. Marked fish from the weededge all the way into 20+ FOW, but every bite came from 13'. Kept two nice ones, 17 and 18 1/2". All on leeches.

After a major weather change overnight, Sunday was a whole nuther day. Fished for several hours from early morning with only 3 shorts to show for it. Tough day.

Nice to meet Sonny and crew, all the way from Omaha to fish my favorite body of water. They'll be up all week. Good luck!

[DonBo]

Even with the water temps climbing above 80, the fishing remains good. As you can imagine most have moved deeper, but we caught fish from 12 down to 20+ FOW. Not much preference between leeches or crawlers, but you better have both in your boat just in case.

LOTS of shorts to find the keepers. Please, when you've hooked a fish deep that must be released, just cut the line and return to the water immediately. I know, you'll go through a bunch of hooks, but that's a small price to pay for a continued strong walleye population.

[Jarrid Houston]

DB,

Sorry I missed you man. So so busy, I did look for you on the water, but never did see ya. Logged tons of hours starting Thursday night through the whole weekend. Boated countless walleyes (lots of shorts), and some keepers that we kept this year as oppose to last (

[Jarrid Houston]

DB,

Sorry I missed you man. So so busy with friends and family, I did look for you on the water, but never did see ya. Logged tons of hours starting Thursday night through the whole weekend. Boated countless walleyes (lots of shorts), and some keepers that we kept this year as oppose to last (did not keep a fish last year). Our group had a fish fry Saturday night. Fish came on jig leach or worm combos, and or lindy. Caught walleyes as shallow as 4' and as deep as 23' biggest was 23", and also got several of the "eaters". Most fish were the shorts, but nontheless full of action. Also caught some decent bonus fish. 19.5" smally, 24" drum (sheep head), 30" pike, 17" large mouth, and many other of the same and not to be missed some awesome gills, and crappies and perch.. Fishing this year was tremendous, and everyone had a blast catching...Love Yellow! Here are a few pics:

Looking forward to the next trip. Think I am going to try the hard water..

[DonBo]

Sorry I missed ya. Guess I thought you were coming later than this or I would have been looking for you. Yes, fishing has been really good lately. Can't wait to get back up there in a couple more days.

[mpester]

Saturday and Sunday were two of the best days of walleye fishing I have ever had on this lake! I got about 20 on Saturday and most were over keeper sized. I hooked one that was just a hair over 23" but it was bleeding very badly so I kept it.

Sunday I got well OVER 40 walleyes and all but a couple were over the minimum length. I have never hooked more than a few keepers per day on that lake. It was a great day of fishing. I told the wife I would be home by 10 but the fishing was so good I was late and I left the fish biting. I found a three hundred yard long area that was loaded with keepers. At 9AM I said the next pass I went over that area and did not get a fish, I would go home. At noon I had still not made a pass without a fish or two but I had to leave. That was a great day of fishing!

[Jarrid Houston]

M pester, thats cool you found batches of +15"ers. Most of our fish we between 14-15"ers, but did catch several 17-19"ers as well. With the biggest of the weekend being 23". It was great to see walleyes biting in the HOT weather. Fun weekend for sure. Love Yellow Lake...

[Nathan6]

sounds like the walleyes are biting.. does anyone have any reports on how the muskies are doing this year? we are planning a trip for the weekend and hope to try for some muskies as well as walleyes. any help would be appreciated. thanks

[DonBo]

Nathan, I've seen a few musky while fishing the weedlines for walleye. A friend raised one this weekend but I don't follow the reports much. They are out there but sorry, I'm not much help....

The walleye fishing though remains strong, even in the hot weather last week. Fish were caught from 12 - 20+ FOW for me. They are showing a strong preference for leeches lately, but crawlers still put fish in the boat.

One boat did well right up in weeds while targeting sunfish, catching 17 walleye in just a few hours, 5 of which met the 15" minimum.

[Nathan6]

was out there this weekend caught a bunch of walleyes. Not much for muskies only saw one very little one follow.

[rangerforme]

I was out there yesterday, caught 20 eyes in 2 hrs 7 of which were keepers even though we only were able to keep 4 for the 2 of us. All came in 6-7 feet right on the weed edge. I never marked any fish deeper than that, there must have been a few thousand lake shiners flipping around in that area I was in though had the fish going bonkers. All rigging crawlers. Was my first time on the lake, just picked one of the underwater points on the south end and started fishing. That whole north shore looks good though, nice steep break some little turns and points on it!

[DonBo]

Glad to hear the bite is good on the south end as well. Haven't been down that way lately, but might have to give 'er a try.

Hate to have to come home and work while the bite is still going on. Friday can't come soon enough.

[rangerforme]

Donbo,

Do you mainly fish the north shore then? Weeds don't grow real deep out there do they, mostly top off in 5/6 feet of water.

PS - I like how you say 'down there', I'm used to fishing Leech and stuff where 'down there' is a 30 min boat ride, be like 3 minutes on Yellow, haha.

[DonBo]

Donbo,

PS - I like how you say 'down there', I'm used to fishing Leech and stuff where 'down there' is a 30 min boat ride, be like 3 minutes on Yellow, haha.

Ha! My place is WAY up in the NE corner, and my boat only tops out about 22 MPH, so yeah, it actually takes over 5 whole minutes to get way down to the far south end.

(PM sent)

[DonBo]

Mid July. 95 degrees. Water temps in the mid 80's. Flat calm. Perfect walleye weather? It is on Yellow!

Fishing remains strong. Had some family up from out of town and had little trouble taking home limits of nice fish. Most came from right along the edge of the weeds, or in the 15'-17' range. Leeches and crawlers are still working, but better have both because the preference switches (it seems) by the hour.

Colored hooks from red to hot pink or frourecent orange have been my go-to choices.

[DonBo]

Come on guys, I have missed the last two weekends up there.

How about some recent reports.

Anyone? Anyone?

[rangerforme]

DonBo,

PM me again, was good this weekedn, bigger fish as well, 21nin, 20i, 19in the first hour I was there, deeper though, 19-20 ft. The huge sturgeon are jumping all over the place. Like whale watchign, they come all the way out of the water.

[DonBo]

Got some pretty good second hand reports from this last weekend. Seems some larger walleyes are starting to show, one reported at 26". Nice. Also know of a 44" Tiger Musky taken.