Mid-June Trip

[snagger]

I just made reservation at Everett's Resort June 16-20. I'll be coming up with my wife and two young boys. I know Vermillion fairly well but have only fished it in the City Auto Glass Walleye Tourney and in the fall. How is the walleye bite in mid-June? Are the smallies generally done spawning and already transitioned or can they still be found shallow? Thanks for the help.

[FishinCT]

Best time of year for smallies. 100 fish a day potential. Up shallow still and will hit anything you throw at them

[Cliff Wagenbach]

Good time of the year for smallies and walleyes!

Cliff

[partyonpine]

Agree with the Cliff and Ct, we plan our annual men's trip to the cabin on the 2nd weekend in June, best of both worlds the walleyes are still going and crazy, and the small mouth are unbelievable!!

 

[toddrun]

I have also booked a family vacation to Vermilion that same mid-June week, but none of us have been on Vermilion ever, so total greenhorns.  Will have a family group, youngest 17 and oldest 76.  So hoping to find some willing fish to bite our hooks.  Not to hijack that thread here, is panfish fishing (Bluegill, Crappie, Perch) going that time of year also, in the shallow protected bays?  We are staying in Pike Bay, that's why I ask.  Even if the Northern Pike are frisky, that would keep the group busy, even if they are just hammer handles.  Just hoping to keep everyone busy.  To make it easy, I was really looking to find biting fish on slip bobber rigs.  Makes it easier with lots of people in the boat, more so than trolling or rigging, and not sure I want to to the rock pile jigging with this crew either.  Maybe head to Everett's Bay and send some to the casino and the others out with bobbers to find Smallies, Bluegills, Crappies or Perch in the bay.

[10,000 Casts]

The walleye fishing should be great that time of year. depending on the type of spring we have, the only difference between mid may and mid June is that the walleyes might be a little more spread out and they prolly aren't stacked up in the deep holes like they have been during that tournament the last few years. I like fishing the edge and top of rock piles out around big bay with lindys/rainbows/leeches that time of year. But there's 100 different ways to catch walleyes that time of year. Just use your electronics to find fish and don't beat up a spot if the walleyes aren't there.

And for bass, we like to use the trolling motor to troll down the shore and cast slip bobbers and leeches up to spots. Any fallen tree or big rock can have a smallie around it. Every year we take kids out and let them hammer on 2-4 lbers and it's a blast. About 5 years ago I was doing this and I found a huge rock on shore with enough water underneath that you could swim under it and every year we go there and watch the smallies swim out and hammer the leeches, it's a good time.

[mbeyer]

I'm on the east end late May-early June. We don't see blue gill or crappie on the east. We do see them when we travel to the west end. The bass can keep the group busy. Fish any weeds and the pike will be there. Both on the east end.