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The bass are staging on points in front of spawning areas and are starting to move in ,getting ready for the spawn.I saw a big female on a bed yesterday.The water temps were in the lower sixties.I caught a lot of male fish and a few big females.I saw quite a few just swimming around in the shallows.I have also got into the walleye's in 8 to 12 feet of water.The bait of choice for the bass was a 3.5 inch Lunker city shaker tail in white on a 1/8 oz jig head ,the eye's I was getting came on the new Freedom swing head jigs 1/4 oz with a green fluke.The little pike continue to be a pain in the ....

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Thanks for the report   My son and I are heading to Rainey today to fish for bass for a week. Was wondering what part of the lake you are finding the 60° water we only fish  the Canadian side of the lake.  

 

Has anyone been catching a crappie? I see the reports on ice fishing in the winter with the  huge crappie but I have never been able to catch them  in the spring. 

Thanks again for the report

 

 

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The back bays in the North arm,as for crappies I havnt heard anything.

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Fished Wednesday around Sandpoint Island. Water Temps were 65 to 68° in the back of bays. Caught around 40 fish largest smallie was 18" walleye 26" and northern 36". Caught on jerk baits. Grubs and top water. Fish were 10 ft or less 

Thursday. Fished the north arm caught 70 fish. Fish were on the bank to 10 ft of water. Largest bass was 19" with most 17". Only one walleye some small northern. one 36" . 1/8 grubs and jerk baits. Did see some smallmouth beds water temps were 60-65 degrees

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Went out today for a few hours water temps have dropped to 58 degrees,bass fishing was slow but the walleye's were biting in 7 to 10 fow, on a freedom head jig with a green fluke.

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The bass bite Friday was pretty steady,they were holding tight to the shore.We were throwing small jigs into the dark spots along the shore ,most of the fish were males.I didn't see many beds and the water temps were in the upper 60's.

We did get a few walleye and some small pike also.

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The bass fishing was good today ,they were in close to the bank,we got most of them on 1/8 oz jigs with a 2 inch ribster, throwing them into the dark spots along the shorelines that had a little breeze blowing into it.

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The walleye bite is really starting to get good. Only like 6 fish small enough to keep out of 50+. Best luck was in the mid 20s. That's okay though, Id rather catch the bigger fish. Leeches and Crawlers evened themselves out, some spots one was better than the other, you just have to adjust. Troll speed about .9 mph. Didn't see much if any on reefs yet. I will say that the fishing this year is still behind last year at this time. Fish have not even moved into my go to spots in full force yet.

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SledNeck,

Do you fish the Canadian side or the U.S. side?  

Crawlers started working for us this past week.  They were more effective than leeches or shiners/chubs on the lindy rig.  

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Played guide for family in town wanting to bass fish. slayed some bass on both lake (U.S. Side) and river but as per the norm the river was superb over the lake. Worked lots of shoreline. Small ones along shore and bigger ones off points on lake. Had a nice one take one of our spinner baits in a shallow bay in the weeds. Fished two days around fox islands and did well one slow the next. Got a bonus 23" eye along windward shore in a couple feet of water. Best bait on lake was crankin rap or Arashi style baits as well as spinners. River proved well with top water and stick baits as well as those that worked on lake. Got a personal best bass on river around 10lbs. 

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Bass are in there summer haunts now,they are fat and biting .Iam seeing some showing up on the humps,but are best luck has been on points and on the shorelines on either side of the points.Reaction type baits have been working well.

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I was out on the east end yesterday bass fishing,we got 4 nice ones and the rest were small.The bigger fish were on points with wind.We did not get any walleyes.The eyes are on the reefs,pike were small and few.

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We fished the north arm yesterday and the bass were biting ,we used X-raps and fished the points with wind blowing in.We got numbers and some big ones only a couple of walleyes and one big pike.

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I went out prefishing for the Ifalls bass championship yesterday,we were fishing on the American side of the the lake ,the fishing was slow.The wind was a factor for sure,we did see quite a few others out prefishing too.

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