Green Bay/Winnebago Walleyes June Fishing Report

The start of June has lacked acceptable weather to say the least. Several days that have been temperatures struggle into the high 50's with overnight lows in he upper 30's to the far north. This hasn't stopped the Walleyes from biting on Green Bay and it certainly hasn't stopped them from biting on Lake Winnebago. This past week was one of our best as far as big fish on Green Bay. We found a very large and cooperative school of fish in the Dykesville area roaming the 20' to 25' depth range. If its size you want, size you'll get, over the past week we landed 4 fish over 30 inches and several others topping the 28 inch mark. A majority of these fish were caught near the 25 foot depth range. Our lures of choice were crawler harnesses trolled behind 1oz weights from 20 feet to 40 feet behind our Offshore Planer Boards. There is still a school of smaller, "eater sized", fish near the Vincent Point area. These fish can be fished with either crankbaits or crawler harnesses, look to the mid-bay humps and the edges of the structure for the best action from 12' to 17' of water. Our best cranks were Reef Runner Ripshads in Kryptonite. There is also a nice school of fish outside the Geano Reef area. Their depth varies by the day, we have caught these fish in as shallow as 8' and as deep as 20'-22'. Our best baits on the West shore have been Crawler harnesses with Warrior Spinner Blades. The best advice I can provide for Green Bay at this time is to stay versatile and stay mobile. Don't place all your lures at a consistent depth, and don't live and die on a spot which may have been good yesterday. These fish are really on the move more than they have been in quite some time.

Lake Winnebago has also been giving up fish despite the weather. Saturday, June 6th, we ventured down to Winnebago to begin preparation for Walleye Weekend. Stopping at our first spot in the Northeast corner of the lake we found fish immediatly in the "Mud" pulling 12 fish in our first short pass in the 17'-18' depth range. We made 1 more pass in the Northeast end of the lake and ended boating 25 fish on total prior to making a move. There was also fish which were blown up on the rock reefs on the west side of the lake. Blackbird and Little Blackbird both gave up good numbers of smaller fish throwing 1/8 oz jigs tipped with crawlers. We also pulled a few fish near the Oshkosh area and the Blackwolf area. Needless to say the fish were cooperative everywhere on saturday, making it tough to nail down a really good patern. Our best baits were Reef Runner Ripshads, Berkley Flickr Shads, and Grapler Shads.

The weather is supposed to finally take a trun for the better this week with weekend temps in the 70's. Look for this to finally start to school up fish in areas where they have been scattered and bring some consistancy and predictability to the fishing. We will be on the water every day until next monday so if you need a more up to date or detailed report we can be reached at (920) 660-7275. Good luck everyone, stay safe, and enjoy the warm, NORMAL HIGH's, weather this weekend.