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FARIBAULT AREA The 8- to 10- foot weeds on French Lake are giving up sunfish. Crappies and sunfish are hitting on Lake Mazaska in 12 to 14 feet. Hit the channel on Kelley Dudley Lake with suckers in 10 to 12 feet for pike. Shields Lake is producing sunfish and an occasional walleye on crawlers

FAIRMONT AREA Crappies and bluegills continue to be pulled from 4 to 8 feet on Budd Lake and Hall Lake. The docks on Lake Sissiton and George Lake are holding bass and catfish are hitting crawlers on all lakes at a variety of depths. Walleyes are best with crankbaits or spinners in 8 feet on Hall

DULUTH AREA Walleyes are hitting nightcrawlers or minnows in 15 feet or deep-running crankbaits in 25 feet at Island Lake. Work the 10-foot structure with topwater baits or large suckers for muskies on Island and St. Louis River. Crappies are in 15 feet and bluegills are in 8 to 10 feet at Fish Lake. Use

LAKE MILLE LACS  East – Crankbaits, plastics and live bait are all turning smallmouth bass on the rock points and reefs. Hit the mud flats and gravel bars in 22 to 28 feet for walleyes during the day and the rock reefs at night with leeches and slip bobbers for better action. Northern pike continue to

ALEXANDRIA AREA Spinner rigs and crawlers or jigs and minnows are producing walleyes in 20 to 24 feet on Lake Miltona and Lake Ida. Crappie action remains strong on the weedlines of Lake Carlos, Lake Le Homme Dieu and Lake Geneva. Bass are hitting plastics on the 20-foot weedlines throughout the Le Homme Dieu Chain

LAKE MINNETONKA  The deep weed edges in most bigger bays have produced walleyes in low-light with crawlers or fatheads. The same areas will produce sunfish during the day. Muskies remain favorable with bigger fish hitting bucktails and topwater baits on the large weed flats. Bass and crappies also have been relating to the deep weedlines