
Wisconsin Fishing Report – November 5, 2020
If you’re not heading to the deer stand, it should be an excellent weekend of late fall, open-water fishing opportunities.
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If you’re not heading to the deer stand, it should be an excellent weekend of late fall, open-water fishing opportunities.

With snow on the ground and winter-like weather covering the state as of this writing, many anglers have been forced to put an early end to their open-water fishing season, about two to three weeks

With weather patterns changing almost daily, water temperatures have been jumping all over the place and that seems to have had a negative impact on what had been some excellent walleye fishing across the state.

Walleyes continue to be found shallow and deep throughout the state. A jig and minnow is producing fish on the weedlines, wind-driven points and shallow structure in 8 to 15 feet as well as on

Water temperatures continue to drop with the cool overnight lows and that’s meant a little more consistency with the state’s walleye bite.

Trout anglers in northeastern Wisconsin will soon have more access to two branches of the Oconto River.

There was a little bump in the road last week with the return of warm weather that again forced water temperatures to climb. This up-and-down fluctuation in lake temperatures seems to have walleyes not knowing

Midday walleyes continue to be difficult to catch on a consistent basis, not impossible – catching them just involve a little more work and, where available, fishing the tops of deep rock bars (16 feet

Weedlines remain a major producer for all fish species and the general rule is that you’ll find bigger panfish, pike, and bass on deep vegetation.
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