Another day fishing, Sunday, May 24 and this time on a big Duluth area lake. We were scouting out new areas while pitching spinnerbaits to shallow weeds and found small pike and had a big muskie follow right to the boat. Water temps were in the 57-65 degree range, depending on what bay you were in. Big shallow bays were warmer and reeds held pike.

Some smallies were caught and biting, but it's not a fast bite and they were in their normal locations for spring on shallow wood and rocks. Pitching right into stumps, trees and rocks was the ticket and you needed to use plastic worms to get them.

The weeds are just starting to grow. Many people were on their docks and even out fishing walleyes off points and sunken humps. Jigs and minnows were the number one lures for walleyes.

Yesterday, Saturday, May 23rd, I was out fishing with some great folks yesterday on another area lake.

We found that the crappies had moved into 5-6 feet of water and on spawn in 62 degree water. The males are very black now, so the spawn's on. You could pitch or pull jigs and minnows behind the boat with the trolling motor and catch crappies, but over night the wind turned around completely, from out of the SE to out of the North at about 10mph.

We had cloud cover early that turned into a clear sunny day. A few walleyes were coming out of 10 feet of water with jigs and minnows or leeches, early and late in the day. The crappies were slow today, except one here and there on wood. We saw lots of bluegills, crappies, pike and bass moving in the shallows, along with the painted and snapping turtles.

We pulled many bass including one 4 plus pounds. So a jig and pig was a great goto bait.

Pike were easily taken with spinnerbaits trolled at 2.5 mph, this bite will just get better.

The bluegills are in full spawn and another boat beat me to the hot corner with loads of them in it, for a second day in a row. Hey guys, my turn next time?

Remember to get kids out fishing and I'll see you on the water.

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