Since my last report and newsletter from second week of October, the lakes were quickly finishing up with turnover then. That’s been long done, and now the bass are wintering. Whatever fish you catch from now to first ice will be in deep water and associating to some type of contour and bottom structure.

  Fall patterns and locational shifts are now underway. Lakes that were in the 58 to 61 degree range during my check-in early last week are now anywhere in the low 50’s to 58 degree range. The good news, turnover doesn’t occur on every water body, therefore you’ve got options to fish ahead of it

  The fishing is HOT as of late. So hot (aside from 70’s and 80’s air temps) that from Tuesday of last week when it hit 86 in the afternoon thru Sunday the 22nd when it dropped to 55, the boat captured 5 new customer PB’s and 17 fish were 20 inches and greater. In

  My favorite fishing partner (Mrs. Ragas) and I just concluded annual vacation week. A lot of the same patterns we experienced and observed from the other week will carry over again into this week, as it appears warm weather is here to stay for another while.

  Since I fished last week in between my boat and cabin projects, I figured to check in with a mini mid-month report. A lot of patterns from July have carried over into August month, and while we will still have some lingering heat this week and next I’d expect some good end of summer

  This report is long overdue and summarizes the fishing from mid July – to present. Summer peak has come and is now deeply established, bass are feeding heavily, and on some days the dog days will necessitate fishing early and late.

  Hi everyone, apologies for the delay in my monthly reports. I had hoped to get a few installments out for June, but with the fishing and most all conditions having been consistent and gradual all month there wasn’t much of a difference in each week’s fishing. Other than the unpredictability of each lake and