Finally checking in with a report for the first time in three weeks! My favorite fishing partner (Mrs. Ragas) and I just concluded annual vacation week. We jumped a bunch of lakes over the last week. While we (she mostly!) made it look easy, the fishing was pretty challenging each day. We got lucky

  In unsurprising fashion, summer has been a blur. Been fishing lots, and traveling back and forth frequently since late May. I also got sick over Independence Day, which brought me down for a week. I recovered enough to return to the water last week.

  Hi everyone, fishing has remained good-to-great, as we enter the first days of July. I just got off the water this week, and evade the tourists. July holiday is the one week of the year I don’t want to be up north. Smallmouth fishing has remained good and above average. We didn’t focus on

  Bass have spawned long ago. The water temps are getting both high and low. The mayflies are hatching. And I finally got my boat back with new motor install done! What’s there not to like about middle of June fishing?

  Due to my bad luck and continued boat blunders, I spent more time on land than on water this spring. It was excruciatingly brutal. The good news is, starting June 10th we are back in business. Despite this recent downtime and re-charge, I spent about a week fishing throughout the northwoods – on solo

  Hoping everyone is having far better luck than I am OFF the water – We’ll get to those details down towards the very bottom of this post. Regarding the fishing, it’s been going well!

Here is a complete itinerary of the type of fishing we could be doing during the 2023 fishing season.

  If 70 degrees on November 2nd is indicative of anything, it feels more like summer than late fall right now. Despite water temperatures in the upper-40’s right now, the end is nearer than weather’s deceptions show.