October 30, 31

October 29

I went fishing at Red Willow Lake in the afternoon and caught good numbers of white bass up to 12 inches and smaller wipers up to 18 inches, including one Master Angler wiper at 24.50 inches. These fish were caught on a medium diving crankbait and a dropshot rigs with plastic baits using a 3/4 ounce prototype ReelBait Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight on the tag end of the line. I fished around underwater humps. The main lake surface water temperature is averaging around 57 degrees.

October 25-27

I went fishing at a private sandpit for a few hours in the afternoon and caught good numbers of largemouth bass up to 18 inches, crappies up to 14 inches, and bluegills up to 9 inches. These fish were caught on dropshot rigs using a 4-inch plastic worm and 1.50-inch Shad Assassin along the edge of a deep weed beds in depths of 10 to 18 feet.

October 23

I went fishing at Red Willow lake in the afternoon for a few hours and caught good numbers of white bass and smaller wipers. They were caught around underwater humps and flats next to deep water using medium diving crankbaits and dropshot rigs using small plastic baits. I also caught a Master Angler largemouth bass at 22 inches by slow rolling a spinnerbait next to stumps on a main lake point. The main lake surface water temperature is averaging around 60 degrees.

October 22

I took a friend fishing at Red Willow Lake in the afternoon, and we caught good numbers of smaller wipers between 12 and 18 inches and white bass up to 13 inches on medium diving crankbaits fishing around main lake points, humps, and flats next to deep water. I also caught a Master Angler largemouth bass at 20.50 inches using a tubebait, pitching it next to a stump near the mouth of a cove. The surface water temperature is averaging around 60 degrees with the water clarity is between 12 to 15 inches.

October 20, 21

I went fishing at a private sandpit in the afternoon for a few hours and caught good numbers of largemouth bass between 10 and 18 inches and crappies up to 12 inches. These fish were caught on dropshot rigs using a 4-inch plastic worm, and a suspending jerkbait, fished around the edges of deep weed beds along the drop- off.

October 19

October 18

My brother Tim and I went fishing at Enders Lake and we caught good numbers of wiper up to 22 inches, white bass up to 16 inches, crappies up to 12 inches, fiive walleyes between 13 and 17 inches, and eight smallmouth bass up to 16 inches. These fish were caught on medium diving crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, dropshot rigs with Berkley Gulp Minnow Grub and a ReelBait Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight on the tag end of the line, jigging spoons, and jigheads with a 3-inch plastic worm attached. The fish were caught around main lake points, underwater humps, and flats next to deep water. The surface water temperature is in the upper 50s and the water clarity is averaging about 30 inches.

October 17

I went fishing at Red Willow Lake in the afternoon. I'm still catching good numbers of white bass and smaller wipers on medium diving crankbaits and dropshot rigs using Berkley Gulp minnow grub and a Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight on the tag end of the line. These fish were caught around underwater humps in depth of 8 to 15 feet. I also caught a 30-inch flathead catfish on a rubber-skirted jig and plastic worm combo next to a underwater stump on a  main lake point, and a 19-inch largemouth bass on a tubebait pitching next to standing timber near the mouth of a cove. The surface water temperature is averaging about 60 degrees.

October 16

I went fishing at Red Willow Lake in the afternoon and caught good numbers of white bass and smaller wipers. These fish were caught on medium diving crankbaits and dropshot rigs with a Berkley Gulp Minnow Grub and a ReelBait Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight. The fish were caught around underwater humps in depths of 8 to 15 feet. The surface water temperature is in the upper 50s, and the water clarity is averaging about 12 inches.

October 13-15

I went fishing at a private sandpit for a few hours in the afternoon. I'm still catching good numbers of largemouth bass using dropshot rigs with a Berkley Gulp Minnow Grub and 4-inch plastic worm along the first drop off in depths of 10 and 20 feet.

October 12

My brother Tim and I went fishing at a private sandpit in the afternoon. We caught good numbers of largemouth bass between 10 and 19 inches, crappies up to 15 inches, and 2 walleyes at 22 and 18 inches. These fish were caught on dropshot rigs with the new Berkley Gulp 2-inch minnow Grub using a Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight on the tag end of the line, a jig and 4-inch plastic worm combo, and a blade bait (Silver Buddy). We were fishing along the deep drop off in depth of 10 to 20 feet.

October 11

I guided at Red Willow Lake. We're still catching good number of smaller wipers and white bass on medium diving crankbaits, and on dropshot rigs with the new Berkley Gulp 2-inch plastic grub, using a ReelBait Walleye Flasher Jig as a weight on the tag end of the line, around main lake points and humps. We also caught one Master Angler largemouth bass at 20.50", plus three smaller largemouth on crankbait, a tubebait, and dropshot rigs with Berkley 2" plastic grub around standing timbers and stumps along the main lake drop off. The surface water temperature is in the low 60s.

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