June 29

My two brothers, and I fished below Medicine Creek Reservoir in the spillway in the afternoon. I caught a Master angler flathead catfish at 44 inches. We also caught smaller flathead catfish about 10 pounds, white bass up to 15 inches, freshwater drum up to 18 inches, a few walleyes, and a northern pike. We caught these fish using a Reelbait Flasher Jig with a Berkley Gulp! Minnow Grub, medium diving crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, and spoons.

June 24-28

I guided on Red Willow Reservoir, and one of my clients caught two Master Angler fish including a 28-inch wiper and a 36.50-inch northern pike. My clients and I also caught smaller northern pike between 24 and 34 inches, wipers between 14 and 23 inches, white bass up to 13 inches, walleyes up to 20 inches, a few crappies up to 13 inches, and a few largemouth and smallmouth bass. We caught these fish around main lake points, underwater humps, edges of deep weed beds, and willow trees, flats next to creek channels, mouths of deep coves, and next to the dam areas in depths of 25 feet or less. They were caught on Carolina Rigs using shiners, Lytle's Secret Tail Spinners, swimbaits, topwater plugs, and spoons. The surface water temperature is in the upper 70s.

June 17-23

I guided on Red Willow Reservoir, and my clients caught three Master Angler fish including two northern pike at 10 and 11.75 lbs, and a 15.25-inch crappie. My clients and I also caught wipers between 13 and 23 inches, white bass up to 14 inches, walleyes up to 22 inches, northern pike between 24 and 35 inches, a few crappies between 10 and 14 inches, a few freshwater drum, and a largemouth bass at about 15 inches. We caught these fish on Lytle's Secret Tail Spinners, Reelbait Flasher Jigs with a Berkley Gulp! Minnow and Minnow Grub, swimbaits, topwater plugs, jigging spoons, and Carolina Rigs using shiners and Berkley Gulp minnows and minnow grubs. The fish were caught around main lake points, flats next to deep water, underwater humps, edges of creek channels, mouths of coves, and next to the dam areas in depths of 28 feet or less. The surface water temperature is in the mid 70s.

June 14-15

My brother Tim, and I fished below Medicine Creek Reservoir in the spillway in the afternoon. We caught wipers up to 24 inches, three nice walleye at 26.50, 24, and 22 inches, plus smaller walleyes between 14 and 18 inches, white bass up to 15 inches, northern pike between 24 and 28 inches, freshwater drum up to 20 inches, a few crappies up to 13 inches, and largemouth bass up to 15 inches. We caught these fish on diving and lipless crankbaits.

June 9-12

I guided on Red Willow Reservoir, and my clients caught two Master Angler fish including a 26-inch wiper and a 24-inch freshwater drum. My clients and I also caught smaller wipers between 14 and 23 inches, white bass up to 13 inches, walleyes between 14 and 23.50 inches, northern pike between 18 and 35 inches, and a few largemouth bass and crappies. We caught these fish around main lake points, underwater humps, flats next to deep water, edges of creek channels, mouths of coves, and near dam areas in depth of 30 feet or less. They were caught on Lytle's Secret Tail Spinners, Reelbait Flasher Jigs with a Berkley Gulp! Minnow and Minnow Grub, swimbaits, topwater plugs, and Carolina Rigs using shiners and Berkley Gulp!. The surface water temperature is in the 70s.

June 3-7

I guided on Red Willow Reservoir all five days. My clients and I caught two Master Angler northern pike at 10.75 and 10.25 pounds. We also caught good number of smaller northern pike between 24 and 34 inches, wipers up to 23.50 inches, white bass up to 13 inches, walleyes between 14 and 24 inches, crappies between 10 and 13 inches, a few largemouth bass up to 18 inches, and a few smallmouth bass. We caught these fish on a Lytle's Secret Tail Spinner, swimbaits, Reelbait Flasher Jigs with Berkley Gulp! Minnow and Minnow Grub, and a Carolina Rig using shiners. They were caught around main lake points, underwater humps, flats next to deep water, edges of the creeks channel, coves, and along the dam areas. The surface water temperature was in the upper 60s earlier in the week and in the low 70s in the afternoon the last few days.

June 2

My brother Rod, his son, and I fished below Medicine Creek Reservoir in the spillway. We caught good numbers of wipers up to 23 inches, white bass up to 15 inches, walleye up to 18 inches, plus a few northern pike and largemouth bass. These fish were caught on a 3/4- and 1-oz. Lytle's Secret Tail Spinners and a Reelbait Flasher Jig with a 4- and 5-inch swimbait.

May 28 - June1

I guided on Red Willow Reservoir all five days. My clients and I caught good numbers of wipers between 14 and 23.75 inches, walleyes up to 24 inches, northern pike up to 33 inches, white bass up to 13 inches, a few crappies between 11 and 13 inches, largemouth bass up to 18 inches, and smallmouth bass between 10 and 16 inches. We caught these fish on a Lytle's Secret Tail Spinners, Reelbait Flasher jigs with Berkley Gulp! Minnow, suspending jerkbaits, swimbaits, topwater plugs, lipless crankbaits, shallow running crankbaits, and a Carolina rig using shiners. These fish were caught around main lake points, underwater humps, edges of creek channels, flats next to deep water, back in coves, edges of flooded willow trees, and along the dam areas. The surface water temperature is in the mid 60s.

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