Captain Josh Hagemeister from Minnesota Fishing Guide Service giving his latest Central Minnesota fishing report on June 6th, 2024.
Central Minnesota Fishing Report: 6-6-24
The fish are biting in Central Minnesota. Anglers can expect to catch numbers of walleyes, northern pike, bass, and panfish. As the water temperatures rise the bite is only going to continue to get better in Central Minnesota.
Walleye: Central Minnesota Fishing Report
The walleyes have been biting well. We’ve had the the best success using a 3/4-ounce ounce bottom bouncer paired with a crawler harness. Tip your crawler harness with half of a nightcrawler. You don’t want to add any additional motion when bottom bouncing. Keep it steady and don’t jig it, fish aren’t looking for anything crazy. Let the spinner and harness do the work and the walleyes will thump it. Pull the spinners between 0.5 to 1 mph.
Location: Look for those newly formed weed lines further out between nine and seventeen feet of water. Target the outside edge getting close to the weeds to entice those ambush strikes. Some walleyes can be found on main lake humps as well.
Panfish: Central Minnesota Fishing Report
For the most part the crappies have finished up spawning while the bluegills are in the middle of their spawn. Anglers can expect to find big crappies and some bluegills along the edge of the newly formed cabbage beds in four to eight feet of water. Target the emerging cabbage beds that are closest to their spawning grounds.
Bait: Crappies and bluegills can be caught on a number of different presentations, but our best bait has been a 1/16-ounce jig paired with a 2-inch Berkley Ripple Shad. You can fish them fast, covering water and the bigger presentation tends to produce larger fish. Crappies and bluegills can also be caught on crappie minnows, hair jigs, and other small panfish plastics.
Bass: Central Minnesota Fishing Report
There are still some largemouth bass are still spawning, however there are plenty of post-spawn fish cruising around. Target largemouth bass in weed beds between five and ten feet of water. Emerging cabbage weed beds seem to be holding the most fish.
Largemouth bass can be caught on a number of different presentations. Wacky rigs, jigs, Carolina Rigs, swimbaits, and ned rigs. As far as color goes any variation of green pumpkin will work great as well as blue and black. As the spawn wraps up anglers can expect some of those bigger largemouth bass to start feeding heavily.
