DNR FISHING REPORTS FOR 11-7-17 ROGER'S OUTDOOR NEWS

Green Bay Fishing Report: November 7, 2017

Door Co.

• Cool weather and wind has kept fishing pressure minimal across Door County. Most anglers have been targeting smallmouth fishing out of Stone Quarry, Sister Bay, Gills Rock and Rowleys Bay. The bass bite has been a bit slow but anglers are having some success fishing offshore structure in 20-30FOW using plastics and live suckers. In the Sturgeon Bay Canal most anglers have been finding a few pike. Shore and boat anglers have been finding a few walleyes using crankbaits in the evening and after dark. The salmon run is slowing down but fish can still be seen in the marinas and creeks around the county. Brown trout action should pick up as the water continues to cool.
• Chaudoirs Dock – No angler’s observed
• Sugar Creek - No angler’s observed
• Rites Cove - No angler’s observed
• Little Sturgeon Bay – Anglers were only observed on one day of the week. The few anglers that were interviewed reported targeting small mouth bass with no luck.
• Sawyer Harbor – An average of 7 trailers were observed during at the beginning of the week. Anglers reported targeting yellow perch and came in with or close to their limits for a half day trip.

Brown/Kewaunee Co. - Bay side from Sturgeon Bay area south

• Bayshore - Bayshore was pretty slow all week only averaging 6 boats on a few days throughout the week. Nearly all anglers were out for walleye this week with no luck. Anglers were even having a hard time catching other fish like freshwater drum, white bass, white perch, and round gobies that are normally caught when out for walleye.
• Suamico – Most boats out were duck hunters but there were a few anglers out on the water. The anglers that were interviewed were fishing for muskie with moderate success. A fish was reported being caught every few boats. The lot had 5-15 trailers in it over the course of last week.
• Longtail Lauches- no anglers or trailers
• Metro launch – An average of 8 trailers were observed at the beginning of the week and nearly 60 trailers over the weekend with the warm weather. At the beginning few boat anglers reported targeting walleye and caught approximately 6 fish for a half day out. This weekends unseasonably hot weather brought out more recreational boaters than anglers, though the anglers which were out had fairly consistent luck as anglers earlier in the week.
• Fox River Mouth – High trailer counts all week which ended up resulting in high number of interviews from pleasure boaters. With the nice weather we have had lately the public is getting on the water and enjoying the sun. As for anglers, walleye has been the main target with anglers launching from the mouth and running a couple miles north usually. Walleye angler have had a tough time finding decent numbers of walleyes and they are also struggling to keep the non-target fish off their lines, many times white perch or freshwater drum will hit their baits before a walleye has time. Shore anglers from the river mouth have still been doing good catching freshwater drum with the occasional channel catfish mixed in. The river’s water temperature is quite high right now with many anglers reporting 82-85 degree surface temperatures.
• Fox River- Almost all of my interviews from the upper portion of the river came from pleasure boaters with most of the anglers targeting fish out in the bay right now. Fish species that have been caught by anglers in the upper portion have been, freshwater drum, and channel catfish.
• Fox Point Launch – The lot averaged 1-3 trailers in it over the past week. No interviews taken.
• Fairgrounds – The lot averaged a couple trailers in it over the past week. One interview was taken of an angler fishing for white bass. He caught a handful of fish for a few hours on the water.
• Duck Creek - Plenty of trailers were observed but all interviews taken were duck hunters.
• Voyager Park – With the water temperature dropping, greater numbers of walleye have moved back into the Fox River. This has led to a large increase of the number anglers out fishing in Voyager Park. The park averaged 5-20 anglers fishing from shore over the past week, even late after sundown. All the anglers were targeting walleye with considerable success. Most had their limit within a couple of hours. A few freshwater drum and white bass were caught as well.
• Red River - No anglers observed.
• Bay beach launch- There were a variety of boaters on the water over the past week. The anglers out were in search walleye or muskie. Both groups did well with consistent numbers of both walleye and muskie being caught despite the chilly weather. The rest of the boaters on the water were duck hunters. The lot averaged 3-7 trailers in it.