Black Hawk Lake:

 Surface water temperatureis around 70 degrees.Water levels are near the crest of the spillway.Bluegill -Good: Pick up bluegill just about anywhere along the shorelinein 2- to 5-feet of water. Use a small jig tipped with live bait or a small piece of crawler fished below a bobber off the floating fishing pier, the west stone pier, and the inlet bridge. Black Crappie - Fair: Use a jig with a minnow in 2- to 6-feet of water along Ice House Point, the floating dock and the stone piers in Town Bay.Walleye -Fair: Use live bait fished along the Ice House Point shoreline and the rock piles near Cottonwood Point and in the east basin.Expect walleye fishing to pick up near shore in the next couple of weeks as water temperatures cool.

Kelleys Island

Some western lake bait shops now have emerald shiner minnows, the prime live bait for yellow
perch, but the shops often run out after the early-morning rush. Golden shiners will do the job. If
all that is available are large golden shiners, tail hook the bait or cut the shiners in half.
There are very few quality reports on walleye fishing right now. Not many anglers are trolling for
walleye with the perch fishing so strong. The drift-and- cast walleye technique has been the best
way to hook up with a limit of six walleye.
The smaller walleye from the 2014 and 2015 year classes are continuing to grow, and a larger
percentage of them are topping the 15-inch size limit. Walleye are moving up on the reefs and
rock piles, with Gull and Kelleys Island shoals good spots to cast mayfly rigs and weight-forward
spinners tipped with nightcrawlers.
There have been reports of good walleye fishing around Kelleys Island in 12 to 20 feet of water,
especially inside the southeast corner and around the northwest corner of the island

CHESAPEAKE BAY:

Fishing king mackerel run is the best this area has seen in years. True smoker kings, some over 50 pounds, are crashing both live and trolled baits. Cobia are heading south, igniting some outstanding end-of-season top water action, with several exceeding 50 pounds. Big red drum are still roaming about the lower bay shoals and barrier islands. Fresh cut bait and live bait work well. Spanish mackerel are still chasing trolled spoons, and anglers are finding respectable flounder (around 23 inches) at the mouth of the bay as they begin migrating to deeper water. Remember that seabass season closes today. Big sheepshead will linger on the structure of the Bay Bridge Tunnel for the next few weeks, and big yellow belly spot are hitting in Lynnhaven and Rudee Inlet. Amberjack are still active at the Southern Towers. Offshore, billfish are providing good action.

Rainy River

Rainy River anglers finding more shiners and walleyes have entered the river with morning/evening still the best for now. Trolling cranks or pulling spinners producing the best to cover lots of area but walleyes found vertical jigging tipped with a shiner doing good. Smallmouth bass in good numbers along shoreline rock, bridge embankments and feeder streams. Many sturgeon over 50" and 60" being boated at all times of the day and night.

Yellow Creek Lake

Anglers fishing  are picking up some large catfish at the boat launch near L & M Campground. Reports indicate the big catfish also are congregating around the North Shore boat launch. In addition to the catfish, fishermen are doing well with largemouth bass and are catching the occasional northern pike or sunfish in the lake, too.

Once the water temperatures begin to cool

Fish often become easier to locate with electronics when they begin to locate in deeper water. Once walleyes begin to school more tightly in the fall, anglers have a better chance to locate a decent sized pod of walleyes to fish if they are looking in the right areas in the lakes.

There are a few characteristics anglers should be looking for late in the season, regardless of the species of fish they are trying to locate.
Once the water temperatures begin to cool in the fall, most species of fish want to stay close to their food. A spot can have all of the positive characteristics of an area that should be good to fish, but if there are no baitfish and nothing else for fish to eat there, the walleyes and other predator species likely won't be there either.
Perch, crappies and sunfish may be looking for insect larvae, crayfish, minnows or other smaller forage when they choose where they want to be located in the fall.

Sturgeon Bay

 Bad weather has limited fishing opportunities in the Sturgeon Bay area for both boats and shore anglers. Very little success was reported by any boats coming off the Lake Michigan side, with only a single fish here or there reported. Perch fishing has slowed according to reports over the past week also, and fewer boats than normal have been out to boot. Some walleye anglers have had some success trolling crawler harnesses out on the bay in 20-30 feet-of-water, but they have also reported a lot of sheepshead and catfish bycatch.
Shore anglers have had very limited success for smallmouth or any species besides gobies for that matter, as storms and changing weather seemed to scatter fish.

Oconto River

Blue gill and some small mouth are still being caught below the Dam at Stiles on the Oconto River although the catch rates have dropped this past week. Fishing the mouth of the Oconto River is still producing some small mouth, cat fish, and drum mainly using live bait. Fishing Young's Reef this past week was producing very good success with most anglers rip Jigging. Trolling crawler/harness and bottom bouncers was also working well. Perch anglers were having some success from the Pensaukee River to Oconto Park II fishing in 6 to 14 feet of water using minnows and crawler chunks. The most productive time to fish has been early morning.
Genoas Beach- The launch was consistently full throughout the week and weekend despite the strong winds that kept many anglers home. Only a few interviews were taken and all the anglers interviewed were in search for walleye. Some spent a short time on the water due to the weather change and came home empty while others had a couple fish to take home.