Walleye Cam !!! - Mille Lacs Lake Fishing (Fishing Reports, Events, Tournament Information and more)

Glen Ertl · Gray Goose Captain

Walleye Cam !!!

BEEF · Member

thats pretty cool , but where is the wolf river ??

Glen Ertl · Gray Goose Captain

Kinda East central Wisconsin from what I could gather.

H_H · Member

How long until we have one of those in mille lacs Bobber?

mbenson · Member

The Wolf River dumps into Lake Winnebago in the NW corner of the lake in Appleton. It passes through Lakes Poygan and Butte Mortes just prior to emptying in to Winnebago. The Fox River continues west from Poygan and the Wolf heads north. Heading upstream from that point, it goes to Shawano (On Highway 29 east of Wausau) and then further north.

The upper stretches are a part of the Wild River System and harbor great trout fishing as well. The lower Wolf features one of the great 'eye runs in the country as well as white bass and sturgeon during the spring. During the golden days lots of float boats would anchor to the shoreline and cane poles would be hung over the side of them sporting Wolf River rigs (a type of three way system featuring a three-way swivel used in other river fishing applications).

Mark

Bobber · Admin / Moderator

John Gillespie likes to fish that area alot..... I thought I saw a Johnsonville Brat float on by awhile ago...

well there ya go

Thank's Mark

-- Edited by Bobber on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 02:34:05 PM

MCallies · Malmo Bay Bomber

You are too much Bobber!
Thanks to Mark for those details on the river cam.
OKAY, Bobber, we do need a Walleye Cam in Mille Lacs near 'Hunters Hot Spot'.
How cool would that be? Go for it Bobber. biggrin

Get Doug to rig it up.
See you at Hunter's Point on Memorial Day weekend. I will save a walleye for you! Hope I can buy you a cold one dude. Thanks again... no golfers yet at Fiddlestix?

Rickster · Member

Sitting at my desk watching walleyes swim by. What will they think of next. A crayfish even walked by....classic.

jwalker · Member

Oh my that is cool! sitting and watching WOw! Sturgeon coming sooon! wink

mbenson · Member

Bobber:

Yep John be fishing the Wolf soon with his guide buddy "Larry, Larry, Larry!!!" for Larry Smith. He'll be sharing Johnsonvilles, thinking of bikiniville from last week and have one rod rigged with a split shot and gold hook and the other with a zip lure!!!

Mark

Buckaroo · Newbie

I can see the wolf river as I look out of my window. I am just above the first dam, and really enjoy walking down to the dam to watch the sturgeon run, which should be in a couple weeks unless it stays really warm and we get no rain.

Took the kids fishing last week for walleyes towards dusk one evening, my 3 year old almost lost her rod to a 4-5' sturgeon, I had all I could do but hold on until the line snapped. Hard to fight with a 4' pink ugly stick!

Wolf river is an awsome fishery, I just need to learn how to fish it a little better.

gpalma · Member

The 2 cams in Shiocton are about 20 miles away. They have another cam in New London and one in Fremont, both about 10 miles away. That river system is where I have done the bulk of my local fishing for maybe 40 years? It's a great system, very much like Mille Lacs in many regards.

The fish are not showing up yet on those cams, but give them another week or so and you will see scads of walleyes coming upstream to spawn from Lakes Poygan and Winnebago. Winnebago is the size of Mille Lacs BTW. The walleyes on the Wolf River spawn in marshes once they warm to optimal temps with the fish swimming upwards of 50 miles to reach the marshes. Once they spawn, they ride the current back down and feed like crazy. They can run that 50 mile distance heading back down in a couple of days or so if the current is high.

WI rules for the Wolf river system allow 5 per day year around on walleyes with 10 in possession, even during the spawning runs. It doesn't seem to affect the populations on this system much at all. There is no size limit or slot limit on this system, but the fish most favored are those 14-17" fish. Once they get over 17" they start to taste like the front page of the Star Tribune.

You can see all of the live cams at www.wolfrivercam.com and they all have the IR feature for night viewing.

-- Edited by gpalma on Wednesday 9th of March 2011 04:49:36 PM

gpalma · Member

Saw my first walleye just now on the Fremont Cam: http://www.wolfrivercam.com/Fremont Cam.html

Fished a small backwater area just off the river by Fremont day before yesterday, looking for crappie in particular. Ended up with 4 walleyes 15-16" using 1-1/4" long plastic ice tails and 4 crappie 10-11". The backwater is about 7' max depth and the fish were right in the deepest area. Had the place pretty much to myself.

Went back yesterday at oh-dark-thirty armed with tip-downs, rosey-reds and a jigging rod with a spoon/minnow head. Couldn't buy a bite. Switched over to plastic tails and still nothing. Sometimes the best laid plans...

In reality, the river has been rising with the thaw. The flow can draw fish up into the backwater areas and blow them back out just as fast.

tat2jonnie · Senior Member

http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Live_Underwater_MN_Fish.html
Here's another one, but panfish and bass.....

gpalma · Member

Fish have been coming through heavily on the Shiocton cams for 3+ days. We have been hammering lots of pike :) Yesterday I kept the 16.5-17.5 inch fish and was throwing back the 18-20.5" females. Today I was throwing back 20.5-23" females. Ya just never know...

http://www.wolfrivercam.com/Shiocton Cam 2.html

-- Edited by gpalma on Saturday 9th of April 2011 07:35:47 PM