r/hookedonmidwest

I'm going to be staying at a house in Wisconsin for the 4th of July. It's on the land a mile south of the sheboygan pier and is mostly a sandy beach with no rocks or structure. What does surf fishing from the beach look like? What can I catch and what techniques are best? I'm thinking of mostly throwing spinners.

Hello, hope you all are beating the heat. I am soliciting some advice about bass fishing in the Twin Cities Metro. I just started bass fishing after mostly fishing for carp and catfish and have been having limited success (1 largemouth off the shore of Lake Demontreville on a wacky rig)

I would love to learn more about

Weather Patterns: I understand that the bite is tougher when it is real hot, real sunny, and in the immediate aftermath of a thunderstorm. I understand that the bite is better when it is cloudy, during dusk and dawn, and when a storm front is coming in. I would love any advice about using weather to my advantage and maybe even a little scheduling advice for this weekend.

Rigs: I usually fish a wacky rig because it's pretty simple. I own some senkos, robo worms, some craw trailers and swimbaits, a spinner bait, a flipping jig, a frog, an old buzz bait, and a floating minnow. I have some basic basic weights, hooks, and round jig heads. I would love any advice, but I would especially like to learn more about crankbaits, jerkbaits, and the world of hard plastic lures because all I do is lose them in cover and not catch fish. I would also love to know if it is worth it to buy a swimming jig or if i can just swim my flipping jig. I also want to work on techniques like jigging, dragging, hopping ect. I always feel like I am going too fast or too slow, too hard or too soft

Locations: I live in northeast and usually try to fish places like Mississippi under the lowry bridge, the Plymouth bridge, boom island park. I also venture out to metro lakes when I can. I want to get out to flats on the river by the U, lake vadnais, the Minnesota river by black dog dam and picnic island, places like that. I own a canoe with a trolling motor but I am equally interested in shore fishing. I would love any advice about working those spots or places I should try. Where it is legal, I really want to try some two line fishing and throw bait out for cats or carp and then do some bass or pike fishing to keep busy.

Thank you for any advice you can give me! If you want to know about carp fishing, I am happy to return the favor