Back Lash Musky Fishing Podcast
May 20, 2026 · 57 min · 14 segments
On this episode Jeff Van Remortel breaks down spring fishing conditions in northern Wisconsin—water temperatures, spawning progress, and where musky and walleyes are holding. He shares practical bait…
What's, what's water temperature doing up there? Because of the fact that, I mean, we've seen so much up and down.
So Saturday it was, whatever, I don't know, 80, right, i- i- in the, you know, Fox Valley, you know, central Wis- central Wisconsin-ish area.
And then yesterday it was like 60 and then raining all day long, and I was kind of like, "Can we re- literally get two nice days in a row? Like, is this physically something that can happen?"
I mean, so opening day water temperatures on our largest lakes were anywhere from the 39 to 40 degree range for the first couple hours all the way up to, you know, that 48 to 50 degree range on the smallest, most advanced systems.
We had a lot of that, or those couple days of like 70, 65, 70 degree weather that we had in late April really helped out more than you would expect.
What's, what's water temperature doing up there? Because of the fact that, I mean, we've seen so much up and down.
So Saturday it was, whatever, I don't know, 80, right, i- i- in the, you know, Fox Valley, you know, central Wis- central Wisconsin-ish area.
And then yesterday it was like 60 and then raining all day long, and I was kind of like, "Can we re- literally get two nice days in a row? Like, is this physically something that can happen?"
I mean, so opening day water temperatures on our largest lakes were anywhere from the 39 to 40 degree range for the first couple hours all the way up to, you know, that 48 to 50 degree range on the smallest, most advanced systems.
We had a lot of that, or those couple days of like 70, 65, 70 degree weather that we had in late April really helped out more than you would expect.
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