By Andrew Ragas I am biased but blessed. I get to fish and guide in relative bass fishing obscurity for half the year. Having spent nearly all 31 years of my life up to this point fishing the waters around Minocqua, WI, there is no better bass fishing destination for catch and release only fishing, early season experience, and year-round adventure. The landscape of Vilas and Oneida county region is in abundance of thousands of lakes. Its diverse lake types and their fisheries teem with under fished, world class smallmouth and largemouth bass fishing. Some lakes have numbers while others some trophies. When “up north”, it’s impossible for me to ever get bored. I have enough bass fishing opportunity to last me an entire lifetime of fishing. While my specialty is bass and will be the primary focus of this tour guide, we have other well known, more popular fish species too. If you are into other species such as walleye, northern pike, and panfish, whose seasons also open in early May, they are available in most bass lakes, also. Everyone fishes for them, and continue to neglect bass. With Wisconsin’s inland gamefish season opener the first Saturday of May, anglers are