Hi folks, and welcome to the new information-packed Northwoods Bass Fishing Adventures website. I will do my best to provide weekly fishing reports until season's end. My girlfriend Amanda and I had an outstanding Labor Day weekend of fishing the local waters. She did incredibly well for a first time fisherwoman, catching a handful of smallies up to 18 inches. I let her outfish me 24 to 6 for the holiday weekend, and I had trouble keeping her off the water! During the short and quick three days, we worked a few local lakes in the Minocqua region focusing on numbers. But the places we fished also encompass many fish of good size. The places fished usually have low boat traffic too, thus they were the perfect options for the busy holiday weekend, even though boat traffic and tourist activity was light and we could have gone to anywhere but the congested Minocqua Chain. Our fishing encompassed a lot of finesse presentations such as wacky rigging, texas rigging plastics, tube jigging, casting paddle tails with swimming heads, and fishing with swim jigs and swimming grubs. In most scenarios fish were responding best to these presentations, and most fish were contacted in depths