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2020 Lake of the Woods Fishing Reports & Info


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Fished out of morris today,in 26 fow- yanked em all day- glow green was the ticket off the bottom. Morris road open with no restrictions as of Monday 12-20- good luck fellas- 16 " of good ice

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Out Saturday as well but went through Adrians. We hardly found anything, moved around quite a bit. Caught 5 in 26' and graphed only a few more than that. 4 saugers, 1 walleye, plus 1 whitefish - can't leave that one out.

From the looks of things out on the ice, fish were scattered and there were few to be caught. Lots of people moving around, portables and permanents scattered everywhere with plenty of guys just hanging outside their house and walking around. I'm sure someone pounded em but I don't think he was anywhere near us.

Good luck this week.

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We were in 20 fow in the gap and had fish biting all day on Saturday. For the shallow water we only kept 4 fish threw back one 27 incher but caught primarily saugers. I also knew groups in 28 in the gap and 28 off adrians road and 26 off adrians road. Sounds like we did well in comparison to them.

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Went out of adrians for the weekend in 28 fow, got lots of fish on the vex coming to look at the chubby darter, only 3 hit it, but lots would follow it then go hit the dead sticks with plain hooks. Biggest was only 15 inch, but numbers were high caught about 20 by myself. If your looking for good time team crush will be at the north american ice fishing curcit on 1/9/11 in winnapeg. Lots of nice fish to be had up there.

Big Red over and out

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Two of us fished out Adrian's road. Cory sent us out Friday at 1pm to 25 to 30 foot of water. We set up in 28 foot. Fished Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday morning. Fishing was slow. Caught 20 or so, kept 9, mostly Sauger. Went to shore on Saturday night, found the cleaning houses FULL of nice sized walleye that were caught in 23 to 25 foot. We would have moved shallower if we had more than 3 hours of fishing left.

The fish and bite were more like mid-Feb, than the weekend before Christmas. I do not know if Cory was trying to put us on fish or keeping everyone spread out.

We fished on 22 inches of good ice. No water coming up through the holes. Heading up again before new years.

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This past weekend of fishing wasn’t stellar by any means, but we still caught fish and it was better than last weekend. One thing I will bring up right away this morning is, if you’re fishing on your own, fish the contour lines, humps and dips out in the bowl, that’s were the fish will be traveling. If you don’t know where they’re at, get a GPS system with a Lake Master Chip for Lake of the Woods. I know that some people make it sound so easy, but you have to work for them, just like anything else. The majority of fish that were caught this weekend were in Lighthouse Gap in 26 – 30 feet of water (mostly in 28-29 feet). I did talk to a few guys that stayed at the resort that said they lined up on the US/Canadian line and drilled holes, but there was only one guy catching fish, and it was one right after the other. When that happens, don’t watch him, drill a hole and help him out, because you’ve just found the fish. It was a matter of 50 feet from the bite, to a none existent bite, and some days that’s all that it takes. The weather should be stable as we move into the Christmas holiday season, which should get the fish biting. It’s only a matter of time before they turn on, so don’t miss out when it happens. The last thing I’ll say today is, “that’s why they call it fishing, not catching”…God Bless and Merry Christmas!

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Happy Fishing to all, and to all a good day!

Wigwam Fisherman

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Bump on the Power Pro! I use it year round! Only thing I dont use it for is riggin' Fishing was very slow for our group, we just could not get it going. Maybe next time...

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We fished out of Adrians on the 17,18,19,and 20th in 28fow. My wife did really well, as she always out fishes us guys. She always uses a gold jig. I was using a pink/gold glow. Had at least a dozon on that I lost right toward the top, don't know what that was about. Didn't limit out but stuffed ourselves on a couple of good fish feeds and brought home 10 Saugers, 4 Walleyes and a jumbo Perch. Ice was great. Roads were great. Heading back up over New Years!

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Hey CaptainGary i'd try tweakin my hook and sharpening it with a lil diamond stone if i was loosin alot of fish. Or maybe just changing jigs completely.. Then again we all have one of those days where they just like to get off.. But i guess thats part of what keeps us coming back.. Thanks for the report grin

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only been up to LOW once and taking the wife up there for New Years.....not doing the resort rental deal...just bringin my Frabill Magnum and my truck (no sled) so I'm wondering if anyone has any tips on where to find some good pannies if the walleye fishing doesn't pan (:D) out.....anyone with tips would be greatly appreciated!!!

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Just got back from three days of fishing off pine island. We did pretty well all three days. Got good numbers of sauger, pretty much just had to wait form them to swim by; walleye were pretty tough to pick up for us. Tuesday we got into some quality sauger, got 10 over 14". I picked up 4 walleye on monday, 2 tuesday and 2 yesterday - biggest was pushing 17, smallest as 15". We fished 25-29' the entire time; wasn't hearing much positive about the shallow bite so we didn't even try it.

Hot lures changed day to day. Monday jigging northland glow green was the ticket, Tuesday my buddy iced 13 in two shakes on a pair of gold gem-n-eye jigs. I only had a pout to my name until I changed it up and started wholloping them with a glow w5 jigging rap. Wednesday we tried deepest yet, drilled and found fish waiting for us! I started out good with the glow w5, wound up using that, a beat up stop sign with just a tip of glow paint remaining and a glow pink frostee on the dead stick the rest of the day.

We sat out fishing until 10pm Monday night in my buddies fish house for the solstice. Only marked two fish after dark, so no surprises there! Planned on fishing further west Wednesday, ended up heading back out on Adrian's to help my buddy get his house up and rolling. tired

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JP: First of all great reports, good information and honest too. Just wondering if Jodie used to work at Riverbend? I've been going up there for 11 years, and if she is one and the same she was a good fisherperson back then too, so don't feel to bad. LOL

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OnlyIce: her mom used to work at Riverbend also. They were both great people, friendly always a smile, especially if they were catching fish.... laugh

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fished out of warroad estates today, had some business right in warroad so we went there cause it was close. between two of us we got 8 in the bucket and lost a few others. not the greatest but we got some meals and had a blast. was 17 inches of ice and about 6 inches of snow. i think we were in 16 fow.

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I've noticed when I start losing a lot of minnows it's to those crafty little Saugers that have learn how to just grab hold of the tail of your minnow just waiting for you to set your hook. I've had them grab hold and I've just reeled up with them hanging on all the way up to a couple 3 - 4 ft under the ice before they let go. I usually try catching them and throwing down the other holes to bother the other guys with me, lol. I think they have been caught and release so many times they have learned how to just take the minnows, lol. Keeps you busy trying to hook them for sure.

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Just returned from low fishing was great for me and my wife in 28 fow caught lots of saugers. Then fished shallow in the mornings and evenings in 9 fow in front of Pine Island. We caught afew 17 and 18 inchers also had a 28 incher, 3 25 inchers and a 22 incher. Using red glow stop signs and frozen shiners. Border Bait has lots of live and frozen shiners. Happy Holidays and good luck fishing, going back up tomarrow the 26Th. Hoping the fish are still in the shallows.

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Fished swift ditch the 22-24 in 20 fow. picked up and keep about 6 fish a day eye and sauger. biggest eye was 23 inch, release. one perch and 2 big pout. fished 5 hours a day due to visiting inlaws:( Fish were finiky. graphing many fish but few takers. all in all could have been better and could have been worst.

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Fished rocky point today 33 keepers and 3 slot fish and lots of throw backs the boy took good care of us too.

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Gave everybody the rest of the year off. So am heading up to the Woods tomorrow. Going out of Arnesens until Friday AM. Then will stop by the cabin on roosevelt. Was wingnut and the general working?

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didnt see wingnut and the general is recovering from neck surgery and is doing quit well to i mite add.

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Thanks for the report JP. Love the video's. Just found out I work with one of your relatives down here in Isanti!!! Keep the video's coming they are fun to watch.

CJ

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