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2020 Lake of the Woods Fishing Reports & Info


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well ill be out chasin those for the next 3 days im thinking about trying out boars spot =0)

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I'll be out too, springsteel with a rather large loud drunken group!!! Can you drive out last casino?? Or springsteel? And Anywhere close by to catch a walleye tomorrow night??

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Out off arnesons...25-30 ft...3 lil eyes 1 fat 10lb pout. Lameville..guy next to us had 12 sauger...tip UPS tomorrow, screw the walleyes

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Until you see it raining up there for a couple of days...forget about ice out. RAIN=ICE GOING AWAY

Sure the sun and warm weather can do wonders...but a good spring shower is always the deciding factor IMO

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Just got back,went out of Morris Pt.Fri afternoon and evening was slowww kept 3 eater saugs and releasaed a 22" walleye,sat am was slowww too! so we moved...we were In 26' out from morris.We moved over to the wetern area of Pine island In about 22' during the day It was slow but we atleast were marking fish.We did have a good flury for the last hour and again for the first hour of sun am.all fish that were kept 13"-16".bobbers and jigging did about the same..

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Made the trip to the Wheeler's Pt area this weekend to retrieve the wheel house for the season.

3/26: Set the house in 15' of water just North of the main river channel in Lighthouse Gap. Marked limited fish, caught 3 and kept one in a few hours of fishing. Water was murkier than average, decided to try deeper along the Canadian border. Stopped in 27' on a contour that looked like a ween and fished the cusp. Ended up catching fish instantly, nothing crazy, but better action than in shallow. We ran back to shore around noon and on our way back out tried multiple spots closer to Morris Pt and the big pine without marking a fish. Headed back to 27' North of Lighthouse and again had consistant action. Decided to try back in 15' at 5 pm - fished until 7pm and marked 2 fish which was pretty disapointing. Made the executive decision to try our spot deeper and it was lights out. My partner caught several fish in a row, literally as fast as he could get his line to the bottom. Nothing was huge as many 10-14" sauger were caught, but we ended the day with 12 keepers, nothing smaller than 12", and only one of which was a walleye. Estimate we caught 30-40 fish during the day on Saturday.

Once it got dark we yanked the house from 15' and moved to 27'. We decided to fish for some Biebers overnight via rattle reel and ended up icing a 20-1/4" eye at 11pm. Random for LOTW, but fun.

3/27/11: Woke up and started fishing at 6:45am, caught our first fish at 7:05. Fishing was spectacular. Quit at 11:30 to head home and had 72 fish on the counter. Again, nothing big, but as many sauger as you could shake a stick at. Finished of our limit with ease and threw back a 17" eye, a legit 16" sauger and multiple sauger 12-14". A fun way to end the season in the wheel house.

Overall the shallow gap was a bust. Out of the 100 or so fish only 5 were walleye, 1 being a low slot fish. Travel on the lake with a truck is awesome as all of the snow and slush is rock hard; however, you do have to take it slow as there are many deep ruts. There is still a ton of ice as smaller extensions would not make it through. No reason the ice won't be fishable through the walleye season.

Heading back up the weekend of 4/9 with ATV's to finish the season off.

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After fishing this weekend I think its going to be a while even with a big warmup. Ice hasn't been touched and a few guys with short extensions couldn't punch through. We'll be heading back up 4/9 with ATV's to get after it.

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Wife, Son, and I fished Morris Point Saturday to Monday morning.

Saturday - started out in 20'. Popped a 16"er right away, then nothing. Moved to 30' around 11am. Nothing. Moved to 24' at 2pm. Nothing until about 6pm. Then we were busy. All small eaters. Enough for dinner.

Sunday morning at 7am - bang!!! Busy with 15" to 17" males for 45 minutes. Could not keep the lines going. Then nothing until 5pm or so - then pretty constant bite til 8pm. Ended up with 3 larger sauger and 10 eyes. Wife got a 21.5" slot eye. I ended up with a 23", 24", and a 25".

Monday morning up at 6:30am. Picked up a nice sauger, a 16" eye, and threw back a 15" anticipating another 16"er for our take home limit. Nothing after that. Packed up at 10am. 6th or 7th trip of the year. Had a great time.

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Hey man its hard to move with all the clothes it takes to put over this ponderous bulk of ripplin' mass of Adonas type body.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Adrian Adonis of AWA fame maybe!!!

Great Fishing there Bro Boar.. One of these times I am going have to hire you out as you end up catching all the fish for me anyways!!!! Family discount or Pity discount apply?

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Well bro, wen it comes to family it'd have to be the pity dicount hehehe. You know all's ya have to call an i'll set it up. Trade ya for some shootin' this summer. Later bro, boar

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Hoey thanks for the report , my son and I are going up sat morning over pine Jp says 25ft is hot I keep getting talked into one last trip before getting boat ready, but won't be as busy as boat landings..Zippell kinda fizzled at the end for us lots of small ones.will have the walley Inn back out next year.Terry

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Dang. We are planning a shed trip for Easter weekend and where gonna bring the boat with to access some islands. I hope it possible

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Get after em Walleye Inn. Sure seemed that the schools of fish were on the move. For us the weather was steady, but un-seasonably cool, and with a NE wind 10-15 mph - anything E seems to shut the fish down. I just checked the weather forecasts and you should be in for steadily increasing temps and winds manageable out the the south on Thurs and NW on Fri/Sat, switching to the E on Sunday.

Report back!!!

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Any recent pike reports over by springsteel/warroad/swift?? Hows the ice and hows the bite been??

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went out on the pond out of Wigwam on sat tried 24 ft then27 and moved over in front of Morris then proceeded to work our way back across Pine Island to the east caught 3 to8 fish at each spot nothing reallly grreat but action no slots biggest 16" we were hoping for more but just didn't hit the hotspot. took wheelers out but there were some trucks out also. It was a beautiful day sat weather wise, went out on the ice at 6:15 this morning in 14 ft. got soaking wet due to the wet heavy snow fished til 9 caught 2 keepers went and had a great breakfast at Wigwam and thawed out. time to get boat ready good luck and be careful some big holes starting to show up on the ice and getting very soft.

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Fished swift Ditch Friday and Saturday.

8 guys Friday- 1 37" and 2 small ones.

13 guys Saturday- 1 40" and 2 small ones.

Very very poor. Friday was cloudy, saturday was warm and sunny and both days sucked.

36" of ice on the lake and you could drive whatever you wanted.

We heard of a ford ranger going through though.

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Fished swift Ditch Friday and Saturday.

8 guys Friday- 1 37" and 2 small ones.

13 guys Saturday- 1 40" and 2 small ones.

Very very poor. Friday was cloudy, saturday was warm and sunny and both days sucked.

36" of ice on the lake and you could drive whatever you wanted.

We heard of a ford ranger going through though.

I was out Friday afternoon and Saturday and I think we got 3 between 12 of us. Pretty sucky for my first time tip up fishing. Should only get better from here on out i guess!

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Boar are you going to give it another shot at some flags this weekend? Should be really nice weather. I believe the end is in site with the temps for the next several days. If you go out hope you find the big 'uns. Be safe. Bill

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Hey bill, might try sat still up in the air, have reports of ice getting tough in some areas, sometimes its good to save some for next year. Still have to post some pics of my buds trip last weekend, a 13 yr old took a 40.5 an is putting a 43 7/8 on the wall. Take care bill, later boar

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Wow, those are some nice gators...Be safe if you head out. Water temps not too good for swimmin yet....

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Yea my buds group had 5 over forty numerous slots an some smokers, best day he said that he can remember since he started flagin' Safty boar is actually my full, thanks for the concern bill. Later boar

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30" as of 4/11 at 10am...the auger was chewing it up in chunks though, the shavings looked like marbles.

Its definately not very strong, but there is still a decent amount. Its going to be a couple weeks especially with the cooler temps on their way.

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Stayed and landed at Morris Point - fished in front of both gaps, out from the pine, out 8 miles, out from the the resort.

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