fishing reports 2020 Lake of the Woods Fishing Reports & Info

[Walleye Inn]

snow was settling pretty good the road on the lake was prety decent the bay was getting pretty wet though.A guy might be pulling them off before the end of the month Good luck next weekend .catching enough to keep coming up with the chance at the big one,Deanna said there was a 31.5 ,29 and a 27 out of there houses sat.the 27" was just two houses down from us.it's a nice feeling when the drag goes out for a while .

[LOTWSvirgin]

Any pike showing up?? Can you share if you were jigging or deadsticking?? Maybe decent color that worked this weekend. I will be up there 2maro. Maybe even see the famous Walleye inn. Would you care if I took my pic in front of it. lol

[mnhunter 3815]

yes it was great meeting you and your wife.we moved our house about 1/2 mile down from where i was on bobber we only caught 1 16 incher and 22incher till moved by the walleye inn.it sounded like it was a hit and miss on lake this weekend.talking to nick saturday night 1 guy caught 29 incher and other casught 43 inch northern.we are headed back up on thursday till saturday.will let ya know how we did.

[mnhunter 3815]

i was using red lindy rattlin flyer,and for my deadstick i was changing alot.i used green and yellow jig with minnow my brother was using red gem n eye.green buckshot and the blue pink and white worked.

[mrmanners]

Decided to Go out of Morris Point and I should have gone to Long Point (Doh). Morris Points Roads are in great shape and they do an excellent job plowing some off shots for wheel houses. It goes out about 7.5 miles the only issue is they are on NO structure. I thought for sure they would go towards one of the Graceton reefs or over to the morris gap but no, they just go out a ways and then north west until you reach 33'. Fishing was poor to fair at best with 20 fish over two days. Three keeper fish (if you could call them that) 2 14" walleyes and one 13" Sauger with one solid 23" within the slot. The rest were all 8"-12" sauger/walleyes with more Sauger then eyes in both depths. Some odd things out in this giant flat are the saugers came in at any where from a foot off the bottom to five feet up. Anything above that seemed to be walleyes and they nailed jigging raps/darters. The Saugers wanted very small crappie style jigs and did not do much when presented with spoons of varying colors.

[Freewheeler]

Was up to the pond this weekend and fishing seemed to be on the slow side compared to what it had been previous. Weather was beautiful and warm temps made for some relaxing fishing. Saturday made it interesting going up to the angle in the fog but things cleared up nicely later in the morning. Caught a mixed bag of walleye and small sauger north of little oak, and also a humongus tullabe/whitefish that weighed in at 7lbs 4oz. Took a digital pic of it but my computer skills don't allow me to post it.[any help here?] Few people in our group fished Morris Point wash area as evening set in but were disapointed in the meager results, and alot of other fishermen in the same area. Snowmobile trails were in exellent shape going across with pockets of fisherman and houses scattered through out. Fishing should only get better from this point on, like the weather.

[Jim Panfish Uran]

If you can email me the pic I'll post it for you Freewheeler. email is in my signature.

[Walleye Inn]

go ahead and take a pic, we used gold with white glow jig and gold with pink gold toms tackle i think were the brand about 3 to 6" off the bottom and had to jig them every 30 seconds or so sometimes raise up a foot.hope some more nice 18" will show up and not so many dinks. thinking I might pull the Inn off this weekend?leaving the wife home maybe I can get a bigger one haha

[bmc]

6 of us were up over the weekend. We went out of Bayview Lodge as usual. GREAT FISHING!!! Saturday we kept 38, pretty much 50/50 walleyes and saugers. We probably thew back that many little ones too. Had a great fish fry Saturday night and went back out Sunday, which was slow. We kept 13 and threw back double that. Big fish of the weekend were a 23" and a 21" (walleyes) that were CPR'd.

The house next to ours had a 29" on Saturday and a 28.50" on Sunday.

35' of water about 14 miles off of Pine Island. Orange and gold seemed to be the best colors (Northland Forage Spoons). I had good luck w/ a glow Lindy Darter.

BBQ'ing on the tailgate in T-shirts the 1st weekend in March.....it don't get any better than that!

Adrians road was OK, but this warm weather is definitely causing some havoc with it.

Brian

[bdubs78]

I had decent luck using a white glow jig with a pink tip, and the usual glow pink and gold. Tried using a west river sutter spoon this weekend for the first time and couldnt believe how effective it was. Might be the sharpest hooks in my tackle box. I checked the forecast for this week and its looking like more warm days, with a chance of rain. Thinking I should probably get the sleeper off this weekend.

[mnhunter 3815]

ya im thinkin the same way might just have to take the house off early saturday mornin.i rather keep it out there 1 more week but will see.house on or off ice fishing up there is far from over

[dogs]

Out on Whiskey Flats for a few days this weekend; about 10 fish per guy both days, really slow Sun.

[Jim Panfish Uran]

Freewheelers fish!!! That's a nice fish, what is it? A tulibee or a whitefish? I can't see his mouth good enough. Nice hat though!!!

[Meat-Run]

He must have really short legs or in some REALLY deep snow!? Just kidding nice fish!

mr

[Freewheeler]

Thanks, It's a Whitefish. Mouth is farther underneath and didn't have that stinky Tullibee smell either. Was still a pretty good fighter and was my suprise fish of the day. Maybe its the Hat! Yes the snowbank was deep and wet!

[Effie07]

Hey Walleye, it was nice to meet a fellow FMer at the Greenbush Cenex. Talked to you when I was picking up some minnows, how did you like driving in that fog. I needed a few beers around 8am to recover! Anyways, 3/8 orange buckshot pounding the bottom or dead stick gold/pink choker from Tom's Tackle assortment worked best on Saturday at Zipple(furthest house west on honeyhole with a snowman outside thanks to my daughter), still was very slow for us. Moved to long point on Sunday morning after talking to a few people at the hotel and did very well over there compared to Saturday. Fished outside all day Sunday and my face is more than a little red, but it was worth it.

[WallEYES]

FREEWHEELER....Was that you guys out there on Saturday north of litle oak? I was fishing just up towards the island from you and a little to the south west of you...just 2 of us... we got out there around noon and stayed till sunset...we did all right in that spot..caught a very beautiful pike there along with some perch, eyes, and sauger.

[Freewheeler]

That'd be me. Purple/Otter&sled. Were you in the SnoBear?

[WallEYES]

Nope we were fishing outside out of our shelters...the snow bear was in front of us.....seems you had a a very chatty woman with you guys?

[sportfish]

what depth has been best ? has the shallows been good in the morning and evenings

[Freewheeler]

Nope. Wrong group. White SnoBear pulled up 35ft NW of me and drilled and parked for all day. Nobody with me or near me untill then.

[Bigslugger]

Fishing has been SLOW everywhere from hearing from lots of people. Not much to show for us from Sat to Today, but we have till Sunday so hopefully things will turn around.

Went from the angle to Pine Island and just enough for a meal for 7 guys in those days

[trophyhunt28]

terry it was nice to meet you and your wife. We appreciate the tip,and enjoyed talking with you.Hope to see you again next season.keep your lines wet,talk to you later. jim

[kingr]

4 of us fished out of Borderview Friday & Saturday. We fished up by Knight Island both days. It was very slow. We kept 5 fish on Friday and 7 on Saturday. Didn't even catch many cigars to keep us busy.

Sunday we went out on 16 mile on the way home. We salvaged the trip Sunday morning. 2 of us kept 10 and threw two 21"ers back from 9am - 1pm.

The rumor on the street on Saturday was Ballards had 200 people fishing Friday and the guides cleaned 201 fish.

[dougger222]

Will be up there next Monday-Wed/Thur in the sleeper house. Plan to use it as a base camp and go out with portables/atv's. Any regulars going to up there then?

As far as the more recent reports shallow has not be the best. Most people are getting the fish deep but with a lot of small ones mixed in.

[DoubleLunger]

Hey Effie, were you fishin on the east road or west and how deep were ya? Headin up tonight. Any help would be great.

THANKS

[whitecaps]

some buddies and I are coming up tomorrow and I was wondering if you can still run sleds on the lake or if I should bring the boat instead! We'll be staying at long pt. any info would be appreciated, thanks

[Hunter21]

there was still 3.5 ft of ice as of tuesday up on long point, my 8x16 sleeper is still up there in teh staging area so i hope it still good haha

[UPnorthFISHING]

3.5 ft of ice???everywhere i have been on the west side was 25-27 inches of ice....

[Effie07]

West and as far north as the road goes out from Twin Islands, but the guys we talked to at the hotel were out beyond the big group of houses on the East road and did better than use. Saw some of the eye's they pulled in the cleaning house at the Americinn, very respectable fish.