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Walleye fishing has picked up a little bit this past weekend for me. Saturday morning we picked up 4 walleye 15.5-19.25" Nothing fast. All before the sun got to high. Rigs and crawlers. 30-40' But after they stop bitting we still continued to mark lots of fish.. Put the camera down and it was unbelievable. Walleye all over. I tried everything but no takers. Saturday night went back out and 3 more. Marked allot of fish again but none would bite.. Well Sunday was very tough. The wind was roaring.. Only managed 1. Water temp still at the 68° mark. It will only get better.

 

 

Marbleye

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Hey Marbleye,

Thanks for the update. I'll be on Ida this weekend at a friends cabin. Have not fished out there since last year. Are you getting them off the humps, or have they moved to the shore structure now?

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We fished the mid lake humps. No weed line where we found them.

I'm going to try to get there this weekend again.. Good Luck!

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Nice fish marbleye. I can't help but to ask myself why I don't seem to get the boat out there more in Oct. This fall isn't lining up to allow much fishing either. Oh well. I guess the dogs have had to watch me fish all summer so now it's their turn to get in on some action (even though I'm not ruling out a quickie trip!!).

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Thanks for the info Marbleye. I'm going with some friends to fish Muskie on Meltona Thursday and Friday morning, then I'm on Ida for the rest of Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. My friend, who has a place on Ida only fishes bass and muskie, so he is no help on where to go. :-) Guess I'll be starting on the humps and moving around from there. Blue Lund with a 50 Evenrude, if you see me out there stop and say hello.

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marble eye question for you. When you put the camera down and see walleyes do you see smallmouth bass with them. Curious because a lake i fish ill catch a few eyes then they shut off and the bass start. Dont have a camera of my own any more.

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Slurpie, I can't say i've seen smallies with the walleye's on this lake. I've seen plenty of large mouth though. I talked with my dad today and he sad that he caught 8 walleye's yesterday morning. All on Redtails. Still out on the mid lake humps. 32-42' of water. The temp drop 4 degrees in one day.

Hey Wave Wacker.. The last spot I saw you on a few weeks back still has plenty of fish on it. That was one of the spots that we saw numerous walleye's but no takers at all last weekend..

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Yeah, it sure was hard last weeekend having my duck boat hooked up instead of the fishing boat with the lack of duck activity. I think I'm going to have to retire the duck hunting thing and just fish on the duck opener.

Marbleye...your dad find his fish on a different spot? Not that it matters as unfortunately I think the boat is done for the year. I may get a wild hair to run up this weekend but really should get some things done around home. We'll see.

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I'm heading up this weekend, lows in the 30's and possibly a little wintery mix.

WW - do you chase ducks around the Alex area or are you down towards the cities?

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Well I guess I don't really duck hunt. Between other outdoor "hobbies" being much more enjoyable for me and farming activities I have to prioritize my habits and duck hunting takes a back seat. When I do "dabble" in it, it's kind of both up at Alex. and on the farm at home.

Up at Alex. I was exactly 2 miles W of Co Rd 6 (the tar that runs N/S on the W side of Lake Ida). It was very sad. Very, very little ducks seen. Now admittingly so, the father in-law and a couple of the family friends bought about 60 acres years ago (when waterfowl hunting was out of this world out there I guess) of which 3/4 is broken down into 3 open water wetland areas in which I just hunt my typical spot out there. In other words, no scouting to see if there were birds anywhere else. But a person will typically at least see some "buzzing" around. Not this time out.

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WW. He found the fish north of that spot. Very far north. Kinda a new spot for us. 35yrs on the lake and still finding new areas to fish.. Hopefully heading there this weekend.

Marbleye.

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It was slow for me last weekend. Only got a couple. I don't know the lake, so I basically tried every hump I could find. Friday was really choppy, so had trouble staying on spots where I was marking fish, but managed to get a couple.

Saturday I marked quite a few fish, but could not get them to take a look. Slow and cold day on the water.

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Anyone else trying it this weekend? Looks like a little snow is in the forecast. I'll be out there giving it a whirl.

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Unfortunately I've broken down and fully committed to getting things done around home (maybe a little rooster chasing and/or bow hunting with the cold weather). What I think that essentially means is that I have to say goodbye to Ida for this soft water season.

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I was just at Lake Ida tonight and thought I would update those who would like to know. Ida is almost completely open still. I don't know if it has frozen over and blown open a couple of times - I was very surprised to see it open when I was there. I figured when one of the posters on here said there was 2" of ice on Miltona on Sunday that Ida would be locked up with a decent amount of ice, but that was not the case.

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There is 8 inches of ice on Little Ida right out from the resort. There are about 15 fish houses out in the bay already.

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I have a friend fishing Ida today. He said there was 8 inches out a couple hundred yards, and then about 6 inches where he is fishing about 400-500 yards out. Some heaving by shore, but once he got out about 100 yards, it was clear smooth ice.

I'm hoping to get out there soon! Good luck everyone.

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Just talked to a friend who was on Ida today. He said there was 4 inches of water on top of the ice, and he was bailing out the sled on his portable house. Yuck! Hoping for a hard freeze, I'm headed that way on Tuesday morning.

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Fishin-Ida, just wondering how the ice is doing out from your place after all this snow? Was thinking about coming out from the resort if you don't have to much water on your roads. How much ice do you have out there now?

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I was out yesterday on Ida and the slush is starting up around the edges of the lake and about 400 yrds out were we set up the water came up about 2" on top of the ice from drilling holes, didn't measure the ice but appeared to be about 10". I would guess the snow on average is at least a foot deep on the lake, without a road you will need a sled.

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