Lake of the Woods - Zippel Bay Fishing Reports

[walleyeking19]

My famiily and I went up to LOTW this past week and stayed at Zippel Bay. My dad and I went up last year and caught 180 some fish in 3 days so we talked it up and got my brothers and mom's hopes up...that was a bad idea. Fishing was very slow. 5 of us got 31 fish in 2 and a half days.

I tried getting outside and moving around. Too bad it was a zoo outside by us. Our house was in 25 ft and and i tried every depth imaginable. Got 1 sauger outside. I found out lure choice didnt make a difference. we got them on gold, pink, red, black, white, perch color, orange and yellow. Every fish we marked we caught. The problem is, that we didnt mark many.

we got 5 walleyes, all 15 or 16 inches. One had line wrapped around its gills, so i'm guessing it wasnt going to make it much longer. also got 2 big pouts. biggest was 10 lbs. The rest were saugers, and we got enough nice ones to eat a meal every night.

All in all, it was a fun trip, just the fish were copperating. The igloo was pretty cool, we hung out there and meet some nice people. I hope it was better for everyone else!

[rcguy]

We were up at Zipple the same dates and had about the same luck. We had the shallow sleeper in about 15 feet and caught a few Saugers and had the deeper day house in 25 feet and caught a few more Saugers and a couple of Walleyes. Saugers were small and the Walleyes were maybe 15 or 16 inchers. 30 fish total for 2 guys over 2 days. May have to try it again later in the season!

[pike doctor]

December 26th, 27th, 28th

My group of four guys fished out of Zipple Bay for the first time ever for these three days and did ok.

Day 1 = 67 fish

Day 2 = 45 fish

Day 3 = 45 fish

157 fish total for the trip. 2 pout, 1 northern, 1 perch, 14 walleyes, and the rest were sauger. We had one slot fish. A twenty five inch. Lost another big one, and then had one massive sturgeon take our doodle bug on a rattle reel.

Rattle reels did better than jigging. Most of the saugers we caught were puking up little young of the year perch. So we used a lot of perch colored lures. We stayed away from the crowds and it sounds like we did much better than everyone else.

[larson311]

I tried getting outside and moving around. Too bad it was a zoo outside by us.

There's your problem...you won't catch anything up there fishing next to a ton of people like that. Get away from the pack and you will have better luck. I was up there on the 26th and hit them hard..."away from the zoo"

[bowana]

first time low in feb mid what is the slot ? for walley,?

[Dry_Fly]

you can have 8 Sauger or 4 Walleye and 4 Sauger with a total not more than 8 fish each. No more than 4 walleye for your limit with none between 19.5" to 28" must be released. You can keep 1 over 28" but it would be part of the 4 limit on Walleyes.

[BrdHunter01]

you can have 8 Sauger or 4 Walleye and 4 Sauger with a total not more than 8 fish each. No more than 4 walleye for your limit with none between 19.5" to 28" must be released. You can keep 1 over 28" but it would be part of the 4 limit on Walleyes.

Is the limit diff in the summer?

[Dry_Fly]

Page 49 2010 Minnesota Fishing Regulations

May 15, 2010 - Nov. 30, 2010 6 (not more than 4 can be Walleye; only 1 walleye over 28.0"; walleye 19.5" through 28" must be immediately released.)

Dec. 1, 2010 - April 14th, 2011 8(Not More than 4 can be walleye; only 1 walleye over 28"; walleye 19.5" through 28.0" must be immediately released.)

[fisherizzo47]

Zippel Bay Dec. 30th, 31st, and Jan. 1st.----Resort houses. 2 People.

Dec. 30th---27FOW---25 Walleye-Sauger(half and half)/2 elepout. Kept 6; 4 Walleyes 15-17 inches, 2 15 inch saugers. Fishing was OK. They weren't very aggresive. Most fish were caught off a pink glow jig on a bobber.

Dec. 31st---21FOW--- 15 Walleye-sauger--1 jumbo perch. kept 7 (8 including the perch)-- I caught my biggest walleye on LOW, 29inch-10.15lbs. Fish was released. It came in rather easy (4lb test), one big run and that was it. I got her up to the hole and she came up the hole with her mouth wide open, I took me like 2 seconds to realize that it wasn't not an elepout, so I got all excited and basically through my hand in her mouth. It was fun.

Jan. 1st---we went back to 27 FOW. 2 14 inch saugers. kept both. Very slow day; the storm shut them off big time. We had 2 other bites, but the they were just suckin on the minnows.

would post pics but do not know how to.......

[walleyeking19]

would post pics but do not know how to.......

just go down a little bit and right above the text box there are a few boxes. click on the one with the sunset and little blue arrow. it's the 5th from the left. Its easy after that

[fisherizzo47]

they are greater than 3MB, so they will not let me post.

[shamrock7]

Go to a picture viewer on your computer, bring up the picture and you should have a "resize" option. Just resize to a small picture and save. You should be good to upload then.

[fisherizzo47]

[toughguy]

Nice pics. I'm leaving for Zippel in 10 days. Can't wait.

[eyeowegian]

Same here...be there the 13th!!

[goose89]

Headed up to Zip Wed am thru Fri afternoon. Hope to post similar results. Good luck all.

[mnhunter 3815]

nice pics.im headed to zipple tomorrow mornin to go move my house out of a big snow bank.will there till thursday.im there once a week for 3 days.so far the fishing hasnt been fast but been decent for us.time to move house and explore.

[Beast26]

We are pulling the wheeled house up to fish out of Zipple 1/14-1/18 (first time not renting). So now I have a bunch of questions...

How much snow is now on the ice? How much ice is there?

I have the lakemaster chip for LOW but I noticed almost zero structure in the bay.....what should I look for and around what depth would you start out in? If you don't want to post in here let me know and I can email you directly.

Anyone else going to be up there that weekend?

[mnhunter 3815]

send me an e-mail mnhunter [email protected] but no space between th r and ythe numbers i have to post it that cause this site doesnt like my name lol if that dont work send your e-mail

[Beast26]

Thanks email sent

[Boar]

Hey MNhunter, cant wait to see you posted results, heading up Friday mourning to set up the perm. Good luck boar

[Walleye Inn]

Hi guy I too will try again this weekend thinking sat morning early good luck mnhunter had sonme buddies up during storm on boober st they did ok lost two bigguns at the hole

[Boar]

Hey terry, where do ya think on trying?

[mnhunter 3815]

k ill check it out

[mnhunter 3815]

sweet ill look into it

[mnhunter 3815]

i might need the luck lol i'll post asap when i get home.

[mnhunter 3815]

e-mail sent

[Effie07]

Hey Beast, I will bringing up my wheelhouse the night of the 14th and fishing the weekend. Black 20' Ice Castle with diamond stamp metal 24" skirt all around. Most likely coming up with my Dad and his truck, 02' Chevy 4 door 1/2ton HD. If you see more than one setup matching this discription, look for the extremely hyper german wirehair running around outside my house.

[Beast26]

Hey Beast, I will bringing up my wheelhouse the night of the 14th and fishing the weekend. Black 20' Ice Castle with diamond stamp metal 24" skirt all around. Most likely coming up with my Dad and his truck, 02' Chevy 4 door 1/2ton HD. If you see more than one setup matching this discription, look for the extremely hyper german wirehair running around outside my house.

We will be in an 8x16 Ice Castle (mostly white) being pulled by a White Chevy Silverado.

[Walleye Inn]

Hey boar wherever Deanna says the best depth is but i do have a hot spot from this fall on gps gotta try it it was very good mnhunter will look for report thanks