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The opener has come and gone for another year. The weather was dandy for this opener wind and cold, I am still shivering from sunday on the lake, Then we had the rest of the week rain, its been very interesting. The fish seem to think so to. Saturday was decent on leech lake, with quite a few fish coming in the morning in the 7-9 ft of water with a gumball and shiner. then in the afternoon it got tough for us the fish just seem to disappear. The pattern on leech seems to  to be the same for the rest of the week the water cooled down and so did the fishing.
Winnie had a glimmer of hope for the weekend with a few reports of fish being caught in their usual haunts. The river channel, tamarack, plughat, ravens and mallard all had some fish coming in on Saturday and then like the other lakes in the area fishing got a bit tough when the water cooled. Jig and shiner was the key for winnie in the 7-9 ft of water.
hopefully his week will bring alittle better weather and pick up the fishing abit we will see
good luck fishing
 
Jason Boser
Fishing Fever Guide Service
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Jason....Winnie is tough right now!  Water temps still in the 50's.  The fishing does improve a little in the evening. High banks was producing some fish for us in 16-18 fow.  We need some heat and things will improve......I hope. 

Croz

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If the water heats up a bit the shiners will start coming in to spawn and you would think that would improve fishing a bit.

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We're just east of Winnie & last time out(Sunday) I found 54 for surface temps

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Any idea of how much the lake has come up since opener?

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Any idea of how much the lake has come up since opener?

​I would guess it has come up about 4"-6" .... we have gotten around 5" of rain in the last week up there.

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At the cabin I had about a foot of sand between my rocks and water on opener.  It is all covered now, definitely still low but greatly improved! Croz

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About 6-8" here as the dock was just a little too high last week,perfect now.We've dumped just about  5.25 in just over a week 

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whats going on up there

no chatter here ??????????

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Been wondering the same.We're only 5-6 miles from the Mosomo Pt. landing & when we went to Grand Rapids today early there was only 2 units in the lot.On our way back,about noon, it was only 1 more. FWIW,I overheard a couple of guys talking in town & they were saying it had been pretty slow over there. 

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Been fishing winnie basically the whole month of June.   Currently the fish are out on the humps. Mark the fish on your electronics and they will bite for the most part.  Key recently has been snell length 6-7 feet, and getting your bait off the bottom.  Crawlers were the key blowing up the crawler made a huge difference.  Finally caught some keeper fish and some 10-11 inchers have been showing up,which is good,to see.  On Wednesday we boated several fish and they measured from 10- 25 inches just about  everywhere in between.  Night fishing has been good  pulling plugs in 12-14 fow, Has been effective for me.  Seem to get a lot more keeper fish....good luck !   Croz

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tcroz, sounds like Jay and I might be up the end of july! You gona be around????

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Biz.....I plan on being up there until the school bell rings!   See you then!!!!

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tcroz, is there a mayfly hatch going on or just finishing over there too?

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Gunner was out today and there has been a small hatch nothing major though.   Fishing has actually been very good.  Just hard to get box fish.  I've been on the humps pulling lindy rigs and doing well.  Not a fish under 18 since Thursday though!!!!

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