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What a week it was. I fished 5 days this past week and for the most part it was great walleye fishing. Monday started out with fishing weeds and finding excellent numbers of 15” to 16” fish with a 27” in the mix. Only fished 4 hours and had well over 20 walleyes. (off Tuesday). Wednesday and Thursday I had a client that has a place on the big lake and wanted to fish multiple spots. I had him last year also and he is a great guy to fish with. Over the 2 days we fished a total of 7 spots (areas) and boated 57 walleyes. Every spot we fished had active walleyes. Some spots had mostly slot fish and some spots had mostly keeper size fish. This client was not keeping fish the first day but on the second day we caught so many we each decided to keep a limit.

 

Now for Friday and Saturday the report is much different. On Thursday me and my guest finished off a great day on a spot that saw a dozen fish in just over an hour. This spot was hot. Well my Friday trip didn’t start till 1pm and of course I went to where I had left hot fish the afternoon before. Wow what a difference 20 hours makes. I fished it hard for 2 hours and only boated 2 walleyes. With only a couple hours left of the trip I made a move to another spot I had done well the day before but the bite had cooled and we only boated 6 more in 3 hours of fishing. With Friday being a blue bird day And Saturday’s weather looking to be interesting I had high hopes and I had the same clients from Friday. Well we had wind and clouds but the bite did not come back and we only boated 6 walleyes before getting blown and rained off the lake. We were caught in one down pour that was laughable.

 

As for presentation, the week started out with as good supply of spot tails and we jigged up a lot of walleyes early in the week on them. On Friday when I went to get bait the spot tails were gone and rumored not to come back. I used Goldie’s on Friday but I think the fish were just off. However tactics will change the next time out for me. We found fish in 9’ to 15ft thru the week. We have plucked walleyes out of weeds, rocks, sand flats(both on and off shore) and near breaks this past week. I expect fishing remain good thru June as it usually does with some days being better than others as of course but fish being had.

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  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators

Wow, awesome report and pics Tom!!!

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    • gimruis
    • TenthousandLakes
      I must be real lucky, caught another healthy one, 30"  in the shallows tonight less than 6 FOW.    
    • leech~~
      Dude, I already trolled that spot, nothing but slimmers!  😄 Glad I saved money by stopping smoking a while ago. It's free most of the summer now! Been calm and yellow out for days! 🤧
    • leech~~
      Bet you would enjoy a nice paddle down the Cahulawassee River, too then. 😏
    • delcecchi
      Talked to my neighbor is getting ready for a trip via fall lake.    They use small boats with like 10 to 25 hp outboards and portage wheels.   There are two portages to get into pipestone bay, with the second one being over a hill.   From pipestone they can go around to Jackfish? bay,   There is a big sign to warn about where the no motors area is.    
    • Wanderer
      Don’t go!!!   I mean, that’s what they say anyway.
    • Kettle
    • leech~~
      Seems like a long way to climb, to sight in a gun! 😐
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the South End... The walleye and sauger bite continues to be very good with anglers enjoying consistent action.  As we transition into fall, fish are being found at various depths, but 25 - 32 feet of water has been consistent. Jigging continues to pick up as the waters cool.  Water temps this week are down to 64.  Top jig colors this week include gold, orange, chartreuse, and pink.  For some anglers, big numbers caught this week jigging with frozen emerald shiners on the lake.   Some anglers are jigging on or adjacent to structure.  Others are finding schools of walleyes and saugers out over deep mud.  Using sonar to find fish is helpful.     Spinners and trolling crankbaits continue to produce fish as well.  This is a transition time where multiple presentations are working.  As the season progresses, jigging will take over as the top technique.     For those pulling spinners, gold, pink, orange, glow red, or glow white has been successful. Adjust your weights to 2 - 3 ounces to match the depth and speed you are drifting / trolling. Trolling crankbaits is still producing nice walleyes.  Some goto colors are gold, chrome / blue, pink UV firetiger, and chartreuse.     More and more walleyes are showing up along the south shore.  It seems things are gravitating towards fall patterns where good numbers of the fish are both chasing shiners and moving closer to shorelines.  The bite has been excellent and is really shaping up nicely for the fall jig bite both on the lake and in the Rainy River. On the Rainy River... A variety of species continue to be caught on the Rainy River.  Nice current flow is providing fall anglers some optimism for this year's fall shiner and walleye run being a banner year.  Some reports of nice walleyes being caught in the river already this week.   There are reports of shiners in the river all the way up to Birchdale.  Things seem to be setting up nice for a great fall on the river.  Mother Nature will have the final say of course. Sturgeon fishing is picking up with cooling waters.  Anglers anchor up and use a combination of crawlers and frozen emerald shiners on a sturgeon rig with a flat no roll sinker.     Find a hole in the river or simply mark these big fish in an area, anchor up and soak some crawlers! Up at the NW Angle... Walleye fishing up at the NW Angle remains really good. Fish are being found in many areas.  Structure, neck down areas as well as on the flats.   Some good fish are still holding in the deep mud east and northeast of Little Oak Island in the mud.  Areas around Four Blocks, and north of Garden Island producing fish as well.    As on the south end, jigging, spinners / crawlers and trolling crankbaits are all producing walleyes.   Smallmouth bass, pike and muskies are also being caught, both by unsuspecting walleye anglers and when targeted.  As the waters cool, crappies and jumbo perch are also showing up nicely for anglers.    
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