2016 Detroit Lakes Area Fishing Reports

[paceman]

My days of fishing pretty much fall off the table in the fall. Coaching my little guys FB team is really fun but also a huge time suck. We had our first practice August 1st and will have our last game October 23. In between there are 4000 other things that need to be done. Also I just love bow hunting so that get's pretty much all my free time. I fish a lot before then so I am OK with not going much in late summer. With that being said my boat is still in the garage charged up and ready to roll at a moments notice. I will get out once more for sure, maybe twice but probably not. I would just rather be up in a tree than on the lake.

[Chill62]

Paceman I know what you mean.  I hunt over by Ada and haven't seen anything on my trail cameras that even makes me think I should be in a tree stand though!  I'm hoping after harvest since we started so early this year I can get in one over Halloween.

[paceman]

Chill62, I am in the same boat. I have 5 cameras out on 3 different properties around DL. Lots of does/fawns and smaller bucks. I know there are big ones in the area, just have to be patient until they show up. I will use my management tag on a nice doe if given the chance and then wait for big one. I will hunt pretty hard Halloween through November. Archery, rifle, muzzy, then perhaps late archery. I like to save a tag for hunting in the snow:)

[Chill62]

We sadly weren't drawn for any doe tags, so I guess its bucks only for this year.  I'm hoping to try and get out this weekend if I can find the time.  I'm getting tired of running nights on ends in the combines.  But boy are the deer hitting those freshly cut corn fields in the middle of the night!

[Chill62]

Page has been quiet.  Everyone out fishing and hunting and not online? LOL  Hope everyone is having a safe deer season been hearing a few injuries and I hope everyone can take the time to unload guns and make sure they are on safety while out walking around.

I took a first time deer hunter out over the weekend and he was able to shoot his first deer which was a huge mature doe.  I could tell he was excited because the two person ladder stand which is connected to a 90 year old oak tree was shaking like a leaf.  We are 3/5 tags filled in our hunting party. Doe didn't have a fawn but was running with a few other big does and had a dark black belly which I thought was unique.  A 1.5 year old 6 point was scrawny and still had bleech white legs was taking saturday about 2.5 hours before dark out running around.  Sunday morning a neighbor spooked up my buck and he was a 3.5 year old 4x4 with junk on both G2's to make him a 9 point.

Not a ton of hunting where I'm hunting at and even less shooting.  Opening weekend we only heard two sets of two shots, otherwise all single shots ringing out in the area.  Still hoping for cold weather for ice fishing but I'm starting to get nervous about my December 17th fishing trip up to Red Lake, MN.