Big Elbow Lake

[RunnerX]

Has anyone had the opportunity to fish Big Elbow this season? I am coming up there this weekend to stay at the Jolly Fisherman and wanted to know how the fishing was going.

[WIF]

I just spent a week with the family at the same resort you are going to. Although I love to fish for walleyes, I kind of figured it would be slow going for them, so we concentrated on largemouth bass and panfish. Wow did we have fun! We caught and released many nice bass up to 20 inches (many 15 to 17 inchers), and we were able to get into some nice bunches of honest hand sized sunnies. Good eating! Unfortunately, the week ended too soon, as we found some nice crappied during our last evening, would have loved to found them sooner.

Bass were caught in basic patterns - weedlines near deeper water (30 to 35 feet) with plastic worms. Sunfish were all over, but our best luck for bigger fish came on the south end and during the evening using flu flu jigs and wax worms.

The resort owner admitted that walleye fishing can be tough in July. There were millions (no exxageration) of minnows swimming in the shallows.

Good luck, we had a great time.

[RunnerX]

Thank You for the informtion.
I usually fish for Walleye and find that it is a hard to catch them in July. I think it has more to do with my lack of experience fishing for Walleye.

[zelek]

Runner--

Try Nelson Point with a plain hook and a crawler with any kind of a south wind. When it's really blowing you can almost always catch walleyes in here. Keep sliding down to the south--you'll find them.

Elbow also has a legitimate night bite. It's been awhile, but that big sunken island by the point I'm talking about has kicked out some nice walleyes after midnight.

So has the one that comes up to about 8 feet closer to the resort. You might want try anchoring here and tossing out a lighted slip bobber with a leech.

Now that I think about it, I know a guy who says he used to catch them after dark right along the shoreline by the Jolly Fisherman as well.

Good luck!!

[RunnerX]

Zelek, Thanks for the inside information. I have fished Big Elbow for a number of years, but it has been the past 5 years that I have been to the other end.

Take Care