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Heres the scoop, fished Sat. and Sun. With 3 guys we caught 102 walleyes, 4 sturgeon, 3 pike, 1 smallmonth, 1 ellpout and one sucker. Two biggest walleyes were 8.8 pds and 7 pds. Biggest sturgeon was 57 inchs weighing 42 pds on the scale. Least amount of boat traffic I've ever seen on a weekend, was really nice.

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We fished Sat & Sun. Birchdale landing is awesome.. Boy they did a great job on fixing the road and ramps..

Sat was a tough fish.. The winds did not help much and it was darn cold.. Only boated a few eyes & One Sturgeon 43" We were playing around in the rapids and trying new spots.. We never fished the Rainy before.

Sun we boated many more eyes, several in the 24-25", took home limits of good eaters.. I boated my first Sturgeon, 49-50" it was around 40#. Over the weekend we boated around 40 fish.

Found our best fishing west of Birchdale.. Either by the church and just east a few miles from there..Best for us was gold jigs and fatheads, and foam walkers with spinners tiped with fatheads.

The weather was a real bugger.. Monday we just did not even try so we headed home.. Something about 20mph winds, snow and 27* does not make good fishing or frost bite fingers and frozen eyeballs..

Over all it was a real blast..Can't wait to go back.

Sandee, sorry we did not stop in.. we were gonna try every time we went by but it was either 5:00 am or late at night. I bet you cant wait for your landing to open up... it wont be long, we drove almost all the way to your area.. getting pretty congetsed with ice bergs so we went back..

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Wiskers Guiding Service
Red River, Red Lake River & Minnesota River,for Channel Cats, Flatheads & Walleyes
Crookston, MN
[email protected]

218-280-0442

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We went out of Frontier, watch the landing shes washed out you need to go off of the side. Pink and pearl were our best colors in 3/8 and 1/2 oz. We mostly vertical jigged down the center till we would hit a school and then stay on them till they stopped. They were really bunched up, had to look for them. Your right it was cold and windy on Sat. I had a 49" sturgeon last year that weighed 22pds this one was 8" longer and weighed 20 pds more.

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Forgot a couple of things. We used fathead chubs. Plastics and rattles worked better on Sun. I think because the river was a little darker.

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Hey outdoor ran.
Great report - good for you.
Where, by chance, where you? I'm going up later in the week, and I do know that the fish will move a lot by then, but was just curious what part of the river you hit.
My thanks
E

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Outdoor......... what kind of boat were you in.. Maybe I seen you???/ Did you see the River Pro?? that was me..

Can't wait to get back up there..

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Wiskers Guiding Service
Red River, Red Lake River & Minnesota River,for Channel Cats, Flatheads & Walleyes
Crookston, MN
[email protected]

218-280-0442

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Whiskers, was your boat gray with yellow writing. If so I was fishing right next to you a couple times. I brought my duck hunting boat and left the 17fter at home. Wish I would of brought it has sooon as I seen the landing. I was in a little 14ft gray primer color boat with 3 camo guys in it. When are you going back up. I don't think I'll get back up this year, bummer. If you do good luck.

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eyefan, I like to use 6lb maxium line on one pole and 4/10 fireline on the other for walleyes. You can land sturgeon on these lines it just takes a while, lots of fun. Sometimes I'll throw out a baitcaster with crawlers on 12pd maxium line while I eat lunch. I seen a couple boats last weekend fishing just baitcasters for them.

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What are people typically using for line fishing for the walleyes. Are most of the sturgeon caught while walleye fishing?

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