Fish on gull lake

[child23]

Is anyone catching anything? What depth and what color lures? Is there any night bite? I am staying on gull lake and would like to know where to catch fish. Me and my roomate have been out the past four nights and have only caught one perch. Any help would be apprectiated.

[Birch Haven]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but as you might read in another post here, my computer crashed and took some fixin'. Where have you been fishing? I have seen a couple of houses out by the Gull Lake campground area. A couple of friends of ours have setup on the "reef" just southwest of our point here but I haven't heard much good news yet. Last year a lot of folks worked that area but only did marginally well at first ice then it dried up. The most consistant spot I know of is off the point of bullrushes wwhich run west off of our point here. Off the end is a deep hole of about 20-30 feet. That held good for all most of last winter. Out in front of our place is also a good consistant area. We have a couple of long spring lines which move fresh water around out here and I set up right between them at about 15 feet deep. Also, the north shoreline is suppose to be pretty good, however, I haven't worked that area my self. Let me know just where you have been working and what depth, etc. and maybe we can start from there and get you on some fish.

[child23]

We are fishing in the southern most bay out from Eagle Ridge Resort and we have been moving out and north. Were gonna punch a few holes tonight and see if we can catch anything.

[Birch Haven]

Okay, you might want to just hook around the point east of there and setup a ways out in the opening between the bullrush lines. By that I mean the rushes off the east point and the rushes that run that direction from the opposite point which is my shoreline. I have a map on my website's "Lake" page which shows you a deep hole there, although, the map shows it as 39', it's now only about 29' at its' deepest. If you stay closer to your point you should be running at about 18'-20' and do well.

Let me know how you fare and good luck.

[child23]

thanks for the help. I was also wondering is there any type of a night bite or are we just wasting our time sitting on the lake after dark.

[Birch Haven]

Well, you know all the cliches about fishing..eh? Never a waste of time. Last year we had the best luck from 5:30am-8:00am, 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-7:30pm, 9:30pm-midnight and 2:00am-4:00am. The best cosistant times were the morning hours and that 9:30-midnight spot. You know that last wind storm shook things up a bit and it usually takes a couple of days to settle down. The next couple of days should be primo. I think I can see your shack out there and I would still suggest moving just a little more around the point from where you are...but you are close. Can you see the shack over here just of my shore? They've been getting into some nice walleyes right there at about 15' of water.

Personally I have to do some repair work on my tractor today and hope to get my portable out in the next day or two. I'll keep in touch.

[child23]

any luck over the past weekend? Me and my roomate are heading home early so not sure if were getting much fishing in this week. Hopefully when we get back there plenty of ice. The weather sounds good for it.

[Birch Haven]

This weekend we set up a couple of shacks along the bullrushes here off of my point. Both houses caught limits of Northerns, a couple of walleyes and a couple of eelpouts. Most of the action was running in the early afternoon but we had that wind in the evenings and I think that slowed down that time slot.

We'll probably sit it out for a couple of days and let this front move through. It looks as though we'll have enough ice to drive out on by the weekend, but, personally, I'm going to be very cautious as to how far out and where we drive. As we did some thickness checks we found variances of a few inches as we went further out from the shorelines. Gull does have some springs in it and can be deceiving. I have noticed a few folks setting up portables and light perms out in the "hole" I mentioned to you but haven't heard how they are doing yet.

Merry Christmas to all!!

[child23]

We went out for like half an hour last night to the general area of the hole and didn't catch anything? Probably would have helped if we would have pulled the house out there but it was a really nice night. We found that there was about 11 or 12 inches of ice.