Lots of forage in the lake, thankfully, as that is the infrastructureВ that supports lots of fish.ДЄnglers fishing deep reefs and edges of reefs are still having success with a jig and minnow or plastic. Walleyes are normally active in these areas. Hammered gold and pink spinners have been good.ДЄnglers fishing rocks are reporting crayfish in the bellies of walleyes. Pulling spinners with a piece of crawler during a hatch is a proven technique. Lots of fish over mud feeding on mayfly nymphs. side and Ontario side of the lake with good success.ДЄ mayfly hatch this week. Fishing continues to be very good up at the Angle. Smallmouth bass around rocks and bridges. Some bigВ pike beingВ caught in bays and feederВ rivers. Limit is one sturgeon per calendar year per person, 45' - 50' inclusive or over 75'.

Otherwise, youВ can catch and release them with a MN Fishing License. Purchase a $5 sturgeon tag if you are planning on harvesting one. The sturgeon 'keep' season opened July 1st and goes through September 30. A good number of shiners in the river as well, which usually means lots of fish. Anglers fishing the river are figuring out where fish are living and keying in on current breaks and bays as a rule.ДЄ nice mixed bag in the river right now includes walleyes, saugers, smallmouth bass, and pike. The river is stillВ high and has a lot of current. In addition to walleyes and saugers, jumbo perch pike, smallmouth bass and even an occasionalВ muskie, crappie or sturgeon are being caught. The key, getting lures to where the fish are. Shiny gold, firetiger and purple are a few goto colors. Trolling crankbaits and covering water continues to be effective. Some days they are on top, other days on the edge or just off the edge over mud. Walleyes almost always seem to be using the scattered reefs in the lake. When you find fish congregated, that can be a good time to anchorВ up and jig them with a frozen shiner. Pulling spinners with a crawler or minnow has been the goto method. Other anglers are finding walleyes in deeper water, 25 - 31 feet over mud. They are open for business, fishing has been great and they are taking good care of visitors. Resorts / lodging facilities are doing a nice job adapting to high water conditions. In 12 fOW you could sight fish and see your jig, the weeds, and the fish all the way down. The Ice was at least 2 feet thick, probably more. Overall the fishing wasn't too good, but It was fun and hopefully I learned some useful information. Its cool though with a camera when you can spin it and on one side you are looking uphill and on the other side you can't see the floor. I didn't find any fish on my camera and I think it just dropped of to fast into too deep of water. nothing to keep, and They were not very aggressive. The kids didn't do to well on the sunnies though.

2 of them came right up to the camera and were staring right into the lense just inches away. I made a 1/4 turn with the camera and counted 7 withing six feet (guess) of the camera. Same weeds, but no sunnies, Just LGMouth Bass. They were pretty space out and not moving very much. Out in 12 feet the bottom was covered with about 1 foot high weeds that look like mini weeping willow trees, (sort of, that my best description).ДЄnyway, I could see pumkinseed sunnies all over, not huge numbers, but 10-15 as I spun the camera. I began dropping my Aquaview down to check it out as this is a very clear lake. Now that they were set up I decided to play around. So I drilled a few holes and set up the eskimo QF 3, the heater, and got the kids lines in the water. 12 ft -caught a pumkinseed and since I was with the kids I thought deeper water might be a little better for numbers.

7 ft - caught a decent bluegill, but it got off 1 inch out of the water, so I didn't get a measurement.ДҐ.

There is a little 15 foot inside bend that comes in.ДЎ. I went on the left west side of the Land point where the landing is.

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