bowstring report

FISHED BOWSTRING Friday 8-23-13. rid the lake of one walleye a chunk of aluminum and 3 different sets of fishing line. still better then workin!!!!!!!!!!!

Had a great week fishing out of Bowstring Shores Resort last week. Darv and Marjean are the best. Cabin was great and the service we recieved was second to none. Hammered perch every day. Tried for crappies but never got any. Had the place pretty much to ourselves most of the week. Let us fish whatever shack we wanted. Darv made sure they were ready to go way before we were out on the ice.

Marcum,
Not looking for specific spots, but what type of areas did you find the perch in? Bowstring can be a fun lake to fish. PM me if you would rather.

Slab, they had the shacks sitting on 15 to 17′ of water. They had 3 set fairly close. 2 of the 3 were good, the 3rd one produced only small ones so we used the other 2. All I know is it was around a mile up the shoreline. Went right from landing at the resort. Only second time I have been there and never got a chance to check lake map on my gps.

Thanks for the report.

old post………but its a bowstring report of sorts.

DNR reports zebra mussels are now found in bowstring. actually surpprised it took this long since its connected to sand lake which has had them in for quiet a while already!!!!!

Also surprised it took this long. Be interesting to see if stays clear during the summer or if it greens up.

It’s bog stained water so not sure if it will clear up much???

Just got back from bowstring and was searching google for this topic. The lake was the clearest I’ve ever seen it. I didnt think the zebra muscles would affect the stained water, but its really clear. Perhaps there is something else besides the zebras causing the change? Is the bog that flows in the lake really dry?

Rezac55 wrote:

Just got back from bowstring and was searching google for this topic. The lake was the clearest I’ve ever seen it. I didnt think the zebra muscles would affect the stained water, but its really clear. Perhaps there is something else besides the zebras causing the change? Is the bog that flows in the lake really dry?

alot of zebra mussels will do that. When I was up 2 weeks ago in the area the water levels where as high as I’ve seen it in a while, so I doubt it the bog was dry.

Bowstring Is connected to Sand lake via a river. Sand had zeebs long before bowstring did. Was just a matter of time. I fish sand alot early to help the DNR with the small pike. it was quite amazing what 2 years of zeebs did to water clarity on sand. I also noticed after a few years the zeeb population on sand dropped dramatically.

the wind blew whats left of the ice up against Geigers shoreline overnight. williams narrows appears to be ice free, and there isnt much ice left on sand lake from the looks of lakewood lodges cam!!!!!!

glenn57 wrote:

the wind blew whats left of the ice up against Geigers shoreline overnight. williams narrows appears to be ice free, and there isnt much ice left on sand lake from the looks of lakewood lodges cam!!!!!!

Thanks for the report Glenn. We were planning it for opener, but had to delay the trip to Memorial weekend instead.

Yea the boats will be piled up like cordwood opener anyway.

looks like the ice finally went away in front of Geigers…….

So it’s kinda quiet in here. We fished Bowstring this past weekend. Got there Friday afternoon and went home Monday morning. Friday we didn’t have a lot of time, we tried to find some walleye’s for a bit with no luck. We headed down to our crappie spot and this is the first year we struggled to get into them only caught a few. Saturday the wind was a handle we fished for a while then gave it up. Had a nice visit with Glenn57 and Erik Swenson a couple of great guys. Erik even stayed for dinner and drinks and was kind enough to share a location to try the next day. Well I will give him a lot of credit, I think the weather had something to do with it. Finally we were catching walleye nothing hot and heavy, but we ended up catching 6 eyes all good eater size biggest was 18″. Others did better and some did worse. Best depth was 13-15 for us. We did catch one on top of a hump other wise still relating to shallow water break line stuff. The best spot for us without giving up to much was away from shore but shallow up to a hard break line so they were relating to the outside of a developing weed line. Lots of pike to release and dang they stink in that lake. Best tactic for us was lindy rigging a plain hook with one bead (red in my case) 3ft or so leader. Leeches were the ticket. I usually don’t bash bait shops and I used to feel good stopping there but Prince’s bent us over for shiners, $20 a dozen. I should have called ahead, we stopped at Freds to grab worms we forgot and they had them for $9.00.

Hadn’t seen a report earlier, thought you didn’t get out of Inger! by the way it’s been raining pretty steady today.

glenn57 wrote:

Hadn’t seen a report earlier, thought you didn’t get out of Inger

Naw I left your girls alone Glenn. Was a nice visit with you guys, wish your power wasn’t out and you could have stayed longer. Erik stayed quite a while and we had fun drinking and talking smart. Thanks again for the smoked fish. Still waiting to open it up and enjoy.

Oh and I forgot to mention we forgot the net on Monday morning, figured that out after running the most the way down the lake, so my buddy ended up had landing a nice one for me, that was a bit fun. He got it though, he lost one after I tried to grab one for him, it was smaller so he decided to just swing it and it came off.

Awesome trip! Except for forgetting the net lol. Mission accomplished on fish and time with buddies.

Awesome! Always good times at Bowstring!

Glad you had some success guys. Hope to get myself out there this weekend/next week. Let me know next time you’re coming up.

Bring better beer next time.

glenn57 wrote:

Bring better beer next time

Glad I had your back with the Goldens Glenn. Erik I unlike Glenn I enjoyed the Grain Belts. I forget how good they are for a change every once in a while.

Better beer = anything not out of Saint Louis.

Maybe you’ll like the Premium Lights better next time Glenn!