Fishing Trip

  • Jeremy Voll
    Posts: 2
    May 21, 2021 at 12:03 pm #2038144

    Looking to take a fishing trip for walleye in June or July, any recommendations for lakes in the Midwest or resorts to stay at?

    BigWerm
    SW Metro
    Posts: 11644
    May 21, 2021 at 1:21 pm #2038157

    Where you coming from and how long do you want to drive? We have about 5,000 good options in MN.

    slough
    Posts: 581
    May 21, 2021 at 2:24 pm #2038170
    BigWerm wrote:

    Where you coming from and how long do you want to drive? We have about 5 good options in MN.

    Fixed your post jester

    BigWerm
    SW Metro
    Posts: 11644
    May 21, 2021 at 2:30 pm #2038172
    slough wrote:

    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
    Where you coming from and how long do you want to drive? We have about 5 good options in MN.

    Fixed your post jester

    Ha! Basically all the biggest lakes are very good walleye fisheries, (LOW, Red, Leech, Winnie, ML, Vermillion, Pepin, Rainy, Kab, Crane, Cass, Ottertail, Big Stone, Namakan) and then there’s a ton of good walleye lakes in the popular cabin country areas like Alex, Detroit Lakes, Park Rapids, Walker, Grand Rapids etc…if you only have 5 lakes you can catch walleye on, you need to watch more IDO to figure out how! whistling rotflol

    John Rasmussen
    Blaine
    Posts: 6358
    May 21, 2021 at 3:19 pm #2038177

    Welcome to IDO. Like Werm said we have to many options to just say go here. Give us more to go on and most of us would be happy to help. You do not have to go to a destination lake to catch walleye, they live in lots of our smaller lakes too.

    tim hurley
    Posts: 5831
    May 21, 2021 at 3:37 pm #2038179

    Have a friend going to Shetek, wish I could go, huge fertile bowl shaped reservoir, troll that thing with shad raps or flickers and you are in. Do not think i would go there in July though. Lakes like Kab look like Canadian lakes but they have half the fish and are crazy complicated, many of the lakes mentioned I would want to get a good guide for day 1 and thats assuming you asking questions and are paying attention! So consider lakes to the south alot of fertile bodies full of walters get ignored.

    igotone
    Posts: 1746
    May 21, 2021 at 4:33 pm #2038185

    Jeremy very Important PM sent
    Please don’t post it here….

    Jeremy Voll
    Posts: 2
    May 21, 2021 at 4:38 pm #2038186

    Thanks for all of the info so far, I’m coming from northern WI, I have no problem traveling 10-12 hours.

    big_g
    Isle, MN
    Posts: 22456
    May 21, 2021 at 7:26 pm #2038202

    Midwest Mn I would suggest Green Lake in Spicer. Great summertime town too !

    joe-winter
    St. Peter, MN
    Posts: 1281
    May 22, 2021 at 9:35 am #2038236

    Beckers Resort on Lake Winnibigoshish.

    Dan
    Southeast MN
    Posts: 3786
    May 22, 2021 at 11:40 am #2038244
    John Rasmussen wrote:

    You do not have to go to a destination lake to catch walleye, they live in lots of our smaller lakes too.

    I don’t have anything against the “Great 8” or the main go-to huge lakes in MN (I enjoy being on them too) but the past few years our up north trips have been on much smaller, lesser-known lakes. One thing I like to do is go to Google maps and just move around, find a lake in an area I might like and then start looking at resorts on that lake. I’m 98% there to fish but I also want to feel up north too, so typically I’m looking somewhere in or near the Chippewa National Forest or the Arrowhead region and trying to find a lake in those areas that’ll work.

    trophy19
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 1206
    May 23, 2021 at 10:17 am #2038372

    Jeremy,

    Only 7+ hours from Green Bay to North or South Dakota/Minnesota border. You mentioned driving 10-12 hours; opens up options for some good fishing in SD/ND as well..

    Pete

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