Leech Lake Fishing

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am back, sorry I’ve been away for a while but we had a few things happening to our lives lately, including a beautiful baby daughter last monday.

Fishing on leech has been fair to good so far this fall. The big lake hasen’t been producing large numbers of fish, but the fish being caught are in the 18-25″ range. Most of the fish are coming off the wind driven points using jig and minnow. As the water continues to cool look for the fish to move shallower on these points.

Walker bay has been producing some good numbers of fish with a smaller size average than those of the big lake. Look at fishing the many humps located in Walker Bay, as well as steep breaklines. Jig/minnow presentaions have been working well as well as live bait rigging with large chubs.

Perch fishing continues to be productive, but be prepared to do some sorting. We have a huge population of younger perch that are trying to grow to jumbo’s and are eager to take your jig and minnow.

I also had a chance to fish some of the smaller lakes a couple weekends ago with my brother (pflugy). We found numerous fish in the 60-70′ depths just off a major point as well as numbers of fish in the 45′ range on transitions from hard to soft bottom.

Hopefully the snow will let up (4+” since last night and counting) so we can get out and get in some more fall fishing.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter!! Welcome back to the board. I was wondering what had happened to you. I will be doing a lot more fishing on leech now as a buddy and I went in together and bought a place on the lake in Whipholt – right down from Huddles resort. Hopefully we will be able to hook up and meet some time.

Thank you for the congrats,
let me know when you are coming up next and we will have to meet, have you been up here fishing this fall?

I’ve been fishing, but the catching has been slow. We were concentrating on muskies for the most part – Had a few follows and 1 hookup, but none in the boat. Caught a few nice walleyes off of bear island a couple of weeks ago. Last weekend, a few perch only. I will not be up this weekend, but probably will be up the next. If the weather looks decent, I might take a trip to Mille Lacs for the night bite on Saturday the 8th.

Congrats, Dan. Mama says so too. I’ll bet your daughter will catch a walleye that weighs the same as her age some day. Also welcome back. I’ve been busy chasing pheasants lately (18 so far) and deer hunting will take up the next few weeks so I won’t get up there with the 3 Fat Germans until hard water. I’ll check with you then.