Winni

Caught a 29″ on the 1st drift Thurs. last week. 1st ‘eye to the boat. Havn’t figured out how to attach a photo to it. What a gorgous weekend, The only problem was lack of wind! That and the fish bugs. Most of our fish were in the 22″-24″ range with a couple of 28’s” thrown in. Leeches and ceawlers on rigs did the best for us. We only brought home 15 fish for 5 guy’s and 4 day’s. Casted Power Minnows into the shallows by the Mississippi and caught about 100 walleye in the 12″ range. Next year will be awesome if those fish hang around.

Great report, sounds like you had a good trip on Winnie. The bite continues to stay HOT on Winnie at least for numbers. Its simple amazing at the numbers of fish we are catching. Right now it seems that you can put your boat anywhere as long as your in 5 feet to 22 feet of water and you will be catching fish. Sorry I haven’t put much up lately, but as you can see its another early morning, and when things slow down a bite I will try to post more often. This is the first chance I have had to look at the site in ten days. If your headed to Winie anytime soon, the North shore from the rock pile west has been good, along with the birches and tamarack point.
There is a huge class of 9-12 inch fish, in most cases if you land on a school of these guys you will likely burn up your bait looking for some eaters, move just a short distance from this school and you will likely run into some eaters or bigger fish. The fish are really relating to the new weeds. If you have an idea of where some weeds are, fish them, they are holding the best numbers. The jigs and minnows are the best producers yet, with the water warming drastically this next two weeks is going to be wide open…Fish hard and Often

Sean,
With this warm weather coming next week what do you think the fish are going to do?
The reason I ask is because I am making a trip up there on June 12th thru the 15th.
Thanks

We are going to see one of two things here over the next week to ten days. The first one is what we are hoping and thats is the shallow water bite, look for the numbers in shallow chasing shiners, and the second is the shiners finish spawning and head out to deeper water and the eye will be right behind them. I will be on Winnie again starting tomorrow and will try to keep you upto date. Hope this helps, but I think some things are going to change between now and then…hope for the shallow water bite.

Sean, keep us posted on Winnie. I’d like to get up there soon for a weekend. A shallow bite is awesome to work. I just experienced it up on Rainy last weekend. What fun! Thanks in advance!

Mark

Pretty hot bite on Tamarack point the last few days, expect it to hang in there. One main concern. the shiners are done spawning so what we were hoping for in the shallow water bite, may not happen if those shiners head for deep water right away. We saw the first hatch of mayflies, yep the fishing has been a bit more difficult as most of the bigger fish are full of those mayflies. It will be interesting this week to see what happens on Winnie. MY guess is we will be deep by this weekend…hope not though.