Going up for a long weekend. Haven’t been since June. Will give report on perch, walleyes and maybe a few pike. Does anybody think the walleyes will be up shallow on the rocks yet? 2 years ago the first week of Oct we caught nice fish in 3-5 fow w/ slip bobbers and fatheads on the rocks in front of Raven Pt and out from the Big Rock and Mallard PT. Hope we find ’em!
By the way, I’ve been “computerless” for 3 yrs and this is my first visit back. What the heck are “fish bucks?” 
Welcome back and welcome to IDA Chris 
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Let us know how you do on Winnie! 
Not sure about Winni, but they were shallow on Leech last weekend. If you need bait, I recommend Nodak Lodge in Bena…we got four scoops and trust me they don’t count em out! I talked to the guy dipping bait and he said the fishing had been “Alright”, noting that there was a lack of people fishing due to recent high winds. Good Luck on your trip!
Welcome back Chris. We have a cabin up by Winni on a small Lake by Bowstring. My dad as of last week has been getting the eyes in 3-5 FOW under a slip bobber in the rocks and outside the weedlines. I will be up this weekend with the kids to give it a try before we leave next week for Lake Tobin in Saskatewan. Good luck on Winnie.
John
We returned Saturday the 29th from a week on Winnie from Sat. the 21st through Friday the 28th. The eye fishing started out slowly but picked up steam as the week went on – northern guys were knocking them out from the start so we ate fish and fried taters 3-4 nights.
I educated the boys on the importance of having a variety of baits in the boat because some of the days the fish really showed a preference for leeches, crawlers or minnows – my uncle won’t use anything but leeches and he had a few days where he didn’t catch much. I had brought up the crawlers and had bought rainbows at Freds and it made a world of difference – I also educated them on the importance of 1 foot contour GPS – there were some very specific spots where we caught the vast majority of our fish this trip. And the new custom Lindy rod I built just before the trip worked – once I had a chance to catch a few fish on it to figure it out I did quite well with it. In fact our best day we caught 24 eyes from my boat and a dozen nice perch – of course with the slot limit up there most of them had to go back – didn’t catch anything bigger than 20.5 inches myself – but lotsa 18-20’s. Fun to catch for sure – the future looks bright for trophies with that year class in there in 4-5 years.
I also figured out how to jig fish up there and caught lots of keeper eyes the last several days there… we came home with our limits of Northerns and eyes for each of us. We had lots of rain so the raingear was put to the test… but all in all another great trip to Winninbigosh.
By the end of the week many Winnie eyes were being caught in Cutfoot – easy to tell because they lack the tannic gold color of the native Cutfoot eyes. Bobs Bar was good to us as well as a spot we call Eagles nest. We caught most of ours up in 9-10 feet of water so I wouldn’t be surprised if the fish are up more shallow than that as well. Good luck if you head up,
Chuckles
Sounds like a great week! We were up the past weekend and found similar success, definetly a great fishery with a bright future.
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