Rainy River Report

  • bigshoots30
    Sartell, MN
    Posts: 317
    October 23, 2007 at 2:53 am #1256450

    Well, I had the opportunity to spend this past weekend with some buddies of mine up on the Rainy River. We had seven guys and three boats for the trip. A few IDA members, Bobberal,Hawglbr and Taztyke, were part of the group with me. We headed up on Thursday afternoon and drove in pouring rain the whole trip. We weren’t looking forward to a day of rain on Friday, but that is what we got to wake up to and fish in all day. The fishing was pretty good for the most part. The walleyes kept us going without any long voids. We were on the water around 9:30 (late due to the rain) and we were done with our 28 eyes by 2:30pm. Friday didn’t produce any big fish other than a few large sturgeons, biggest being around 50″, but it was a blast anyway. The largest eye Friday was at 19-1/4″ and all the eyes on Friday were right at the 17″-19″ mark – perfect eaters!

    We returned to the cabin and we were frying fish and having a few at 5:30 and full of fish at around 6:30. Life couldn’t have been any better!

    Saturday we woke early to clear skies and cooler temps. We were on the water around 7:30 and after the rain on Thursday and Friday the current was a flowin’!! We had a tougher time with the eyes on Saturday, mainly due to the grass and leaves in the water that found our jigs all day. We managed to finish what we needed to fill up our limits early and fish a few hours for some piggies, but none were had. We were back to the cabin around 6:30 after a quick celebration stop at the Muni in Baudette!

    The biggest walleye came in on my line on Saturday and it was a very healthy 25″ piggy! All of the walleyes were very healthy and heavy. Wish I could be back there this weekend but the new wife has other plans for me!

    I hope anyone heading up to Rainy has the luck we had, the water temps are only getting better! Good luck

    zachary fries
    Central Nebraska
    Posts: 1435
    October 23, 2007 at 1:06 pm #618876

    That sounds like a lot of fun!!

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    October 23, 2007 at 1:53 pm #618889

    Thanks for the report. I was wondering if the big girls were going yet.

    bigshoots30
    Sartell, MN
    Posts: 317
    October 23, 2007 at 10:39 pm #619054

    I would say this weekend is going to be a very active one and I would venture to say the Piggy’s are going to start snappin’ those jigs pretty hard! Wish I was going, I’ll hit Mile Lacs on Thursday night to make up for it!

    Jack Naylor
    Apple Valley, MN
    Posts: 5668
    October 24, 2007 at 6:27 pm #619335

    Nice read and trip, Jim..
    Jack.

    TazTyke
    Central Minnesota
    Posts: 473
    October 24, 2007 at 11:35 pm #619418

    Quote:

    Thanks for the report. I was wondering if the big girls were going yet.

    At first I thought you were talking about some of the locals at the bars I agree with Walleye Warrior, this would be the weekend to be going coming up, although we caught lots of fish, I think this coming weekend would have put a trophy in one of the boats. It would give the water a chance to settle down and maybe less debris in the water would make a world of difference.

    Walley Warrior, I think a spring hawg hunt may be in order. A What do you think, are you up for that?

    bobberal
    St Cloud MN, Leech Lake
    Posts: 416
    October 25, 2007 at 6:30 pm #619618

    I ditto this coming weekend as Hog Feast Weekend

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