2014 Rainy River Conditons for Spring Fishing!

Great fish, and great report!

Nice fish Irishman. That’s a banner weekend!!

Very cool ice picture too.

Congrats on the record.

Wheelers Point ramp opened up today. Will be fishing this end of the river tomorrow!

-J.

Here are the latest updates. Sorry we have been crazy and were gone for a few days and I can’t update very well on my phone.

April 22nd, 2014:
Just got word about 3:30 PM that both the big fork and little fork are open…. There is not much debris coming past our house as of 3:45 PM. Grant checked the river just before dark and didn’t see any debris coming down the river. The water looked a little cloudy/dirty.

April 21st, 2014:
We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! We were able to spend time with Alyse’s family for the weekend. We did get word that the river is open past Wheelers Point it opened up quick in a few days. A group that was fishing today mentioned the river was a little dirty but not bad at all.

April 18th, 2014:
When we woke up this morning almost all the shore ice was gone and you were able to get to the docks with a boat.

April 16th, 2014:
Late afternoon the river open up in front of our house!! There is still shore ice and the dock isn’t quite open yet but it is open at least!

April 14th, 2014:
Today is the last day of Walleye Fishing until the opener in May! We would like to thank everyone for the kind words and having fun even if fishing was slow most of the days. Now it’s time to think about Sturgeon Fishing which is catch and release right now and the season is open April 24-May 7! We can now see open water from the front door! It is just starting to come around the bend.

With both of the forks open there wasn’t any debris coming down the river past our place today.

Talked to a few different groups today and sounds like the sturgeon are biting!! One group said they caught about 15 sturgeon for the last 2 1/2 days with the biggest one being 73 inches and right before that he landed a 59 inch one! Another group that fished most of today caught 8 total and had a blast! Can’t wait to get pictures of that 73 inch to share with everyone he figures it was well over a 100 lbs!

I got the photo of the 73″ not too long after it was caught! It’s a beast!