Sabaskong Bay – Nestor Falls Area

thinking about fishing in the nestor falls area of LOTW this year in mid March instead of the Baudette area. Curious if anyone has ever ice fished this area?

Heard their can be a nice crappie, perch, and walleye bite. Any info on this would be nice

but I would like to know about lake travel…

plow roads? do I need a wheeler or is a truck good enough?

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks.

i fished there last year with my grandpa. caught lots of lakers. this year we are going to go around the same area for some crappie fishing in late march

I’ve been to Muskie Bay on Crow Lake several times. We’d fish lakers one day on Crow, crappies the next on LOW – Sometimes we’d split the day and do both.

Right in Nestor Falls, there is usually a road plowed out to cyclone point and the crappie fishing can be quite good at times.

The nice thing about Muskie Bay is they have a private access on LOW you can drive to. It is on the east end of Stevens Bay. Some years (We always went in March) were able to drive our trucks, most years you needed a sled. If there is a good February warm up, truck travel might be a good option again.

The crappies were sometimes not far off the landing. The trip out to Hay Island was usually worth the drive too.

We would catch a few walleyes out around Hay in Skabaskong bay, but we never really set the world on fire. Most of the walleyes and perch came from other spots, but still in sight of Hay.

We ventured farther west from Hay one trip and found some pretty decent walleye fishing along islands that had a bunch of baseball size rocks on the shore.

Granted I’ve only fished this area once (mid-March), like Gissert said, we found crappies and some eyes. There was a plowed road in areas, but that particular year there was a big melt before a major cold front when we were there. Trucks were driving all over with the lack of snow. We had ATVs and could go anywhere. Weather will dictate travel for sure.