Rainy Lake Smallies

I’m anxiously awaiting my 1st trip to Rainy lake in August, and am wondering about the smallmouth fishing. I’ve always heard that Rainy has great smallies, but rarely do I see a post about them. Are they difficult to find in mid-summer??Is it better to concentrate on the walleyes?? Of course in a perfect world I’d catch a boatload of both…right??

Hi Trap,

I rarely get smallmouth trips in July and August. Most of the time the better fish will locate on some of the first rockpiles off shore this time of year. 99% of my trips from mid-June until the End of October focus on Walleyes. With that being said there are some tanks Smallies to be had. Here are a couple inching over the 20 mark a customer and I landed on back to back casts earlier this year.

Thanks Chris…maybe you can point out a few spots when we get together in August.