Heading up to big V for a week of searching for that 50″ plus fish to fill the camera’s with. Heard the “green bloom” has happened in the last week and hoping things are clear by this weekend. Anyone been up recently or heard of any patterns or lures producing any lunges? Thanks. 
I was up during the bloom and it was everyone and thick. Marty at VDL told me that his friend fished the big bay (largest part of the lake) over the weekend and saw 29 fish and caught 4. I on the other hand never really made it through Oak narrows from VDL except to Hoyt Island and never saw a fish except the one I caught. Lure choice should be bucktails or big plastics during the day and topwater stuff at night. Fish rocks in the mornings and if there is any wind into them, as well as defined weedlines during the day and definitely at night with topwater. Good luck.
Ah, Marty at the dam. I know Marty very well. We have a cabin in the northwest corner of Niles Bay and my uncle rents his cabin out through VDL. A couple guys a few weeks ago caught a 53″ about 500 yds away from the resort. We haven’t had good walleye fishing in that same area for a couple of years. We were just up there this weekend though and pounded the walleyes. They really have the feedbag on.
Nate
I just got back from Vermilion on the 15th was up there from the 9th – 15th. Fished the heck out of the lake and only came up with 3 walleyes < or = 16″. Caught a ton of northrens and perch, 2 large mouths, and two small mouths. No muskies. We never found the walleyes to be schooled together.
Can you offer any tips, depths, bait, time of day, and areas you pounded them in and on? This was my first time up there, so I got to know the lake.
We used leeches, crawlers, and minnows. We used floaters with 3’ – 6’ snells, plain hooks, jigs/w plastics. Everything, but the kitchen sink. The beer didn’t seem to help either, but it sure went down good though.
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