Rainy River Spring 2022

Headed up Friday – Monday, hoping the cooler temps keep the forks as is. Always a great trip.

I have to go to Tennessee for work. Should be back Thursday. Heading up Friday till Sunday night.
Hopefully the forks don’t let loose.

empty_stringer wrote:

Headed up Friday – Monday, hoping the cooler temps keep the forks as is. Always a great trip.

There isn’t any cooler weather forecasted. Every day above freezing with rain. Then Thursday Friday night below freezing and day times in the 40s all week. At least that’s what my weather says in baudette

So anyone been up yet?

The Dutchman just reported that Frontier is open for business.

Really excited to get up there as a first timer, yet nervous as well. Nervous the forks will break right before we come, or I won’t be able to get my son on fish. Probably over thinking it.

If the forks break, will the sturgeon still bite?

PS- I’d love to hear any updates from the guys that head up before me (4/11).

walleyevision wrote:

If the forks break, will the sturgeon still bite?

As you can probably tell already things change quickly on the Rainy, and impossible to say what next week will bring. Sturgeon will bite if they can find your bait, but if the forks break there’s usually a ton of junk in the water too, which makes fishing them difficult for a few reasons. If the forks mess it up, you can either try and find clean water up or down stream, try and get on the ice elsewhere on LOW, or pack it up and head home. However, the forks don’t always bust loose and kill fishing, sometimes they melt slow and don’t really have a big impact, rarely but it does happen.

If the forks break look for cleaner water towards the lake and fish sturgeon. Happened to us a few years ago and was a blast

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Walleye still eat when the forks break you just have to clear your line of debris. Some times it’s still OK and other times it’s awful. Rainy is a different beast. Plan to get frustrated as much as anything. If you fish rivers normally then it’s very similar, fishing current and seams. Some days it’s good other days not so much. That’s why we always give our selves a week up there.
The struggle can pay off huge

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My phone weather apps are all crazy. 1 calling for 3-6 and other says 4-8. Was out today it was nice. Watch the logs and junk floating down the river an ice chunks. 1 guy going to fast or not paying attention and smacked 1 pretty bad had to run his kicker in to dock. Hope this crap misses us

On my way home from 3 days at Rainy.Lots of male fish in the river right now. There hasn’t been a big push of females yet. Water temp was 37 when we left and open water was at the Pinewood Church Hole. Water clarity was close to 3′. Good luck to everyone that’s heading up

Well I’ll be fishing tomorrow, hope the fish want my Bait. This is one of my Favorite trips of the year. And the only one I go one actually expecting a big trophy.
Talking with a old buddy Jason groll, it sounds like the fish are being very cooperative

Bearcat89 wrote:

Well I’ll be fishing tomorrow, hope the fish want my Bait. This is one of my Favorite trips of the year. And the only one I go one actually expecting a big trophy.
Talking with a old buddy Jason groll, it sounds like the fish are being very cooperative

Best of luck to you!

Wet heavy snow coming down now. Some was melting but not all. At least an inch already and still snowing. I put the boat back in shed and will wait it out. You guy’s coming up drive careful and best of luck to you

Yep. Watching the weather the next few days. Hope it mostly stays snow. Rain is just going to push those forks closer to popping open. Then more rain snow next week.

Mike W wrote:

Yep. Watching the weather the next few days. Hope it mostly stays snow. Rain is just going to push those forks closer to popping open. Then more rain snow next week.

. So far mostly snow

Anyone pass by the Forks today?

not yet. about 4hrs out.

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The Royal Dutchman’s FB page says they are holding tight

Vidas is open but have to keep pushing chunks of ice away from landing that come floating down

Hey grizzly, could you summarize the precip that has fallen? is it pretty much all wet snow? How much new snow is on the ground?

How are river levels/flow/color?

precip so far is wet. Been driving through it for hours. River at big fork is still solid but not sure for how long. Some of the ditches are very full.

Mike W wrote:

not yet. about 4hrs out.

Mike are you staying at birchdale again ? If so I’ll see you in the area.

little fork still solid.

dutchman

Wind looks nasty tomorrow. Actually tomorrow and Friday

Uncle Rico wrote:

Hey grizzly, could you summarize the precip that has fallen? is it pretty much all wet snow? How much new snow is on the ground?

been switching from rain and snow all day. About a inch of new snow most has melted

Bearcat89 wrote:

Wind looks nasty tomorrow. Actually tomorrow and Friday

. Yep crazy wind for Thursday night and Friday. And my weather app shows 17 on Saturday morning

Anyone around vidas late in the day? Just wondering if you still had to push big chunks of ice out to use the ramp