goggle leech lake web cam tower. The cam moves back and forth showing all of walker bay.

what a difference a day makes. It looks like the ice is pushed up to the north side. You would think if walker bay is open the main lake should be open. They should be calling ice out you would think today or tomorrow.

looking at the walker bay web cam is a downer. Ice still looks white.

That sounds like me alright. I have a LCX27. I got the last one and he said this was one of the new and improved ones. The one I replaced it with was sent from Lowrance for free when they felt bad about their faulty transducers. They don’t feel that way anymore.

I will check that but it looked good on first glance. thanks

Another great report. Although I have been waiting to hear about your Leech lake trip. I have been trying your technique up there with no suchsess. How did you do up there? thanks

Thanks for your help. I do have a trollers bible I cant remember what it is called. I gotta hope the crank is not on one of the pages that stuck together when it got wet. If you see a Yarcraft tiller with a 175 Suzi on back say . I will be on Leech that same weekend

I have never tried this technique. I am going to give it a shot on leech in August. I will have 3 adolescents in the boat so I know I don’t have much time to put them on the fish. So I will do alot of scouting then bring them out. As far as your leadcore, you put out a 50ft leader, 3 colors of 180lb then how much line of the braid. As far as the other lines on the boards, I think I read somewhere you put out about 100 ft to get to @23ft. Thanks for your help your posts are great.

I would say the hatch is nearly over. It was pretty weak as hatches go. We were lucky over the fourth and had no piles of flies on shoreline. It gets so bad some years that it is like there is a 120 ft by 4 ft six inch thick animal rotting on your shore. The fishing was fair to good last weekend. I fished midlake humps. I caught most of my fish with crawlers. I had some beautiful leeches that the fish would not touch. I used a jig and rainbow with some success. The best bite was on the fourth before the storm rolled in. But the party is over for me. Won’t be back up until August. It was a great May and June.

I sure like jigging but only with the shiners. Which with the heat might be difficult to keep alive. Hopefully the bugs will hold off until next week. We are the south side so hopefully the bugs will stay off shore. Does not look like any strong north winds blowing in the near future so we should be safe. Thanks for your help

Hey Yodie how bout one more thread of fishing wisdom before the big weekend. I will have 13 people up at our place and I need to put them on the fish and fast. What there biting on, mayfly conditions shoreline spots or midlake. Thanks

Jigs and shiners for the fourth of July weekend. Unbelieveable but I will take. However it looks like you better have it all. Rigging, slow death and the jigs.

One more weekend for the jig and shiner for me. Have you seen any bugs hatching? I saw one mayfly on my boat last weekend. Last weekend we caught 30 walleyes for the boat on Friday. Then 10 on Sat. when it was calm. No keepers, all between 21-26. Sunday should have been good but it was slow too.

Way to go. Its good to know those fish exist in Leech. I have been fishin Leech for 20 yrs and have never pulled one in over 29″.

All right good to hear. May have to get a quart of shiners See you out there tomorrow.

If you fish Pelican island you will probably see me around. I am out of the south side of the big lake and that is one of my stops. Look for me on Fri and Sat in the blue yarcraft tiller with the Suzi on the back. in that order

With the cold weather it should be no problem keepin them alive this weekend. I would think that the water temp is higher than the 58 we had on Memorial day. I will have to bring everything this weekend. Even the spinners. The small mayflies have not hatched yet have they?

Have not been up for a couple of weeks. Are they still going on the shiners. I noticed you were using leeches and crawlers. Shiner fishing is my favorite. Hopeing for a couple more weekends with the jigs.

Thats great to hear. We had alot of bait problems last year. We ran out of the big bait and there wasn’t any around. We will be on the big lake. So hopefully they will be feeding on those same size perch.

My group and I will be heading up next weedend to fish the big lake so hopefully you are right. We were up on Labor day weekend and it was terrible. Had great wind in fact unfishable wind sometimes. Were the fish selective with the minnows? Last year in the fall the fish would only hit on the 3-5 inch ones which meant getting out the wallet and buying the reddtails

I am with Drewsdad. There are clouds of yoy perch in Leech. You cannot avoid em. I tried pulling spinners at 1.5-2.0 mph with a 3oz bottom bouncher and still couldn’t avoid them. I can’t even imagine rigging right now with a crawler. They don’t touch the leeches, but unfortunately the eyes won’t either. The only system that seems to work is the slow death hook. For some reason the perch can’t get the crawler when it spins. I have not tried the gulp worms yet.

Try Sugar point resort on the NE end. We went there for 15 yrs until got my own place on Leech. Very remote and you located close to many great early season fishing spots, so if the wind kicks you don’t have to travel to far. Plus you are a long way from the casino so you won’t get tempted to lose your money

With all this no wind weather, I have been looking in the depths and finding fish in 20-30 fow off the humps in the transition areas. Fish are easy to find with electronics. Just sit on them with a jig and shiner or lindy leech/crawler and these fish will bite these days. Usually that is not the case. If the wind blows fish on top.

Good to hear the bite is still on. I got tired watching the fish sitting in 25fow all fat and happy. I only boated 2 last weekend but did not spend much time out there. My boat is toast for a while due to a bad bearing deep in the motor so you might see me in 12 ft red boat with a 9.9 on it fishing in Miller Bay.

I had one on Friday morning for about 3 secs. with no follows. It was tough to see the follows though because of the wind unless they came close to the boat. The one I had on was about 20 ft from the boat. Looked to be in the low 40s. I was using the usual bucktail in the Pelican Island area.

I may try it now. That area is about 5 miles away from me. I do out at night all the time. I have found that the bite picks up in August and ends around the middle of Sept. I like to pull bigger minnow baits over shallow boulders. Anything perch color does the trick. During the day I may try dragging some redtails in the depths. I’ll be up there this weekend. You may get a visitor tailpipeing you on the rock reef . I have a blue ranger 692 with a 175 merc EFI

I was out last weekend and it was pretty poor. Caught one walleye and a slew of rockies. I pulled crawlers and spinners in 16-26ft.

Once you get the technique down it’s easy to de-hook gut hooked fish. Just go through the gill with a long hemostats. As long as you can see some of the hook you can get it out quickly 100% of the time.

I use the same p-line fl leader line. But if I am tying the snells for the boat they get the regular mono . At a dollar a snell for the line alone, they can get there own.

I almost always use live bait. but now that the perch are out I will use gulp worms on the spinner rigs. the perch will tear you up fast. Another thing that goes on now is the rusty craw nipping at leeches. You feel a tap like a walleye is taking it let go of it and come up with a crawdad.