Lindy rig leeches on the humps. 25 30 feet for the big walleyes.

1~5 feet of water spawning. Thats my guess.
Good luck!

This is all good news to me because I will be up there camping this next weekend! glad the fish are biting and thanks for the good info. 1/4 bucktails tipped with minnows have been producing down here by duluth for me. Maybe we can sneak out for some walleyes next weekend when im up there, ill have my boat with me so u can jump in and just fish.

Buffalo.. nice fish

Do they even work!?!

Nice fish!

We stayed at southbeach. And no we did not hire a guide but from what I have heard there are quite a few guides available up there. Good luck

Thanks alot guys!
It was a great trip and learning expierence.

They don’t work very well at all…..

Thanks Ben,
Work this week is just crawling by theres no doubt about that. But the good news is that I have my blade baits ready, rods rigged up, and the marcum is ready to start showing me so big red marks!

I havent heard much as far as reports go, but im heading up sunday~thursday! Good luck to everyone heading up.
Mike

Thanks guys I appreciate the info.

Blades on backwards? Thats my guess. Not an insult by any mean plenty of people do it. Including myself once.

Ben Putnam. He will see this post on here.I can promise you that you won’t be dissapointed! Ben is a great guy and will go out of his way to make your trip successful and memorable.

O man brian thats awesome!!!! Your right!!!!!!!!

What wont I be taking Brian?

Im going to be up there march 23-29th!!! I cant wait! I havent fished it yet either but I have my Blade baits ready!

When hiring a guide to take you fishing, you dont want to spend all day marking the spots your fishing. Take all day to ask questions about why the fish are in this spot, and why your fishing them the way you are. If you do that and hire a guide a couple different times of a year, you can take that knowledge and transform it into success on other lakes and different spots on the lake you were guided on. This is just my opinion.
Good luck

Lakes that dont have walleyes in them to begin with and have alot of other fish like northerns and largemouth etc…. and we try to introduce walleyes to them or even increase the number of walleye in some lakes that dont have a huge population, is going to be hard to accomplish because stocked walleyes normally tend to hangout closer to the weed sand therefore are more impacted by largemouth and northerns. Walleyes that annually live in lakes and spawn there tend to grow up withtheir year classes and follow the deep structure living and deep flat feeding that most walleyes do. Dont get me wrong here i am going offthings i have read but i believe in this because i fish lakes with stocked walleyes only and lakes that have had walleyes long before i was around.
I hope this helps and I read that in books so its prolly not true because i didnt read it on the interent.

He is more of an open water guy, I cant blame him either, 6 hour drive to lake of the woods with…. well pool 4 in the backyard, I dont think I would make the drive either

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Thanks for the replys guys, im looking forward to getting up there on such a great body of water. Its not pool 4 but we can make it work
Mike

Good report Ben, I need to get up there again and it will have to be mid to late january after I return from a heat blast in St. John. Ill be ready to hit the ice again after that trip thats for sure. This weekend im gonna hit LOTWs and hopefully have some success, then again, if I dont I can only blame myself on a body of water like that!!
Merry Christmas and take care

O boy,
I hope your three children get well soon, however all of you will remember this christmas even if they are still sick.
Merry christmas

Good luck fishing!

Will do Ben

Thanks for the reports guys.

Thanks guys,
I appreciate the advice.
As for Ben, im looking forward to getting on the ice with you sunday if everything checks out ok.
Mike

Happy birthday guys!
Greg, I hope your out on the water today and I WISH I was down there going after the walleyes with you!! Have a good day!
Mike

I would say yes. I fish many spots like this on lakes around my area. Like some of the others have said start out deeper during the day, then work shallower during the evening hours. One tip I do have is when you get a spot that you believe should have fish, be patient with it. Be careful how early in the day you start because you might go all day not getting fish in the deep or shallow water, but come evening time the fish will most likely turn on in the shallower water. I have had that problem before . Almost no matter what lake you fish, the sharpest break to the deepest water will hold the biggest fish in that lake. Im talking walleyes by the way. . Good luck fishing