Brittman wrote:

All good and the night bite on lake of the woods has been discussed often over the past couple years.

I do not think the guy starting the original request has his own wheelhouse. So unless you can recommend a LOW resort still offering the “two house gig and they move you plan” … that option is not available to him.

LOW: Can be lots of fish, but often sorting becomes a must ..
Red: Known to slow down in Jan-Feb, but some get lucky. Probably get your 3 fish limit in 2 days-nights fishing … then maybe not.
ML: More people go there because it is close and roads are plowed. Moving depths is probably the right thing to do if staying overnight. Last time we were on ML (rented a sleeper), the rattle wheels went all night long … we pulled up a lot of beautiful 19″ fish time and time again … only to let them go looking for that magical 22″. To be honest it seems like many people renting houses do not catch much except small perch. To the original poster … did you catch fish on your previous trips ?

We caught some fish, but action was pretty slow overall. Had some luck overnight on rattle reels and some luck jigging spoons a couple years back. Small perch were caught quite a bit last year. We liked the wheelhouse aspect so that we could just drive out to where the house was in our truck. We have portable shelters, but don’t have any 4 wheelers or snowmobiles so we stayed closed to where we could walk our houses from the wheelhouse.

We decided this year instead of renting a wheelhouse to split an Eskimo 850 outbreak to use for camping. So now it’s just finalizing where we want to go.

Bearcat89 wrote:

The night bite on lotw is great. I don’t understand the ” no nite bite on lotw”. Don’t sit in 27 ft of water where all the little sauger been all day. Move. Lots of big fish caught after dark.

I have never fished it, that is just something I have seen on a lot of forums and posts when I have been researching. Thank you for the input!

fishthumper wrote:

I would also lean towards Winnie. You will probably have more road options than on Leech. In leech was intriguing because of the potential of a <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>perch bite, Winnie should be even better. I’ve only ever fished Red earlier in the season. End of Jan. early Feb. is not what I would consider early. Usually by Feb. the bite on Red is starting to slow down. Your post or profile does not say where you will be coming from. Bigstone lake would be another option I’d take a look at.

We will be coming up from Omaha, so Big Stone would be a much closer option.

BigWerm wrote:

IMO success on Leech requires being mobile, not real conducive to a sleeper house/ice camping. Red typically falls off later into the season, not saying you can’t do well but it’s a lot more hit and miss, emphasis on miss. I’d look at Winnie or the extra hour drive to LOW.

I haven’t looked into Winnie at all, but we did consider LOW. Since we are camping, the lack of a “night bite” at LOW somewhat pushed us towards the others.