In prior years when there was a good perch population did the fish move in shallow as you get later into the season or do they normally stay out deep in the mud basins? Do they look for shallow weeds, rock or sand?

We were up last weekend as well, and fishing is good out on the lake. We fished from Zipple up to Long point and caught fish anywhere from 24-30′ of water. Jigs and shiners worked best but rainbows held there own. Had to fish the river on Saturday because of the wind and it wasn’t that great for us. We stayed around the wheelers point and 4 mile area.

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How’s the water clarity?

How difficult would it be to launch a boat solo right now? I’ve got a 18′ Tyee on a roller trailer. Is there enough shore ice gone to beach the boat while I park the truck? Coming up Tuesday & Wednesday and all my fishing partners are busy

I have the spoon daddy I believe it’s 34″. Great rod for jigging raps and lippless baits but it also good for 1/8 ounce or bigger spoons. Medium fast action

Fished the last 2 days. Boated 30 fish for 2 guys but couldn’t connect on anything big. Saw a few hogs caught but fishing seemed slow for most boats. Water temp was 37 and visibility is around 2′ give or take

How’s the water clarity holding up? Hope all this rain and snow didn’t muck it up

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

We fished last weekend and caught fish in 24-27′ straight out from the gap. Mostly small fish but enough keepers to fill out 3 limits. Jigs and shiners is what we used. Shiners are thick in the river but the walleyes don’t seem to be there yet. Water temp is around 60

How was the fishing last weekend? Is the water level up high enough to get larger boats out. I’m thinking of going up there this weekend.

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Went for a drive yesterday around Wright county and it’s going to be at least another week or so for the lakes around here.

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Rapid Marine does good work but get your boat in early.

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Just stared using them last winter and love it. Bottom separation is much clearer then a flasher witch is game changing for walleye fisherman. Much more appealing to stare at all day than a flasher. I wouldn’t waste the money on a the Ice pack Huminbird sells… it’s kind of expensive and it doesn’t include a battery. Buddy built me a power box with led lights and USB chargers and Ram Mount for less and they hold a larger 12 amp battery compared to the normal 7 amp. This solves some of the power issues along with using the right setting mentioned above. So far so good for me you won’t catch me using another flasher. If your worried about power issues go with a 5″…It’s all you need in my opinion

Fished Friday the 29th out of Jr’s and it was slow. 2 walleyes for the 2 of us. Fished anywhere from 8-11′ of water. Pretty similar story from everyone we talked to. Oh well still good to get out for the first time

We fished Saturday afternoon and caught 10 walleye and saugers, all by the dam on jigs and minnows. I had 48 degree water temps. River is high and moving. Probably a foot or so of visibility. Pink seem to be our best color

It was ruff, lots of wind and rain maid the fishing tuff. We did mange to get 8 walleyes on rigs with sucker minnows in 20′ to 25′ of water.

Hey Guys, I’ll be up this weekend and wondering if anyone has any current reports? What are the water temps at? We’ll be on Ottertail and fishing for walleyes. Any info would be great, this we’ll be my first time up there and looking forward to it. Thanks

I was out on Sauk last week. Only got a couple of small walleyes and about a 100 perch. Perch burned up my minnows in a few hours and the walleyes didn’t want night crawlers. Should turn on here with the cooler weather. Water temp was 66-68

Thanks Trev, I’ll keep that in mind. Are there good bait shops up that way or should I be looking before I go for bait?

Hey Guys, I’ll be fishing Ottertail for the first time the first week of October and was just looking general advice on baits, depth and structure for that time of year. We’ll mainly be targeting walleye but if there is a good panfish bite wouldn’t be opposed to chasing them as well. Thanks

I use to go up to MILL for memorial weekend every year. It’s got good bass and panfish in it. There are walleyes but there tuff to figure out. Look to the pencil reed islands for bass and panfish. Try casting shallow running cranks at night in front of the culvert on the northwest corner for walleye. It’s a nice little lake

Which access did you use? How was it holding up?Might give it one more try Sunday .

I haven’t been out there since New years…but I stoped at Fletcher’s a couple weeks ago for some shinners and he said the fishing on Big Sauk has been terrible this year. I drove by the south access and there was some plowed roads…how far they go I couldn’t tell ya.

Made it out last Friday and it was slow. Went out of the south access as there was a nice plowed trail for the first mile, then we bombed it out to our spot from there. Beautiful day to be out so no complaints

Yea someone plowed some roads out of the north access, nothing out of the South access. You can off road it but there are drifts you have to watch out for. I’ll be trying it again tomorrow