While the temps have been down, the fishing action has been hot, hot, hot. How about one person using over 6 dozen leeches in two hours! It is getting expensive for bait, more so than gas.
I typically have been trolling cranks for a few hours to get bigger walleyes and then switching over to live bait, usually leeches, though crawlers work too and slipbobber, catching them hand over fist. There are walleyes all over the Flats. On calm days look for white bass surfacing and pitch cranks at them. Northerns are still around and turn up at the end of your line on either trolled cranks or livebait.
Thanks for the report Kevin. I think for most people who have never been to Devils Lake can’t imagine how good the fishing is. Ever since I fished it for the first time during the RCL I have been telling people it is the best fishery I know of. I don’t think people understand just how good it is our there.
Does the bite usually hold strong all year out there?
I’d just as soon people stay away and let me have the whole lake to myself.
When casting cranks into the shoreline it’s like you are “up north”. There is very little development along the shoreline and you are right there with the wildlife. Really no devlopment when compared to the famous lakes of Minnesota. We think it is crowded but I betcha you don’t.
I would think this bite will last until freeze-up. Then it will continue into hard water. Then we can get the perch again.
Like most lakes the size goes down in August. Here the small fish go on an all day terror and the big ones make feeding movements all day long.
People ask from time to time “How is the night bite”. I dunno because I never had to fish at night!