Another week another walleye, not a bad problem to have. The days leading up to the holiday weekend were more of what we had encountered last week. Winds blew from every which way, clouds came and went and we even got our grass watered, one night it seemed like we were going to get a summers worth of rain in one night, one of our neighbors told me he had over 3 inches in his rain gauge from the one storm.
Water temps are rising at a rapid rate, right now we’re into the low 60’s on the main lake and temps are getting into the mid 60’s in shallower water, while gassing up a rental boat today I noticed 67 degrees in the harbor. With the rising temps season changes are going to start taking place. Shiner minnows are not becoming a tough-to-find commodity and will soon be unavailable, look to change over to lindy rig harnesses with night crawlers or leeches, which are the go-to baits of June.
Pictured below from L to R: Kevin (my eyes are closed) Luehrs from Glencoe, MN, Jasper Artis from Cambridge, MN – Dan Martin his friend Larry and his other friend Larry with a nice stringer of walleye, and a live-well full of 40 sunfish.
If you’re one of the few who still possess some shiners keep at it with the jig and minnow presentation, fish wind-blown shoreline structure, stay shallow, especially in the evening and hang on, there are plenty of hungry walleye willing to give your line a tug.
Now if you’re not so lucky in the minnow department don’t worry, there are plenty of walleye showing up on mid-lake reefs, bump, humps and flats. Tie on a slip sinker with a lindy rig, and drag around a leech or crawler at about 1 mph and you’ll be in for a successful day as well.
As of today walleye and pike are still being caught at high quantities in sucker bay, areas around goose island, little and big hardwood points and up north into deadhead bay have been best. If a 10 mile boat ride isn’t in your future stick around stoney and little stoney points, grassy point or marshal point they are producing good amounts of slot fish(which are always fun to catch) and a sprinkling of eaters. Northern Pike have been on a tear lately, guests have been catching them by the hundreds, many in the 22-25 inch perfect eater range.
Pictured below from L to R: Matthew Suchy and his uncle from Champlin, MN, Ethan Truax from Mason City, IA – Chuck, Steve and Matthew Suchy with a few of the 60+ keepers their party has massed over the weekend.
Perch, crappie and sun-fish have also been showing themselves, which is a normal spring time occurrence, our harbor has been the place to be for crappie, guests have been hauling in 12-14 inch fish that are trying to finish their spawning. Perch are still semi-active in the bays, uram, miller, some near second duck point in sucker bay, sun-fish are in the very northern tip of sucker bay in the muddy pencil reeds spawning as well. Many of the pan fish coming in have still had eggs.
With Memorial Day on everyone’s mind I would like to take a short moment and thank everyone past, present and future for your service, we couldn’t do what we do without you. This is more than a 3 day weekend to many people and the bravery shown is very much appreciated.
Featured image up top is of Steve Suchy from Champlin, MN and Scot Bowman from New Hope, MN proudly showing off matching 27 inch walleye.
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