It’s really amazing what a few days can do to fishing prospects. Weather has cooperated for the most part giving us a few days of high sun and low winds, while yesterday we were buffeted with wind and waves for the majority of day landlocking any would-be angler, I think 1 boat left the harbor. While the weather improved water temps have risen a few more degrees, nudging towards the 70 degree mark and for many species is the sweet spot for activity levels.
June is a unique month were catching walleye is primarily done one way, dragging rigs with either leeches or night crawlers, finesse fishing rock structure. You really need to stay mobile and watch your sonar, bounce around on different rocks piles, humps and break lines, if you’re not marking fish move to the next spot, make sure to fish rock piles from different direction, drift from the south and backtroll back to the north, with the constant wind changes we’ve been having a short move can often times land you on some loot.
Area’s in the south-east part of the main lake have been best for walleye, find rocks in the 10-14 foot range, the north end of Walker bay is going pretty good too, though walleye tend to be a little smaller on average there. If you would rather troll crank baits, hit submarine island, big rock reef or the west side of bear island.
Pictured below from L to R: Riediger family from Wakonda SD – Justin Rogers from Des Moines, IA showing the temperature swings we’ve been having, one minute overalls, next minute, sunburn – Ken Myer from Minnetonka, MN
If casting for northern pike is more your cup of tea (for many people it is) tie on some mepps spinners or spoons and hit the cabbage filled bays east of bear island, sucker bay, miller bay or uram bay, you’ll have no problem catching as many eater as you can handle. Large mouth bass are in the same areas and also willing to give you hours of fun, leech lake has some very large bass too tipping scales at over 6 pounds, but for whatever reason they get foreshadowed by the prestige of walleye fishing.
Pictured below from L to R: Dorothy Rogers from Fort Dodge, IA with a 25.999 inch walleye she couldn’t quite stretch to 26 – Steffan Moran from Charlotte NC – Mike, Justin, Dorothy and Don Rogers from Fort Dodge and Des Moines, IA with a stringer full of pike and walleye – another shot of Steffan this time accompanied by his step son Parker and a few eater pike.
Muskie season has been open for a couple of weeks with little to report on, with water temps still climbing towards 70 muskie activity is going to be low, most anglers wait until early July to really focus on them, more info to come soon.
Featured image up top is of Parker Deal from NC on his first trip to Minnesota taking advantage of a beautiful afternoon fishing from the point out in front of our lodge. It’s really wonderful to see children that love to fish, gotta teach them young!
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Enjoy reading these fishing reports. How often do you post them? Very helpful reading
In the summer and fall we try to put new ones out every week on Monday’s – thanks for reading!