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Posted in Lake Of The Woods- Rainy River- Rainy Lake

May 05/14/24, 06:37:01 PM

Written by lakeofthewoodsmn

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On the south end... This year's MN Fishing Opener weekend was not only great weather wise, the walleyes and saugers were caught in good numbers. A main fish gut hauler working with a number of resorts commented it was one of the most productive opening weekends he has seen based on the amount of fish guts collected after the weekend.

The goto presentation was a jig and frozen emerald shiner. Emerald shiners are a staple in LOW and walleyes love them. Other minnows worked also, but emerald shiners are a favorite of anglers for good reason.

Four Mile Bay held good walleyes in 12 - 18'. Not a surprise as the walleye bite on the river during the spring season was good and as of late, sturgeon anglers have been reporting catching walleyes on sturgeon rigs.

The Lighthouse Gap area, Morris Point Gap and just in front of Pine Island held nice fish in 12 - 15'. Across the south shore, 18 - 22' was holding good numbers as well. As you can see, there are lots of fish around.

A quarter ounce jig in gold, glow white, pink, orange, chartreuse, or a combo of these colors tipped with a minnow worked well.

As a reminder, the limit of walleyes and saugers is a combined limit of six fish, up to four of the six can be walleyes. All walleyes between 19.5 - 28.0 inches must be released. One fish over 28.0 inches can be kept. The possession limit in MN is one daily limit of fish.

On the Rainy River... Some nice walleyes were caught on the river this weekend, although most anglers hit the lake. 10 - 15' of water was the norm.

Sturgeon fishing on the Rainy River has been excellent. The catch and release season continues through May 15th and then closes until the keep season starts up again July 1st.

Up at the NW Angle... Some nice walleyes were caught in 18 - 25 feet of water, a little deeper than anticipated. Points were good as were areas with structure. The morning and evening bite was best.

As water continues to warm, go to spots for walleyes will be neck down areas, shoreline breaks, points and bays.

The goto presentation was a jig and minnow.

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Giant, 888-Pound Tuna Is the Largest Ever Caught off Florida Coast

The bluefin tuna was 61.5 pounds heavier than the current state record, but it won't qualify as a record because multiple anglers reeled it in

By Bob Mcnally

Six anglers fishing aboard the Flat Dangerous, an 80-foot Viking based in Destin, Florida, lucked into a ferocious bite on Wednesday from an 888-pound bluefin tuna. With fish boiling on the surface all around them, the crew hooked and landed what was quickly recognized as the largest bluefin ever recorded off the Florida coast. However, because more than one angler fought the giant fish, it doesn’t qualify as a record.

This was the first time the crew had taken the new Viking out, Captain George Gill told the Destin Log. Joining Gill onboard were the boat’s owner Warren Williams, along with Eddy Griffith, Dennis Bennet, John Balters, and Kole Melancon.

The anglers ran 68 miles offshore to work around some floating “fish aggregation devices — which are large, man-made floating objects designed to attract tuna, dolphin, and other fish. They caught a few small tuna before the surface erupted with a huge school of bluefins feeding on top.

“There were hundreds of [bluefins],” Gill said. “The school was massive, and they were all the same [size] of fish.’

Gill eased the Viking boat into the school, offering them small tuna baits made from the fish they’d already caught. They hooked two big tuna in a row but broke them off each time. Around 1 p.m., they hooked a third giant bluefin and pinned an oversized circle hook in the corner of its mouth.

The surface strike was an incredible thing to see, Griffith said. When the fish sucked down their bait, it produced a hole that “looked like a Russian submarine was attacking.”

“It was incredible – that’s burned in my memory forever,” he said.

Williams was first on the rod, but he eventually wore out and gave it up. The fish kept boring deep, and he wasn’t gaining much line back on the reel, which was spooled with 100-pound test. Melancon took the rod next, but he eventually passed it onto the others aboard the Flat Dangerous.

The tuna fought so hard that Gill said it died about an hour into the battle. He thinks the fish must have gotten its tail wrapped in the fishing line.

“So, we spent four hours, inches at a time, getting that thing up,” Gill said.

They finally hauled the tuna aboard around 7 p.m. and returned to Destin by 9 p.m. The tuna was so massive that the anglers had a hard time getting it through the open stern door and up to the scales on the dock. An onlooker posted videos of their struggle on Facebook, along with several photos showing how giant the tuna was.

The bluefin measured 110 inches, or more than 9 feet, long and weighed 888 pounds on the scale. Had only one angler reeled it in, the fish would have easily broken the standing state record for bluefin tuna, an 826.5-pounder caught in 2017.