Willmar area fishing

[Cody Gruchow]

im heading over to the willmar area today for the weekend and i was wondering if anyone had any news on how the fishing is out there. any lake in particular? My dad and i will be targeting northerns and maybe some bass and walleyes. but mainly northerns. anyone?

[Jdrummer]

I think diamond is giving up a few fish ? check with a bait shop to see what they have to say ? Good luck

[PDOGG]

Diamond ALWAYS gives up a few fish.  Might be up there this weekend myself.

[The General]

Diamond has been very slow during the day.  I live 3 miles from this lake and fish it often.  But I don't usually target bass or northern so I can't speak in regards to them.  I know bass fishing isn't very tough and you should be able to find a few of them out there easily.  If you are looking to catch quality and not quantity for northern I'd go to Green.  Just a few miles NW of Diamond. 

P.S. Cody if you want to catch some of those lunker SM on green I'd be glad to show you on a map the two places I usually catch them.  They are in front of the old mill and Lone tree bar.  Just a thought.  You should definitely be able to catch a nice SM to post on the board.  West wind is the best for Lone tree, but it still isn't much of a problem.   

[thunderpout]

General... ya took the word right out of my mouth(green)... yep, just a long cast away from Wilmar....and SMALLIES!  Go get em Cody! :fishing2:

[Cody Gruchow]

well friday we hit games lake and it only gave up a few 2lb bass. then saturday with it being so windy green was out of the question. so we went to calhoun and caught a few more bass. thats about the only good thing i can say about that lake, to shallow and weedy for my likings. deepest spot we found was 5 feet. it was irratating(sp) then we loaded up and went to nest lake because we had word that the island was giving up northerns. trolled around the island for about 45 minutes and caught nothing, tryed shallow tryed deep and inbetween nothing was taking. then made our way over to the highway over pace on nest lake and as we came under the walking bridge the fish finder went nuts with all the pan fish and as soon as we cleared the bridge i had a nice hit on my firetiger rapala. a nice 32 inch northern. that was the only fish that was boated.