LOTW Report 8/15/2010

[Border View Lodge]

The lake keeps giving up great catches of Walleye! Downrigging has been the most productive way to catch fish during the past week out on the deep mud flats. There hasn’t been a real hot color. As long as your Shad Rap/Reef Runner/Wally Diver is running within a couple feet of the bottom, everything seems to be catching fish. A spinner rig with a crawler has been productive as well when the wind allows for some drifting. Guests are having no problem boating eater Walleye out on the charters. Most of the fish are running in the 15 – 19” range. Saugers have been more active as of late, but many are running on the small side due to some great hatches in recent years. A nice mix of the Walleye being caught are falling into the protected 19.5” – 28” slot. Those coveted slot fish can be hit or miss. One day you might get a couple, and the next day you lose track of how many you caught in the same spot. Big fish over 28” are still showing up too. A couple of them were sent to the taxidermy shop this past week.

It seems the hot and humid days are behind us, for now anyways. Temperatures really cooled off today. A few days ago temps were hovering around 90 degrees. Today’s high is just 59 with plenty of wind. The fish have continued to bit through passing storms with heavy rains and cold fronts all summer. We’ll have to wait and see how the change in weather today will affect fishing the next few days. The middle and end of the upcoming week looks much better weather wise, with mild temperatures back in the 70s.

Folks are starting to talk about the fall Rainy River bite. Is it happening yet? We are still at least a few weeks away from any increased Walleye activity in the river. The first hard frost is often a good trigger for the Emerald Shiners to start moving in the river. And when they do, Walleyes will certainly follow. Late September through October can provide some phenomenal fishing during the shiner run. The best part; the finest fishing is just a short boat ride away from Border View Lodge.

Here are a few great pictures from the week...

Fish On!



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