Fishing on Lake of the Woods- LOW Tourism

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Limits of walleyes the norm as summer patterns stabilize.  Walleyes are being found deep over mud flats and reefs. Arnesen's Reef, Long Point area, Starren Shoal, North Bridges Reef, Knight, and Garden Island, all the way up to Little Oak Island are doing well jigging with a frozen shiners in 30'. Windy and low light, try on top or edges, sunny or calm days, check rock to mud transitions.  Crawler harnesses on off shore flats and on windier days extremely effective.  Crawlers or leeches on a hammered gold or pink spinner.  Deep mud in front of Pine Island in 32' and in front of the fields (near Zippel Bay) also productive.

Resident walleyes on the Rainy River holding out in deeper holes, 15' - 25'.  A jig and minnow the go to bait.  Smallmouth bass still active.  The normal haunts, mouths of rivers, boulder areas with small crankbaits and spinnerbaits.
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Up at the NW Angle, walleyes are abundant in 22-24 feet of water over rock piles. Jig with a minnow or spinners with crawlers have been hot. Muskies and Pike are active and still in the weed beds and around boulders and saddles of islands. Lots of big fish being caught and released.  Big numbers of smallmouth bass around sloping boulder areas.

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