Kevin Nelson
09-07-2009, 03:35 PM
The past week was probably the nicest weather of our season - highs in the 70's and 80's - no rain and reasonable to light winds. Kakagi (Crow) has warmed up slightly to upper 60 degree temps on the main lake and few back bays reaching 70. Stevens Bay on Lake of the Woods is a little warmer with most of it being in the low 70's.
The camp was pretty quiet with only a couple groups in most of the time. The fishing has been really fun, with no one struggling to catch fish.
Lake Trout - about a half dozen Lake Trout were over 8 pounds this week. Outings of 5-8 Lake Trout in a couple hour fish were very common. I finally was able to get myself past the 1 or 2 fish hurdle catching 3 solid Lake Trout in an hour - 4.5, 6 & 9 pounds.
Muskie - LOTW highlight was a 22 pound Muskie caught on a crawler rig by a Walleye angler. Kakagi Muskie action included a 32", 36" & 40" along with several others seen chasing cowgirl type lures with most Muskies coming from weed beds. The Muskie story of the week would be an estimated 52" (the angler has caught other 50" fish this year) that was hooked, fought to the boat but too big for the landing net and ended up being lost at the boat after trying to net the big Muskie. Please be sure to bring BIG landing nets this fall :-)
Walleye - Solid bite with several in the 3-5 pound range, including a 70 walleye catch day.
Bass - good to great bite reported from Kakagi, Jessie and Cedartree. Cedartree had lots of bigger Smallmouth bass biting including a couple 4 pound and 20 in the 2-3 pound range - crankbaits and spinner baits were working very well.
Northern Pike - great bite this week - 30 Pike in an afternoon trip to Whitefish bay that included a 35" pike. 40 Pike caught on a 1/2 day trip into Cedartree (most between 25" - 30").
When we have great weather and great fishing for everything it is a very fun week!
Regards,
The camp was pretty quiet with only a couple groups in most of the time. The fishing has been really fun, with no one struggling to catch fish.
Lake Trout - about a half dozen Lake Trout were over 8 pounds this week. Outings of 5-8 Lake Trout in a couple hour fish were very common. I finally was able to get myself past the 1 or 2 fish hurdle catching 3 solid Lake Trout in an hour - 4.5, 6 & 9 pounds.
Muskie - LOTW highlight was a 22 pound Muskie caught on a crawler rig by a Walleye angler. Kakagi Muskie action included a 32", 36" & 40" along with several others seen chasing cowgirl type lures with most Muskies coming from weed beds. The Muskie story of the week would be an estimated 52" (the angler has caught other 50" fish this year) that was hooked, fought to the boat but too big for the landing net and ended up being lost at the boat after trying to net the big Muskie. Please be sure to bring BIG landing nets this fall :-)
Walleye - Solid bite with several in the 3-5 pound range, including a 70 walleye catch day.
Bass - good to great bite reported from Kakagi, Jessie and Cedartree. Cedartree had lots of bigger Smallmouth bass biting including a couple 4 pound and 20 in the 2-3 pound range - crankbaits and spinner baits were working very well.
Northern Pike - great bite this week - 30 Pike in an afternoon trip to Whitefish bay that included a 35" pike. 40 Pike caught on a 1/2 day trip into Cedartree (most between 25" - 30").
When we have great weather and great fishing for everything it is a very fun week!
Regards,