With summer officially started, and although the weather has cooled here in the north country, the walleye bite on Otter Tail shows no signs of cooling off anytime soon….
A nice school of fish hanging out on a 7-8ft flat just a couple miles from the resort has kept the rods bending for many of our guests. Several nice catches of 14-18″ fish hit the grease bath over the weekend, and one guest set his PB walleye with a 27″ beauty (I’ll post the pic as soon as he sends it to me.)
Most successful method remains a dragging a 1/8oz jig tipped with a shiner, drifting or trolling the flats. Leeches on slip bobbers and rigs also turned a few fish over the weekend, as did trolling cranks in the evening. For the third weekend in a row, EVERYONE caught fish – some of our ‘regulars’ have reported this being the best fishing they have had in quite some time on OT….
I’ll try to get some more pics up this week, but having some card issues with the camera, plus, several nice catches were brought in by the evening trollersafter my head was already on the pillow. Was able to get one pic to cooperate though…..Tim Johnson from Austin spent the weekend at Vacationland and brought in this nice catch and took home a limit of nice eyes for him and his soon-to-be bride…….nice job Tim.
Still a couple openings in June if anyone wants in on the action….. Spot tail shiners are gonna be hard to come by in the next week or so, so expect leeches, crawlers and red tails to be the bait of choice for the duration.
Felt great to get back on the water feel the ol’ ‘thump’ on the jighead…..and what a great pic by my 8 yr old daughter eh?
