Typically Rainy river weather today. Little bit of everything. Did get a quick photo of this double rainbow.
Water levels are up 3 to 4 feet from the end of walleye season. Dirty and plenty of crap in the water to.
Only caught the 3 Sturgeon this afternoon.
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Live up date. Sturgeon are still biting. 58, 64, 65 so far.
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Top of the ramp at Lions is about 10′ .
Prop MD got me set up. That place had props stacked floor to ceiling.
Anyone else ever get the Ribeyes from the Nelson General store? Last time in there she fresh cut them for us. Not to many old school general store around anymore. This will be diner again Saturday night.
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Seems like the cops at UNLA might of got something right. Looks like they went home for a few hours the other night after I’m sure many days of abuse by protesters. Counter protesters showed up that night tore down the barricades and worked over the protesters. Guess it took the police several hours to reorganize and get back there.
I’m sure I’m not the only one that figures these protests are all part of the war plan in the middle east by our enemies. How could it not be. The last number of years showed how easy our country turns on its self. Send in a bunch of people across the border to help stir the pot and poof. I think they might of learned from 911 that attacking us just pulled us together and we then took the fight to them. Throw in a weak president and here we are.
So how is it that part of Bidens solution to this is to move the terrorist into the US.
Or Rainy river. Is the western boarder waters good to go also?
Yes. I’m guessing they going about a month ago. Found ours soaking cut bait on current seams yesterday. Find a seam, fish it for maybe a half hour and move on. Violent strikes on that cut bait. Wasn’t sure if the rod holder was going to survive. Got 6 nice channels midday yesterday moving around trying different spots.
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I’m not sure on the miles of water either but there is plenty of them. Bet there is a ton of pontoon cruising on that stretch of river. A jet would be good for the areas above and below that pool where the skinny water is. Or just a small beater boat for getting around.
Don’t think you will be disappointed. Jet boat coming next?
That was my 2nd guess, Asian Beatles. Always messing with the plumbing.
Still looks like pretty tame water levels for this time of year. Another 4 to 5′ wouldn’t be bad. Easier to see the current seams then.
Anyone going to be out in the rain over the weekend? Might have to give it a try as my other options for the weekend are not better.
Should of told the Linders that. Their 3rd show was late season Smallies not to far up river of the dam.
Think the linders have done atleast three shows from the river up there but theirs seem to be for around Aitkin. I believe even Roland Martin did one a show up there and he launched near Brainard. Like others have said you will find everything in the river plus a really good channel cat population.
Fished out of Franconia on Sunday. Wow was the river busy. River was up a good 3 feet or more from the end of May. Guessing it’s high enough now that the new boat at Osceola might even be usable. Lots of boats out fishing White Bass but we didn’t see any get caught. Just a few sucker caught for us.
Call the well company. Who else would be more familiar with your system than them?
I just did the opposite of that. Spent two weeks up there fishing then came home to closing my shop down and going to work for someone. Sure going to miss being extremely flexible with my schedule. There is a chance tho that this new job will have long sumner hours and winter layoff. Might have to get into ocean fishing.
Sure wish I was back up there this morning just getting that 1st cup of coffee in and talking about where to fish today. That is the life.
Better tie those boys off so they don’t get pulled in by the Sturgeon. Sounds like the bite was going strong on Monday. We have a campsite reserved at Franz in a couple weeks for Sturg fishing. Those boys of yours sure are going to have some fish stories to tell at school. In the past we have even seen plenty of Sturgeon caught from shore at Birchdale.
Yep. We often joked about “only one fish per cast”. Had a few days it would of been a lot easier to count the casts that didn’t connect with fish. Dustin did a better job of keeping track of how many caught in his boat for the week and came up with something around 1250 walleyes. All I know is we caught alot.
Sounds like my pattern was just like everyone else’s. Heavy jigs with large darker blue green plastic was very good the last few days. Pitch it towards the center of the river, lift, drift and let it thunk bottom. Most hits came crashing in right before it would hit bottom.
Well maybe not exactly like everyone elses approach.
Liked my Frabil conservation net but it did not survive the Rainy trip. Might try to get a new bag for it. Liked that the webbing of the net was tight enough to not split fish fins to bad but still large enough to not give to much resistance in the water.
End of the season is here and it did not disappoint. Decided to fish a spot we caught a couple walleyes on yesterday and just camp on it because nobody else was there. Ended up with a 29, 30 and 31 pitching jigs with big plastics. Then as the day went on the river cleared of boats and the fish turned on on a number of spots. Ended the day jumping a few spots and smacking a good number of fish. Lots of 23 to 26″ fish. Wind laid down, beautiful sunset and it was over. Back to reality tomorrow.
Was fishing alone for most of the day so only hot a photo of the 31.
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From people I’ve talked with the minnow bite is real good to. Not sure if I even know how to fish one. Our bite was much better today pitching jigs. 87 walleyes total. Six 27s and two 28s. One more day to go. Once again off to new water tomorrow.
Yesterday we caught 8 walleyes. 2nd boat caught 7. Third boat caught 3. Still a decent bite going but not the numbers of last week. Minnow guys are still doing well. Water levels are still rising and water clarity is way down from 2 weeks ago. Ramps where only half full yesterday.
Always fun to catch something different but this time of year those Smallies didn’t hit or fight nearly as hard as the walleyes. Walleyes for the most part where shallower than the bass to.
Yes they liked plastics but liked hair jigs a little better.
Thats literally like catching fish in a barrel Mike!
It is at times. When you get a pattern figured out, conditions are right and the fish are there it can be fish after fish for a long time.
Changed up our area again today just so we don’t keep fishing the same spot. 50 walleyes today and guess 70 smallmouth.
Was the bite good at both birchdale and frontier?
Vidas is just as good to. Side scan for fish and fish them. Fish them however you want to. Go look for fish away from the crowds to. There are plenty of them and some of those less pressured schools are holding very nice fish.
For the last three days we are just under 700 fish total and that’s with one day only catching 32. Had a wind day that threw our game off. For big fish I’m guessing fifteen 27s, eight 28s, three 29s, a 30.5 and a 31. In those three days we have fished from Vidas to well up river of Birchdale. There are fish everywhere.
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