The final weekend of big game fishing has arrived. The houses have been doing pretty good with Oklahoma landing a huge 32 1/2-inch walleye with a 18-inch girth. I gave Laura a pink hoodie as a memento of her beautiful fish, they plan on getting a replica of a once in a lifetime fish. They went home with 14 fish I be leave. The fishing defiantly took a up tic the past couple weeks so that’s nice to see. We do have a full house with the crew busting their butts the next 24 hours to get everything set up.
Cross country Travel on lake after this snow mix and high winds is not quite as easy as it was. Stay away from old berms Our main road has been plowed. Ours plans are still to target the elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappies after the game fish season ends. We have been getting a couple in a few houses but still focused on walleyes.
Theres still plenty of openings after walleye closes. It’s never been easy for me to pull the plug even though I do not get to do the hard work it’s still fun being on the lake every day.
The big game season has come to an end. The houses were full other than 1 no show which worked out for us. Jim and his 2 buddies were in north Dakota where they landed 6 elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappies Friday night. They got just 2 more Saturday night Jim was just tickled pink as this is his favorite fish. He was amazed the size, thickness, and colors.
We had Tennessee and Utah set up on a new area for 6 first time customers. I had high expectation only for such a grand lake too humble me as the fishing was on the very poor side. Sorry guys next time.
California had Jeromy and his two sons they had action the first night landing a half dozen walleyes. They were a couple hundred yards from the guys in
Utah. Colorado had Bob the owner they had good fishing taking home some fish and catching over 20 I think.
Todd had Florida and Montana with his daughters and hubbies. We had moved Montana over buy Florida as the couple in Florida had good fishing the prior night. Jonny boy found the mother lode of the elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappies and had Todd plus a couple of their buddies come fish where he was after his clients called it a day with their 20. They pounded on them 200 yards from Florida and Montana they kept I would guess 30. We moved both houses Saturday morning only to have poor fishing in the new spot also.
Old Minnesota had my good friend Wayne with a couple of his friends they got a few walleyes a pike a perch so was slow for them also. Alaska was horrible even though they saw fish they could not get them to bite. Idaho and Oklahoma did well but the second night was slower. While Roy just down from them had good fishing Saturday night but not so well Friday night stupid fish.
Texas had Nick and a couple buddies they ended up with a few.
So, to sum up the final week the bite was just so so which was disappointing compared to other years.
Dusty and Jonny boy have been doing really well with the crappie trips which they sure enjoy.
The hammer and I had dinner in old Minnesota after Jonny boy and I moved it. The hammer did manage to land an elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappie to carry her nick name for another year on a grand lake that owes us nothing.
The team has most of the week to again move houses to where we feel they could have a big school of fish come under them.
Jake has a big crew coming this coming weekend They do have 4 of our houses reserved but we still will have others still open at this time. My plans are to fish every evening to see how many more elusive yet catchable upper red lake crappies I can land.