Jim Stan and Randy did not do so well. they were fishing for pike with big sucker minnows as well as fat heads. They did catch a few walleyes but nothing to brag about.
Jim had his big pike on and lost it at the hole.They also lost a smaller one.
We have had about 7 inches of snow so far. It seems its not as wet as they pritacted so thats good.
It gets real busy for me starting today as I have a 3 houses that need to be on the lake by sunday eve. Now throw in mother nature and its a whole new ball of wax. Oh well you will never beat her so you try and plan to atleast keep her in check. As always its looks like another challenging season which makes it so much fun. Gotta love it as it keeps you on your toes

Pat and barb headed to lotw after spending the weekend in our florida fish house. This was there second year and they seemed to have a good time. they were able to have fresh fish for dinner and may of taken a couple keepers home. I did not get to say goodbye as I was in church sunday morning when they pulled out. Ari,Chris and jessie also caught some fish but also got a ticket for keeping a fish in the slot. Oops
Thegreek wa here helping me and we now have 4 of our 8 houses on the lake. we did some fishing in his portable and fished utah but did not have much luck. Atleast were finding not where to put the houses.
Jim.stenny and Randy spent the night in pld minnesota and I willbe checking on them later this morning.

well I guess its official for me as of yesterday we now have three house on the lake. Montana,old minneota and florida. The greek spent the night in montana and I am headed out to see how he did and wet a line myself.. barb and Pat will be rolling in this morning,followed by Arie and his buddies folllowed by Bill the plumber. I’m sure the greek will want to wet a line again tonight so we will be getting more of the house’s ready to hit the lake.

Spent just a little time on the lake yesterday. I measured just over 9 inches about 1/4 mile out. I would say there were 20 fishermen on the lake yesterday. I did here of a 41 inch pike caught. Buddy has staked a road out 7 miles and Ryan has staked a road out around 3.
Talked to Dean yesterday he is the new owner of Hudecs. They have renamed it beacons harbor. He Gave me a tour of what they have done so far and the rooms look great. I think he plans on having lodging by the first of the year if everything goes as planned. It will be nice to be able to send a few friends and fishermen out of there this winter to do some fishing/scoutting.
The greek will be helping me this year and searching for crappies in his spare time. He will be offering one on one guiding or groups through me if any one is interested in chasing the elusive but still catchable red lake crappie

Well it took a while but were making ice now. the greek tried out infront of our place tonight but never got a bite. I personnly a’m never in a hurry to be the first one out there. A fish is just a fish and I can wait a few days until I feel totally comfortable with the conditions. It looks like we have a nice string of cold weather so thats a plus. A few of the locals have caught a couple of walleyes but no one is pounding them that I know of. I expect with the reports a few fishermen will be up here next weekend.

The fishing had been pretty slow until I had Rick and Monty last week Sept 15th and 16th. We did fairly well as they ate fish both nights they were here and also took home 6. I also kept two for the wife to take down to here dads. jake was up the 17,18th and 19th and the fishing went back to poor? i will be taking Kellie and here mom out tonight so we will see if they are hungry.

The fishing got a little tougher since my last report. I had the pleasure of taking Brian and Jim from chicago last weekend. the winds were very nasty and made for some tough fishing. Both days we had to work our way over to the north shore as the waves we realing rolling in. the first day we had fun catchiung some sheephead but the walleye did not cooperate. saturday the wind were about the same 20 mph out of the northwest. After catching two sheephead and one small walleye I decided we should try fishing the wind blown side of the lake. We manage to catch one 19 inch walleye drifting. After 5 drifts through the same general area I threw in the towel and we called it a day.
Today I was able to get out for 2 hours from 11am till 1 and managed two catch two 19 inch walleyes.One drifting the other trolling. lets hope things are looking up as my mom amd dad are coming up from Iowa this weekend and it would be nice to catch some fish while there here.

The wihe Kellie and I did a little fishing yesterday July 3rd. We got on the lake around 11 am . The first area we fished we drifted jigs as Kellie did not want to troll. After landing two sheephead we headed out deeper. After throwing out a marker to mark the spot we played the kight wind and drifted over the area. The first drift we both landed a small waleye. The second driftalso produce a small walleye and a miss. The third drift landed a keeper walleye. All the fish seemed to becoming in about the same spot so I anchored up wind , It did not take that long to catch another keeper and again a few smaller ones. After are third keeper we pulled anchor and went for a short ride to cool off. I then anchored closer to are marker and Kellie tagged into a big pike. The battle was on as I tried to insturct her so we could land the fish. she did a great job as the fish made numerous runs everytime we had it near the boat. With the big net in hand i was able to get the fish in the net and unhook the jig. kellie got the camera out and I held the pike up for a quick pic.We were able to release the fish unharmed a beautiful pike just under 40 inches.

Wow I sure drop the ball when it comes to fishing reports on here.
The new slot limit took effect on the 15th of June and man was the access busy monday the 15th. the weather had a huge effect as I have no idea where all the boats come from for the day but it looked like opener out there and the fishing was a little to good.
The fishing has now slowed a bit but were still finding some fish and its nice to be able to keep a couple over 17 inches. One fish over 18 would easly feed the wife and I.
i took Greg,niel nad Mark fishing yesterday and we had a pretty good day. They ended up keeping 8 fish inbetween 15 to 18 1/2 inches. the sheephead were also biting which kept us busy as well as Neil landing a beautiful 32 inch pike. the guys in the cabin did real well and got plenty of fish for a fish fry. Last friday I took Don out in the morning and we got 3 for him to take home all inbetween 18 and 19 inches.

Rob and his crew headed home yesterday. they did manage to find two more of the elusive upper red lake crappie and a few keeper walleyes. They hope to make it back in August and camp on the river lot.
starting next monday the slot goes up to any fish under 20 inches. Not sure what to expect as I have not had any calls for lodging.I expect we will see a lot of day trippers that just drive up for the day.
I’m not sure how to get the wife to go fishing with me. She a fair weather fishermen and the temps will not cooperate.
I guess I will have to fish by myself untill we get some nicer weather