Everything was biting this week.

• Crappies in 16′ of water suspended over weeds at 10′.
• Perch in 20′ of water laying on the bottom in grass.
• Northern Pike taking almost anything over weeds.
• Bass shallow and deep over weeds.
• Slow musky and walleye this week.

Cousins having fun getting their first picture on our fishing photo wall.

It was a great day for one of our guests. David was on Irving fishing midday along the shoreline structure. He caught a nice large mouth bass on a Senko worm. While he was reeling it in he saw he had more than one fish; hanging onto his bass was a 38 inch musky. He was able to land both of them.  The Timble family said it was great Northern Pike bite all week using spin baits.

This musky was hungry and went after the bass on the hook.

2 for 1

Crappies were biting last week in the shallow wood. They moved out with the cold front and should finish up this week with our day time temps in the lower 70’s every day.

Bluegills and bass are on the beds now and should finish by weeks end.

Walleyes are in the emerging green weeds in  10′ of water, biting on minnows and jigs.

Northern Pike are biting on everything-look for weeds.

Muskies are starting to bite in this past spawn period.

Don’t forget to match jigs with type of cloud cover and keep the muskie/pike small to medium size.

Happy fishing!

Friday morning was a successful day for our guests who went out with one of our preferred fishing guides, Mike Errington. Click here to  check out Mikes website.

Successful fishing

It’s been a pretty good ice fishing bite this year. It was bitter cold (-20 degrees) for a couple of weeks and then got warm (38 degrees). Pan fish, northerns and bass were all active. I fished afternoons and found a pretty good bite between 2-4 PM. Medium size shiners for northerns and waxies/spikes for pan fish. I prefer Glow type jigs with chartreuse and orange, but many other also work. My son likes gold. But my very favorite is………

Wishing you warm fingers and toes. John

Even though spring is officially here, ice fishing is still going strong. Last weekend our son Brian and John’s good friend Todd came up for some late season ice fishing.

I apologize that it has been so long since I have blogged anything. November and December seemed to just fly by! Our oldest son, Brian was here on vacation  January 1-9. His friend Jim joined him and they had a fantastic week of ice fishing. There may not be a lot of snow up here, but the ice is in great shape. John even managed to get out for a few days to enjoy the fishing. We have had many great meals of fish this last week. Brian, who is a chef, even made us walleye for breakfast one morning! Enjoy all the photos.

Never tried ice fishing? Maybe this winter can be your first. We’d love to have you come stay with us and enjoy some ice fishing.

Jim having fun arranging the fish.

Tea party on the ice 🙂

Walleye and crappies

Waiting to be filleted.

Nice size on the crappies.

Jim’s 22 inch walleye made for a great breakfast!

The best bite of the week was right at sunset.

Bluegills filling up the hole in the ice.

Jim’s nice bass

John and Travis had great luck on Ballard!

It doesn’t matter what size fish you catch, it’s the fun of being on the water with family. Grandpa Bill was all smiles with his small catch because he was enjoying time spent with his granddaughters.