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Trout Lake Resort 1-800-258-7688
www.troutlakeresort.com 
(7-01-08)

The water temperature is rising and the fishing on Trout Lake is picking up. A few days ago someone caught a 22" Rainbow, and earlier this week a couple of our guests caught their limit of Lake Trout. The Lake Trout are about 30 feet deep, and the Rainbows are starting to come up to the surface to get the May Fly hatch. It should be exciting around here for a while as the Rainbows surface for the fly hatch. Some of our guests fly fish for the Rainbows and others troll the surface with a rod and reel. Either way works when those Rainbows are hungry!

Barky's Resort on Otter Tail Lake
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(6/17/08)

Walleyes are being caught in 18-25” of water on the shoreline breaks and humps.  Grandpa’s Island and Balmoral Saddle have been good areas.  Crawlers, leeches, bottom bouncers and spinners are being used.  Crank baits in the evenings off the flats in 5-10’ of water.  Bass bite is strong.  Sunnies and crappies have been good on West Battle, Clitherall, Fish, East Lost and Deer Lakes.

Marc and Kathy Gruenenwald

Barky's Resort on Otter Tail Lake

800-451-0510

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(5/29/08)

Lakes still hovering around 58-60, crappies are in and bass are going nuts. Walleye/Pike are active at depths ranging from 10-22 ft depending on the lake. Bass 1-7 ft, depending on the lake. Patterns are finally starting to emerge. Minnows are still key for eyes with crawlers a close second. Leeches--use medium sized--NOT JUMBO. dont be afraid to bump up speed to trigger the fish, good luck

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(7-03-08) 

Deep water strucutre fishing is now the best bet on Winnie and many of the area lakes. Most of the fish have pulled from the shorelines and have found a home base on many of the different humps or bars on the mid-lake of Winnie.

Leeches and crawlers worked behind a live bait rig will be a good options for the next few weeks. Salmo Cranbaits worked along the 20 foot structures at 15-17 foot down nearing the 2-2.5 MPH mark is producing fishing and will become very effective as the water hits the mid 70 degree mark.

On Windy days, one can still find an assortment of fish along the weedbeds of Winnie, along with a mixed bag of pike and perch. We have found the #4 Salmo Hornet to be the bait of choice over the last week in the shallows. Here we are running the blue dace or hot perch color with 40 to 55 foot of line in the 6-8 foot of water.

So there are planty of great fishing opportunities happening right now in the Grand Rapids area and the night bite on Pokegama is just getting going and I will have a good report in the next week or so as I will be turning my attention to those fish shortly.

 

The walleye activity continues to be very good. Most of the walleyes are now concentrating there efforts on the ample supply of smelt in the lake. This means the humps of the main lake are the area to fish.

We are running spinners behind bottom bouncers tipped with a crawler, along with Salmo #4 hornets. While running the #4 hornets, we are concentrating our efforts on the humps that top out at 10-15 foot of water. We are running 70 foot of line at this depth. The speed during the daylight hours is 2.0 MPH.

Once the daylight is gone for the day, the walleyes are moving up to the tops of the shallow water flats and humps. Here we are running #4 hornets in the blue dace or GMO with 40-45 foot of line again at that 2-2.5 MPH. As we get closer to the July Full moon we will run hornets but also find the biggest bites of the night typically on the Salmo Stings. I see the best action around the full moon on the GMO color combination.

The crappies are finally staging in there typically summer cabbage beds. Here the peak of the bite from now until late August will be that last couple of hours of daylight. A 1/16 oz jig tipped with a 1-2 inch twister tail is all one needs to catch these crappies.

The pike action is very good. Here on can use a variety of techniques, but finding large schools of smelt in the Sherry's arm area will help with the larger concentration of pike. One can vertically jig a large minnow in 30-50 foot of water or pull large stick baits that dive to 20-30 foot of water.

The best fishing on Pokegama has finally arrived and I look forward to the activity over the next couple of months!

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