It doesn’t make any difference wheather I take Diane or Monica fishing, I get outfished. Yesterday afternoon Monica and I caught a nice limit in less than an hour. She had four in the pail before I caught one. We were having a nice fish fry after we got home and I told Gerry that I was going to take him next time, maybe I’ll catch more than he could.
Monica with our catch
We are in the midst of a warm spell and making ice is on hold. We are probably lucky to maintain what ice we have.
The other day I stopped at Gerry’s office and asked if he wanted to go fishing. He said something about fishing is not good enough yet for him to go, but suggested that I take Monica. Well, that was ok, because Monica can probably catch more fish than he can. She came over to the house at 3:30 and we were back at the house by 5:00 with our limit of nice walleyes all from 14″-16″. We each caught four with pink and white jigs seemed to do best.
Monica with a nice December walleye
I fished the river for a short time this morning; started at 8:09 and as I put the 4th nice eater in the pail I looked at my watch and it read 8:31. They sure wanted that little white jig tipped with a frozen shiner. But, it’s not always that way. Saturday evening I fished the mouth of the Baudette Bay for a while and only caught one little northern. There were four others fishing close by and all they caught were one or two little northerns. I’m probably wrong but I think there are too many northern pike in and near the Bay for the walleyes to hang around.
This coming January 20th will be a special day in Baudette. The Lake of the Woods high school hockey team will play St. Paul Johnson in a hockey game on the Baudette Bay. Go to http://www.bbhcmn.com for more about the Baudette Bay Hockey Classic.
The winter ice fishing season has started. We have ice and the fish are biting. The report is that there is 7-10 inches of ice on Lake of the Woods and with the below zero temps that we’ve been having (-17 this morning) another 1-2 inches gets added each night. The Rainy River has about 6 inches of good ice with not much snow on top. The mode of transportation is 4-wheelers and snowmobiles; no driving big pickups and SUV’s yet. Fish are being caught in 15-20 feet of water on both the lake and river.
I fished the river this afternoon for about 45 minutes. It was about five degrees above zero, but that’s all the time I needed. I caught five walleyes; kept four nice eaters, released a little one and also lost a nice one at the hole when the line cut on the ice. Nothing was good enough for a picture.
