Outfished Again
Jonathan, Allison and granddaughter Rachel were home for the weekend. The weather was nice enough that Jonathan and I fished up river for a little over an hour both Thursday and Friday evenings. Fishing was slow. On Thursday, Jonathan caught a nice walleye and a sauger. Friday he caught a walleye; your’s truly missed a couple. On Tuesday I had caught three walleyes and two sauger and I was hoping for better than we did.
There have been some very nice fish being caught both on the river and the lake. Don Smith caught a 31″, ll lb. 10 oz. walleye on the river early in the week and the Grand Forks paper has a list of several walleyes over 25″ recently caught on the lake.
Jonathan with a 18″ walleye
Sunset in January
Not a bite
I fished the river by Hattie’s Sunday evening for about an hour and not a bite. Fishing has definately slowed on the river. The people that I’ve been talking to have been catching one or maybe none. I understand a few fish are being caught on the lake. There is plenty of ice and with hardly any snow one can go just about any place.
Baudette Bay Hockey Classic
About 1500 hockey fans were treated to a good hockey game with acceptable weather in the first Baudette Bay Hockey Classic. It was part of a Saturday proclaimed “Hockey Day Minnesota” by the Minnesota Wild and the Fox Sports Network. Lake of the Woods upset St. Paul Johnson 5-3. Just a week earlier St. Paul Johnson defeated LOW 8-1 in St. Paul.
The teams warming up for the Baudette Bay Hockey Classic
Boards Are Up
The Boards are up and preparations are being made for the Baudette Bay Hockey Classic game between the Lake of the Woods Bears and St. Paul Johnson Governors on January 20th. Fox Sports North will broadcast the event and the Governor may be in attendance. A rain on Saturday night may have put a premature flood on the rink and it did make for some messy ice conditions. For more information on the game go to www.bbhcmn.com
After a great start to the winter season, fishing has slowed down a bit. Most reports from the river are that one or two fish per person is quite common. There is about 12″ of ice on the river and 18″ on the lake and vehicles are driving most places. I heard of a vehicle going through the ice the other day in the Morris Point area where there can be some areas with thin ice because of current. I talked to a person who put their house out of Zipple Bay this past weekend and all they said was that fishing was slow in that area.
Hockey Boards in place for the Baudette Bay Hockey Classic
Ice Covered Banner & Trees
