Arvid’s Fishing Report

With a follow up at the clinic in Bemidji this week, it created a nice opportunity to take the trailer and stay at the Lake Bemidji State Park for a couple of days. We went down on Wednesday and after Terry was done working we took his boat to a little lake north of Bemidji for an evening of bluegill fishing. The weather was great and so was the fishing. We must have caught over fifty bluegills plus a couple of rock bass and a bullhead. All but a half dozen of the bluegills were between eight and ten inches. We did mostly the catch and release thing; keeping a limit for a nice meal. It was like Terry said; “that was the best bluegill fishing I’ve had in many years”. Also, the follow up report at the clinic was great too.

Terry with a nice Bluegill

We did a double more than once

A Nice Bluegill

We have been having great weather lately in northern Minnesota. There has been plenty of sunshine with good temperatures;  don’t need to use the air conditioner. Depending on where and how you’ve been fishing, the fishing has been pretty good. Even the river has fish, but most of them are small. I fished a couple of times last week and caught a lot of small walleye and sauger and one that was 21″, nothing to bring home. The river current has slowed considerably; now a 1/2 oz. jig or sinker will do what was taking 1-1/2 oz. a few weeks ago. The sturgeon are getting active and it’s pretty easy to catch one if you want to.  We are in the season to harvest a sturgeon if a person wants to. The season ends September 30th and a special tag is required to take one. Only those between 45 & 50 inches can be taken. I’ve never taken one, but I might do it one of these day; they are great smoked.

August sunset on the Rainy River