Boreal Bay - Fishing Report - 5/20
We enjpyed a few warm, summer like days just ahead of the Walleye opener and cold front that came through Saturday afternoon/Sunday AM... has Lake of the Woods Stevens Bay area pushing mid 60's and Kakagi near 50 degree surface temps. Fishing has been pretty good.
Stevens Bay weeds approaching the surface.
Stevens Bay Crappie bite has been good going into the Walleye opener with lots of those black slab male crappies being caught... just a few females, so the bite should get better. About 1/2 the groups after crappies are nearing their limits. The cold front did slow crappie bite today... so looking good for those coming this weekend.
Walleye bite has been good around Stevens Bay - nothing huge yet, but everyone finding plenty of the good eating size and a few near 4-5 pounds. Jig and minnow working well and others are catching occasional walleye when after Crappie and Northern Pike.
Jumbo Perch have been an easy catch on Stevens Bay.
Northern Pike bite has been hot! Stevens Bay area has been very productive with smaller ones and almost every day a 38"-42" Northern Pike has been caught.
Casting, trolling, jigging and even bobber fishing will get some Northern Pike action.
Cedartree is very low, not much water going in from Kakagi - if your wanting to go in soon, better plan on carrying the boats/motors through the shallow rapids. Only one group in so far and Northern Pike were biting -- think the Bass and Walleye will get found soon enough.
Lake Trout - catching plenty of the nice eating sized 3-8 pounds Lake Trout. Jigging, bank fishing and trolling are all producing - only a few boats spending time fishing for Lake Trout this week... previous weekend everyone was after Lake Trout, not sure why but all the fishing Girls caught Lake Trout! Most trout are up shallow in the water column - lots of fish in the 30-50' waters and also nabbing them chasing bait near the surface over the 60-90' waters. When jigging, I'm seeing more fish chase my lures down from the top than coming up from bottom... these are much tougher situations to get hooks in and see on the depth finder because the cone is so much smaller at top. Trolling about 7-15' down and getting the lure in the tail end of the prop swirrel (50-70') seems to be working. :cool:
Expecting some the guests will be trying different spots of species more often later this week as most have limits of what they wanted to start fishing.
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Lily update - ACL surgery was success on May 14 and biggest problem will be holding her back from doing what she wants over the next several weeks. The Vet did advise keeping her contained and limited until early July - biggest concern is possible damage to her other ACL.
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Project updates -
- Cabin 10 is looking nice with new shingles and extended the roof out a little more to help keep the deck dry. (hope to clean-up the shingles late this week - dumpster is too full at the moment)
- Showerhouse - new electrical wiring almost done - it had very old wiring and we have some coming projects in the next couple years which will require more electric service in the building.
- A few more tree's are gone and trimmed a bit.
- Lodge porch area is complete except for some staining and TV connect. Outside steps and ramp to lodge are done (concrete work and railings finished this past week). Upstairs carpet is planned for Wednesday/Thursday of this coming week and hoping to have the picture and fish/game mounts on the walls some time the following week.
Hoping to have several more project items done over the next 3 weeks.
Regards,
