June 8th

Stayed in Andrew Bay today. Weather was perfect with overcast skies and very little wind. Started slow but then the action picked up around 11:45 or so. We started up near Square Island and picked up about 2 dozen smallmouth. We decided to go to shore for a "bathroom break" and some lunch and as the girls were making their "bladders gladder" the guys picked up 4 smallies fishing off of shore. After lunch, we stayed around that area and found a nice shoreline and did very well with about 35 smallies/walleyes casting Kalins grubs to shoreline boulders. Around 2:30 we headed to the north side of Andrew and finished with about 10 or so smallmouth/walleye going with the same program of casting grubs in 4-10 ft of water. Largest smallmouth today was 16.5 inches and largest walleye was 22 inches. Lots of action but no really big fish....yet! Love the weather though. Thunderstorms forecasted for tomorrow....
Brian

Brian,

If you get to pipestone we had several big pike follows on the west banks. Sounds like the fish are still biting, we had similar results last week. Hopefully the big ones come out today.

Matt

They were forecasting storms today but it only rained for about 10 minutes today thankfully. It was overcast and very calm for most of the day until about 3:00 pm, so David and I decided we would just throw topwater baits for bass (or whatever would bite) until the wind picked up. We also decided we would not fish any of our proven fishing spots, that all spots had to be "new spots". So with that being said, we started searching Andrew for "bass-looking" spots. It actually was tougher than I thought but it was fun. I've been coming up here for 15 or so years so finding new spots is a bit of a challenge. We ended up catching about 35 bass with the biggest being 18 inches, throw in a few hammer-handles and a few walleyes. When the wind picked up we went back to our Kalin Grubs and fished until dinner. The predicted 100% chance of storms never materialized but the winds did pick up to 12-15 mph out of the W/NW which made the ride back to camp a bit interesting. All in all a fun day. Young Matt Risor at our dinner table (7th grader) caught a 39 inch pike at the island in the mouth of Pipestone today on his last day of camp. Saw a picture of it and it was a beauty! He was throwing a 5 inch Kalin Grub and using 10 lb. braid and got it in with no troubles. Until tomorrow!!
Brian