Devils Lake (Overview) - Monday, June 27, 2011

Report For Wednesday thru Sunday;

Fishing remains mixed and ever changing. Out east; there has been a lot of fish be caught in the Browns bay, some hit or miss in the Haybale area and Penny bay is starting to heat up. Main bay area, folks are having some luck in the Doc Hagens area, north of the bridge in 6 mile and just south of the six mile boat launch and the south end of Creel bay. Ramp at six mile is in great condition and the fish cleaning station is back up and running. Out West, Howards farm is producing some fish along with a few of the “new” bays created on the south end of the lake. Another hot spot for some has been the north west corner of the lake, north of Minnawalkin/west of old 281/south of 19 if that makes any sense. BE CAREFUL crossing old 281 it is shallow!!!!!! Mauvee coulee has still been slow but shore fisherman are finding some fish towards evening.

Ok, so there’s the spots now how they catchin’em? Once again, mixed bag of tactics. Bottom bouncers with worms and leeches targeting the outside weed lines in about 10 FOW standard gold or silver spinners. Cranks have been decent casting to structure, your standard Devils Lake colors, firetiger, chrome blue, perch, hot steel ect. Slip bobber bite has been kinda slow during the day, lots of little fish, but towards the afternoon it has been starting to heat up. Mimics have been my stable over the last two weeks and yielding good results but expect that to start dying off as the water temps start rising.

Hope this gives you some starting points, fishing in general has been a bit slower than normal for this time of the year and here is why I think that is. Water temps remain low, fished 66 degree water yesterday up in Pelican but the weed growth rate is still very fast. The fish are in the weeds/reeds and with the weed growth they are getting harder to get to and they have no reason (temp/food) to leave from there. With the new rain fall, Saturday night was a doozy, and lower temps for the beginning of this week I don’t see much changing. Towards the end of the week things should start picking back up. We really need to see that water temp get into that 70 range then things will really heat up.

Now a shout out to the set of clients I had out on Saturday. They wanted pictures and big fish, eaters if we ran across them. Their first 4 fished weighed in at 4.7, 5.3, 6.1, and 4.8. There 5^th fish weighed in at a rocking 7.8lbs breaking their personnel best! Congrats guys!! We were fishing in Pelican using 3/8 mimic minnows  in the reed lines that didn’t have a lot of weeds in front of them.

And finally, the big, big, big fish award goes toooooooo…………Two guys on this site. Wont say their names because they can tell their own story but it was just short of 10lb walleye caught on a Salmo Hornet. Congrats guys!!!!

 

Good Luck and Good Fishin'

Eric T