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Lake of the Woods Lake Trout Access

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A group of us ice fishes in the Nestor Falls area every January...mostly crappies. We were thinking of taking one day of our trip and fishing lakers on Lake of the Woods to the north of there. We have snow machines and experience fishing lakers. Is the season open on LOW in mid-January? Where does one access the lake trout portion of the lake? Sioux Narrows?

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First, get a good map of WFB. There is a lot of Laker structure up there and the average size is really nice. With snowmobiles, I would accees Steven's Bay out of Nestor Falls and head East to Turtle Lake. Do not go through the narrows that lead from Sabaskong bay in to Turtle Lake. Just East of the narrows, you will see a trail (tracks) that goes up over land and brings you in to Turle Lake. Cross Turtle Lake heading NW ( again there will be tracks) and you'll get to the Turtle Lake portage. The tracks will lead you just to the right of the actual portage over land. You will find Laker structure starting around Last Point and continuing here and there all the way up WFB. Laker season opens on January 1st, I believe. A group of us go every year. We strated going in early January but, as the likelyhood of extremely cold weather is increased then, we have since moved the trip to the last weekend in January. We travel from the SW up to WFB but it is about the same distance. Make sure to have at least one mappping GPS along, DO NOT GO THROUGH TIGHT NARROWS. DO NOT GO BETWEEN ISLANDS THAT ARE CLOSE TOGETHER. Be safe.

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Good advice from Eastwind. Another option is to trailer 20-25 minutes from Nestor Falls up HWY 71 and unload in Sioux Narrows. YOu can't really get turned around/lost if you do it this way.

Eastwind is right, on narrows, and the opener is indeed Jan. 1.

Good luck!

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I noted on the Google Earth that there are access roads going from the road directly to mid-southern portion of Whitefish Bay...the first one is about 3 miles north of Musky Bay on Crow. I assume those are private accesses...can a person use them for a fee? Most of them don't have buildings...just parking lots. Probably accesses for island lodges? Seems like it would cut a ton of miles off the snowmachine ride.

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