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LOTW winter fishing resort

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so i'm going to take long time fishing buddy with me up north to do some ice on LOTW this winter...where should we go? i'm looking for top of the line cabins (no sleepers), heated transport to fish house, all inclusive. i'm interested in the Baudette area...any ideas?

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Zippel Bay Resort has some very nice looking cabins that I believe are pretty new. I haven't been in them in person (or stayed at the resort) but I used there access/road and went by the cabins. Wherever you go you should book soon as these places tend to fill up fast (especially the weekends).

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I've stayed in the Zippel Bay log cabins. They are pretty nice. I think we had 7 in our cabin and there was plenty of room. They don't use bombers to get to the houses. You drive on plowed roads which is actually kind of nice if you need to head to shore for something quick. You can also load up the back of a pick up with lots of extras like a grill, radio etc.

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Arnesens.. without a doubt. We've been going there for about 10 years now.. no regrets.

Check out the Lake of the Woods Forum further down the list.. lots of great posts in there about different resorts.

One tip, if your schedule allows it, is to book a trip during the weekdays (or a Sunday / Monday) vs the weekends. Resorts have less traffic during the weekdays and the attention you get by the guides and their flexibility to move you around to different houses goes way up when they don't have 200 houses to check on.

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Zippel Bay's log cabins are the best cabins in LOW in my opinion. There shacks are decent and they are usually on fish. The negative aspect of Zippel are the owners. Not a friendly guy at all. Ballards customer service is top of the line. There shacks are fine and the cabins are good enough. Friendly guys and they are on the fish. They run bombers and check on you a few times throughout the day and if you are not catching fish the guys will take your fishing rod and catch one for you wink That is a different story for a different topic! Try going during the week and the service seems to be even greater!

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I've been to Schuster's the last two years. The first year was good. We were on fish. Last year we didn't have much luck and they didn't want to move us. We fished on Mon/Tue so they had open houses but didn't want to move us. Needless to say we will not be going through them this year. We had 8 guys the first year and 12 last year. The cabins are decent and the price wasn't bad, but they didn't want to help us out. We even offered to dig out the house we were in and drill holes when they moved us, but the guy that was checking on us said it wasn't his call and he would have to check to see if he could move us.

I guess somewhere else will get our money this year.

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