Lake of the Woods Morson Fishing Reports by Tolen's

[Wild Thing]

Come on, somebody must be fishing up there??? Heading up Friday for a couple... anew news?

Gracias.

[Tolens]

Wild thing how was your trip?

From talking to people some are catching fish and others are having a hard time, be it walleyes or crappies . Had a chance for a trip by sled up to White Fish Bay. Its snowed most of the time we were on the lake. There is slush in a lot of spots now. Here's a video from our trip..... Ted needs a TV show I am thinking

Enjoy

[alumatom]

Hi Robert, this is Well Fed Ted's friend Tom. I registered on this site so I can chime in once in a while. It was nice to see you again and I enjoyed fishing lakers with you on Sunday. I had great time especially with the mini snow storm around us. Great video of the laker.

[Eastwind]

Welcome to the forum alumatom!

[alumatom]

Thanks Eastwind !

[Tolens]

Hey guys was out on Saturday, fished walleyes and pike out west. Sled travel was good with some slush spots. Walleyes were slow the pike on tip ups were the thing to catch. There's a tournament this weekend, Big Island is putting it on. Have fun out there

Rob

[Fred_Bear]

Hey guys was out on Saturday, fished walleyes and pike out west. Sled travel was good with some slush spots. Walleyes were slow the pike on tip ups were the thing to catch. There's a tournament this weekend, Big Island is putting it on. Have fun out there

Rob

Thanks for the report Rob, I'll actually be up in Whitefish Bay over the weekend. Have you heard anything in the last week or so about slush and drifts up there?

[Tolens]

I heard its not follow the leader sledding, the snow breaks up quick in places down to the slush.... everyone should break their own trails ..

good luck

Rob

[puddleduck]

Fred_Bear:

Post a snow and lake condition report when you get back would ya? Especially if you go to Whitefish Bay. Thanks

[Fred_Bear]

Thanks again Rob, every bit of info helps.

And I'll try to get a travel report posted sometime next week if I get the time. We'll be fishing WFB Fri, Sat, and Sun.

[puddleduck]

Good luck Bear!

[Tolens]

My son took a group up to get some crappies on the weekend, trail is a little rough. If you don't care about burning more fuel its way nicer to ride beside the trail. They caught a mess of crappies and even a few walleyes in the mix. Bring your extension for your auger just in case.

Cheers

Rob

[Wild Thing]

Three trips in the past 5 weeks. Saturday evening was the best 2 hours of the winter so far; tons of eyes, mostly small but some to 20".... one smallmouth 21"... friends got a 37 pike.... won't say how, when or where until I see more home boys givin' it up here.... back up in 10 days for one last ice trip...

[ducksnbucks]

We are headed up tomorrow afternoon for a weekend of fishing. Did you guys get any snow up there out of this storm the last two days? Thanks!

[FishinFreaks]

Three trips in the past 5 weeks. Saturday evening was the best 2 hours of the winter so far; tons of eyes, mostly small but some to 20".... one smallmouth 21"... friends got a 37 pike.... won't say how, when or where until I see more home boys givin' it up here.... back up in 10 days for one last ice trip...

Thanks for setting a new trend.

[Tolens]

We got about 3 to 4 inches of snow

[Gusser88]

WT - That 21" smally must have been fun through the ice. Our group is heading up Friday coming back Wednesday. I will provide a full report. We plan on targeting trout most the time. Hopefully with the good snow cover and moderate temps we'll be able to get back into some fun lakes.

[ducksnbucks]

We fished 3/4 of the day on Friday and fishing was pretty slow with 3 of us catching about 40 walleyes/saugers. Very inactive fish with major work needed to get most of them to bite. Saturday we fished from about 930am to dark and iced around 100 walleyes/saugers, 2 tullibee, 3 eelpout, and a 31" pike with many missed/lost fish. The fish were much more active and caught better quality fish too with many 16-22" walleyes mixed in.

We fish a reef in 25' on Friday and a different reef in 27' on Saturday. Gold spoons were our best jigging lure by far and it didn't seem to matter the hook/jig color that was under the bobber with a minnow, all seemed to produce.

We shoveled down to the ice and then augered and did not need an extention.

[Guru57]

Ducks and Bucks- thanks for the report. We are headed up early Friday and really looking forward to the trip. Anyone make the trip from Morson to WFB for lakers lately? Wondering about trail conditions and bite?

Thanks!

[Tolens]

I was in WFB Saturday most of the trails were good ... be careful if you a have a sled that is under power ... if you get off the trail in places its a LOT of SLUSH ...

Have a good one

Rob

PS I will post on WFB thread too

[Gusser88]

Fished Saturday to Tuesday. Mostly went after trout in WFB. Had a great trip. Points and seemed to be the ticket. Two days we were able to manage the trifecta catching trout, eyes, and crappies. It was pretty cool. Fished one 30 ft. reef for the eyes and it was productive. Crappies were off a point in about 15-25 feet of water. Conditions were good most of the time but we did manage to get stuck in slush a couple times. Caught my personal best 33" trout and followed it up with a 38" trout a couple hours later. I was pretty excited. Well only about 359 days until we do this again! Looking forward to getting back up there in June to summer walleye fish.

[Tolens]

All 3 (EYES, Slabs, Lakers) is a great trip, Thanks for the update

Rob

[Wild Thing]

Heading up Friday for my 4th trip in the past 6 weeks! woo=hoo! Weather looks more like January, but who cares....

....at this weekend last year no more cars or snowmobiles on the ice, it was already melting! What a difference a year makes! Be safe, ya'all!

[Wild Thing]

Wow! Had a great trip but again shortened because of oncoming storm.

WE fished Saturday and Sunday. Caught some MASSIVE crappies near a secret reef only 4 miles out from the cabin. Not a lot, but nearly all were over 13" We kept 18 for the two of us.... went up on top of the reef and hammered the walleyes from 4 p.m. to 6:30 in 14 feet, secret lure that glows red... many 16-17 inchers, one near 20... On Sunday it was -22 below zero in the a.m.! More like January than March... did warm up nice in the afternoon fishing was slower but my buddy landed more nice crappies and I landed a 27" walleye! My biggest of the winter... caught a ton of tiny saugers, too, 12" and under... left late Sunday afternoon to beat the storm home..

A very great trip, likely my last for this winter.... there is TONS of sow up there and lots of ice, Id say at least another two weeks of ice fishing... right through the end of the month.... snow conditions on the ice were very good not too bumpy and NO SLUSH...

be safe all

[Guru57]

We got back late last night with a story similar the Wild Thing's. Got up later than we had hoped Friday evening but had time to run out and catch a limit of walleyes. Sat we went to Miles for crappies. Didn't catch a ton but most were slabs. Ran back for the evening walleye bite and had non-stop action, landing over 100 for 4 of us. Most were small but we did get 3 over 22 including a 24". Ran up to WFB Sunday morning, it was cold but the wind finally died. Nice run up there, trail was in good shape. First spot had a lot of slush and not fish. Second spot was much more solid and had a great bite. We fished there about 3 hours and landed 5 lakers, lost 2 and I got my personal best, a 38". Was a great day but we had to leave about 2:30 to close up the cabin and get home before the snow hit.