woodland resort

[limited out]

A few buddies and i are heading up to Devils lake for the 1st time this weekend and staying at Woodland resort. Has anyone stayed here or fished out of this area before? We will have a sled and are looking to find lake structure around this area.

I am a Mille Lacs geek and usually jig with a pimple or weasle for the walleyes. Are the jigs similar on Devils Lake?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[crappieDean]

I have been to Devil's 3 straight years and stayed at Woodlands all 3. First of all, we have stayed in all the accommodations from the motel to the large cabin and they are all excellent. The bait shop and the owners take care of you. The only problem is that the fish houses for the resort that were included in the package did not stay on top of the fish all that well and fishing couldv'e been tough. You need to stay mobile, even if you fish out of your pickup. (which you will see alot of the locals doing to stay mobile) Also, I would start at the Towers and work your way around there. Hali's are the ticket there. The perch colored and buy a couple of spare chains because some of those footballs(perch) can take a toll. The reflectant blue with a red head also seemed to be the ticket. Well, even when the fishing was tough, the resort had great food, cold beer, and awesome homemade long island iced teas. (that can cure any bad day of fishing)

Gotta get back there!

[limited out]

Thanks for the info CD. We are bringing a portable and sled so we should be mobile. I'm assuming the bait shop will know the spots you are talking about or guide us in the right direction. Are Hali's similar to a weasle?

[coolhand]

Hey Limited

Me and a couple of guys from work are headed up on Thursday. Maybe we will run into you guys. good luck!!!

[Tracker 87]

You might want to pick up a Lakemaster Map of Devils Lake. It shows good depth and contour, GPS Waypoints and highlights most of the location names. Really helps when the guy at the bait shop starts naming off the hotspots like Bird Island, Concrete Bay, Monkey Ridge and you have a map handy so he can point them out.

[hanson]

That Lakemaster Map of Devil's Lake is unreal!!! I used it side by side with the Pro-Pointers map and found the GPS grids and coordinates didn't jive. I even got in an argument with a buddy of mine over where we were at on the map. He was using the Pro-Pointers map and was very adament about our location. He had a hard time admitting he was wrong.

Anyway- Hali's are made by Nilsmaster. You can find them pretty much anywhere but Eds Bait Shop will have a half a wall full of them if you wait to get up there. They are basically a 1/4" wide flat spoon that is available in a few different lengths, the biggest is about 2" long. There is a little dropper chain & hook that hangs off the bottom.

Here is a photo-

[limited out]

Thanks for all the info guys!

[iowaboy]

The map is a good starting point to get you close. The lake keeps getting bigger and bigger. Two yrs ago a spot 15 feet deep might be 18 feet this yr.

[limited out]

Were heading up tommorrow morning. "Looks like were in for some nasty weather" as CCR would say! If the fish don't bite the wiskey will. We'll have a red jeep and two sleds if anyone runs into us...

[coolhand]

Hey Limited how did you guys do?

We had poor luck. We only caught 5 fish in two days and kept 4. Was not good. Had a fun time.

[limited out]

I am almost emabarrased to say we got skunked! Got caught in one of the worst blizzard's i've been in driving up friday morning and then fished from 7 am to 7 pm in three different sports without a fish on saturday. Resort told us entire lake was dead. We did have fun other than that though.