Combo trip - LOTW and Lake X.

[polarsusd81]

So my buddy Rob, his dad, and I all went up to Lake of the Woods this weekend. We met up with one of our other buddies up there and the object of Friday and Saturday was to get some walleye and sauger. Well we did that along with a few bonus tulibee for the smoker. The fishing action on LOTW was hot and heavy Friday afternoon. I started off popping a tulibee within minutes of dropping a chubby darter. A few minutes after that I nailed a decent Sauger with the Darter. I am thinking this is going to be great. I work the chubby a while longer and pop a 16" walleye, good stuff. The fishing was great Friday afternoon. Between Rob and I we easily caught 75 saugers. I got 3 decent walleyes and a few more tulibee as well.

Saturday started off great. Catching saugers as fast as we could drop the lines down. Got another walleye mixed in there and then after we ate lunch, they shut off hard core. Rob and I both lost giants about 1/2 way up the water column. Really bummed about those ones. Around dark we got about 4 more sauger and that was it. Something happened mid day Saturday that shut them off. Most of the fish caught during the weekend came on 4 different presentations. Best producer was a Buckshot spoon in white/orange or pink with a frozen shiner head. Next in line was my Chubby Darters, #3's in chrome/yellow or natural dace. Lots of lookers at bigger darters but no takers. Next in line was a Lindy Rattl'n Flyer Spoon tipped with a frozen shiner head. The other hot item was a glow pink teardrop jig with a lively fathead.

Sunday on the trip home, we decided to give Lake X a try again and we were rewarded with lots of perch. We wanted a few for the pan. We drilled holes over a trench area between a shallow mid lake flat and a long skinny point. It dipped down to about 17 feet and the perch were roaming everywhere. The camera revealed sand with some scattered weeds along with some big boulders. The magic happened when we dropped our jigs. The lake has gin clear water so we were able to draw fish in from great distances just by dropping jigs. They came in and man were they hungry. I was using a Bro Mud Bug in yellow/orange with a black LA Nuggie then switching to a chartreuse Nuggie. Rob caught his fish on a glow red Genz Bug tipped with a waxie. We had a limit on the ice for the two of us in 90 minutes. After we got a few for the bucket we tried to teach Rob's dad and our buddy James how to catch them cause they were having a difficult time. After a little while, they had it down and caught fish as well.

Me with a nice one.

Thorne Sweet Pea with an Okuma Sierra fly reel did the trick for me.

My buddy Rob tagged quite a few nice ones too.

[muc33]

Sounds fun! I head up to LOTW on the 19th for my annual late ice fun!!! Can't wait. What part of LOTW were you on?

[polarsusd81]

We went out of Adrians Road in Baudette. The eyes weren't really making the run yet, you will probably have a better trip than us.

[crothmeier]

Im headin up March 26th for a long weekend chasin big pike, maybe have to slip in some eye fishing as well! NICE FISH!

[Sandmannd]

Nice, looks like a great time.

[PerchJerker]

Sounds like a great trip Tom. And I'm guessing I know Lake X, if it's the same one you hit last year

[The_King48]

How deep of water were you fishing in??

[polarsusd81]

Yes Dave, it was the same as last year. Better fish this year, once again fish an area that hasn't been so much as C.C. Skied across this year. Never another hole out there.

King, on LOTW we were in 27 fow, and on Lake X we were in a saddle but mainly fishing 15-17 fow.

[PerchJerker]

Every time I drive past that lake I am amazed at how big and how empty it is. Maybe it's busier in the summer, I think there's a handful of resorts on the lake. It's one of those lakes I'd love to fish but probably won't actually ever do it, at least not anytime soon.