Lake of the Walleyes!

Lake of the Woods is a trip I look forward to every year, with the great people and phenomenal fishing you couldn't ask for much more.  Well, so far this year has yet to disappoint, and the fish are one by one jumping inthe boat.

We left Waconia after my brother's graduation and made the long trek to Warroad where we caught a few hours of shut eye before making the voyage into the great white North.

We arrived on our first spot and within the minute we had our first fish on.  There were a lot of 15-16" fish, but mixed in were some nicer ones.  After the first day, the weather headed South.  We were greeted with rain, rain, and more rain, and not to mention the good ole' LOTW wind.  This did not deter our fishing at all, we spent some of the day chasing bronze backs and a few walleyes for shore lunch.

Well we did our part catching some smallies with a lot of thick footballs that went easily 5+ pounds.  The fishing for shore lunch went well but the actual shore lunch was called because of rain.  We did have a scary moment when we couldn't find one the boats in our flotilla.  We ran up and down our normal route before heading back to the cabin to regroup and start looking again.  All the bad things were going through our head but we made short time finding them on our second rescue attack. 

 They had run out of gas and the strong winds pushed them against the opposite shoreline out of our initial view.  Today is a new day and I can't wait to get on the water once again!

 The water temperature has been colder than further south by us, but it is really warm for the year.  Considering last year the same week the water was just starting to climb out of the 40's and this year it is in the mid 60's.  You never know what you're going to get in the north woods.  From the Stained 'water of Lac de bois....Keep Livin' the Dream!