
Lake of the Woods Fishing Report – August 21, 2023
It’s late summer and the two techniques catching the majority of the fish are spinners with crawlers and trolling crankbaits.
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It’s late summer and the two techniques catching the majority of the fish are spinners with crawlers and trolling crankbaits.

Offshore continues to be the best, but we had to make some subtle tweaks to catch our better fish. The weather conditions played a small role but it was productive once small changes were made.

Minnows starting to turn walleyes as leeches become scarce. A look at Minnesota’s fishing report for Aug. 16, 2023.

Drifting spinners with a two hook harness and a crawler continues to be very good. Gold, gold/red, gold/pink continue to be good colors.

Early mornings, late evenings are the times to be on the water. A look at the fishing report from across Minnesota on Aug. 9, 2023.

The dog days of August are upon us and there was some great walleye fishing this past week.

Good numbers of walleyes and sauger were caught this week on the south end. Drifting with spinners and crawlers and trolling crankbaits in 28 to 34 feet has been best in the open basin of

Summer patterns in these parts are drifting with spinners and crawlers and trolling crankbaits.

Some unstable weather this week and some changing patterns. We developed some confident baits, though.
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