Well this past weekend was our last push for whitefish. A large crack developed last week thursday which made us pull most of our gear closer to shore. We finished our season on Sunday by running a lighter crew. We had a great year of whitefishing, the bite seem pretty consistent throughout the year. The biggest challenge was getting to the fish grounds. The combination of a late freeze and rough ice made it difficult, but we made it happen. We hauled the houses home this week and have been strictly targeting walleyes.

The walleye bite is starting to crank up pretty good. We have been fishing 20-30 feet of water using jigging rapala’s with minnows. Ice seems to be holding alright with this warmer weather. I am thinking we should have ice up until next weekend, all depends on the winds and rain. I am running smaller groups for walleyes to some closer shore spots. We walk out and fish a couple hours. Here are a couple pictures from some of the walleyes we have caught this week.

If your looking for a trophy, now is the time!!!

JJ
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The ice has remained very stable even through the warm weather this weekend. The warm has created a couple wet and slush sets, but most of it remains very normal. We received a little snow sunday night, so some of these wet spots are very slushy.

The fishing this weekend was a little tougher than usual. I attribute that to the weather. There was a very strong high pressure that made the fish very neutral. We still got a couple limits and every one enjoyed catching a few. Most of our fish were deeper 80-100fow using slider rigs with gulp. We have been catching a couple burbot also.

I have a couple spots of open, fir day, saturday and sunday. After that the weather looks warm… so if you want one more chance at a catching some whitefish lets go! During this warm up I will start doing my fully guided walleye trips. There have been a couple walleyes showing up as of late, the bite will only get better as we get into march. We should be able to fish walleyes till late march…. Please let me know if you would like to get on my walleye list and i can contact you if you would like to get out. call or email me jjsguideservice@live.com