Fishing Report Lake Winnie, Cutfoot Sioux, Lake Winnibigoshish, Winnibigosh Walleye Reports and Fishing Articles Section

June 11, 2009 Lake Winnie and Cutfoot Sioux are producing plenty of eating size Walleye. During the daytime, fishing is best on breezy days as the fish continue to use the shallow water breaklines and newly emerging weed beds. Cooler than average temperatures are keeping the water clear this season and calm sunny days are forcing folks to fish early morning and late evening for better action. Jig and minnow combinations are still the top choice, but this week there have been a larger number of anglers catching fish on Leeches too.
Crappie fishing has been good in the shallow water of Cutfoot, Little Cutfoot and even Tamarack Bay on Lake Winnie. Fishing with small jigs below a bobber set to a foot or so will produce Crappies. Be sure to look in the heavier patches of bulrush. Our favorite locations have deeper water near the bulrush and gravel or sand mixed on the bottom. When you're looking for Crappie, you may also find schools of Perch using the same patterns.
Bluegills are just beginning to show up in the shallows and with water temps just barely reaching 60 degrees, it will be a week or so before the best action starts up. We found one school of fish in about 9 inches of water on Wednesday, so don't be afraid to search the shorelines.

6/1/09 If the weather cooperates, the fish respond very well. But another week of crummy weather has sometimes forced us to go into the "scrounging mode" to catch our fish. Many of the lakes we've been fishing have produced good catches of Walleye and on the better days fishing has been good to great. When we're faced with heavy wind and cold temperatures, the bite is sometimes unreliable. So there have been a few days where we've had to try and win the game by sheer stubborn enthusiasm.
Water temperatures still haven't topped the 60 degree mark, so most of the fishing is still being done on the shoreline points and shollow drop of areas. Jig and minnow fishing is still the top choice, but we've also started catching some fish on leeches and crawlers as well as artificial baits. Earlier this week we had a great experience using the Berkley Gulp Alive 3 inch minnow and Northland's Slurpie Tubes. Aggressive jigging with a 1/4 ounce long shank jig head mad the larger fish jump hard on both of these baits. The best situation for trying these baits are when you find fish on the shallow flats ( 5 to 10 feet) especially when there are newly forming weeds. The sparse weedgrowth seems to be hold lots of minnows that are attracting the hungry Walleye.

March 7, 2009 Lake Winnie and Cutfoot Sioux may be frozen solid and our lodge closed at the moment. But things around Bowen Lodge are getting ready to change in a hurry. We're only 60 days from the Walleye fishing opener and looking forward to another great fishing season. If the Walleye fishing on Lake Winnie is anything like the 2008 opener, we're in for some great fun again this spring.

Now is a great time to plan a fishing vacation in Northern Minnesota. We have expanded our lake cabin rental discounts on rental for 2009, plus we have some new announcements about fishing tournaments on Lake Winnie and Cutfoot Sioux this summer. Bowen Lodge will be headquarters for the Bob Heig Memorial Couples Classic Fishing Tournament.

This summer we'll be welcoming a new event to Winnibigosh, Cutfoot Sioux and the Deer River Area. The AIM International Walleye Championship™ will showcase the exclusive AIM Catch-Record-Release™ (C-R-R) format. Anglers will measure, photograph and immediately release all walleyes caught. The contestants in the Championship will have the opportunity to “weigh” their seven largest walleyes every day, walleyes that would normally be excluded from an anglers tournament limit because of restrictive “slot limits”. Lake Winnie is teeming with three to four pound walleyes that have been protected for years by slot limits. Plus there are plenty of illusive eight to ten pounders that can tip the scales in the Pro Angler’s favor. This means the AIM™ Champion will be the Pro Angler that catches and records the biggest walleyes regardless of the slot restrictions. The AIM International Walleye Championship™ will showcase Lake Winnie as a prime destination for walleye and multi-species angling.