Fishing Report August 2024

August 30, 2024

We have been fishing this week up on Sand Point and Namakan Lakes along the Canadian border, and the walleye fishing has been outstanding.  We have a few more days before returning to Woman Lake, but I encourage all of you to go fish in Voyageurs National Park if you have not been there yet.  It is truly a special place.  I will load a few photos of our catches in the "Catch Photos" section of this website.  It has been a remarkable month with the good fishing on Woman Lake, the stunning Northern Lights display, the active wildlife around my cabin, and the scenery and fishing at Voyageurs National Park.

August 13, 2024

We had beautiful fishing weather and better walleye fishing today on Woman Lake.  We are still fishing leeches on live bait rigs and all our walleyes came off mid-lake humps or rock structures at depths from 16-22 feet.  You may need to fish a lot of spots each day, but you will find a few active feeders on many locations if you are patient.

Note:    On Sunday night, August 11, we enjoyed another remarkable display of the Northern Lights here on the lake.  I will add a few photos taken from my cabin and boat docks to the "Catch Photos" section of this website.

August 10, 2024

We have had a stretch of much cooler weather, along with rain and wind, which has dropped the surface water temps down to 71 degrees today.  Woman Lake temps topped out around 75 degrees this summer and will now likely continue to gradually drop for the remainder of the season.  Warmer weather is forecast for the coming week.  The walleye bite continues to be challenging, although we are catching some walleyes every day.  It remains an inconsistant bite with the walleyes seeming to change locations and depths regularly.  The walleye bite should begin to improve as the water starts to cool.  The bass bite is still strong and so is the big bluegill bite on the deeper rock piles (10-13 feet deep).  Adult loons are starting to raft up with groups of 8-10 seen hanging out in the main lake basin.  In 3-4 weeks, all the adult loons will head south for the winter, leaving the young yearling loons on their own to eventually find their way to the wintering grounds along the gulf coast a month or two later.  The songbird activity has recently picked up at my cabin birdfeeders, now that this year's hatchings are mostly adult size, and I have had a fox visiting regularly, probably to chase the mice under my feeders.  I will add a few of this week's bird photos to the "Catch Photos" section of this website.