Fishing Report September 2025

September 8, 2025

The weather is beginning to feel a little bit like Fall on Woman Lake, and the walleye bite appears to have begun to pick up with the cooler lake water temperatures.  We caught 4 very nice 18" to 20" walleyes this morning along with 5 smallmouth bass fishing redtail chubs in 20 feet of water.  Our smallmouth were all released and a reminder to fisherman that the harvest season for smallmouth has closed and is now catch-and-release only.  Surface water temps are currently holding around 64 degrees.  This is a positive improvement from what we saw in much of July and August.  We caught our fish today on both main lake basin structure and shore related points.  I expect the walleye bite to continue to improve throughout the next month whenever we have stable fishable weather.  Some of the adult loons have already departed for their winter habitat along the Gulf Coast, while others are staging to migrate south on the next good wind.  The young of the year hatchlings, who are full size now, will be left in a confused state until they figure out mom and dad are not returning.  Most of the youngsters will then depart in October, some as late as Thanksgiving, and will eventually find the Gulf Coast themselves.  They will all return to Woman Lake next spring soon after the ice goes out.