Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 8/22/08-8/27/08
Group: Schulz
Report: Excellent facilities, lots of room. 2 stoves, 2 fridges, lots of space. Plenty of hot water. Fishing, "Well", thought I would never tire of catching walleyes but exactly that on our trip. Largest pike 36 inches, largest walleye about 6-7 pounds. Had a great time. Broke a fishing pole fishing right from the dock while trying to catch a fish I hooked.
Lake: Dobie
Dates: 8/22/08-8/27/08
Group: The Estimators
Report: Small to medium walleyes, largest 25 inches. Biggest northern 34 inches. Fishing was slow and were not hitting well after the front came through. Good cabin and facilities.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Lake: Wright
Dates: 8/17/08-8/24/08
Group: Godfrey
Report: First time in August for our trip. Great trip. Biggest walleye 26 inches, biggest northern 37 inches. But we did not fish for northern. Fish were very aggressive. Artifical worked as good as live bait. Fished Wright, Kamiskag, Strout, and 7 dam lakes. We will be back...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Lake: Fawcett
Dates: 8/17/08-8/23/08
Group: Larsen
Report: Good cabin and facilities. We had to work harder than other years for the fish with the weather fronts coming through and heavy winds during our trip.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 8/15/08-8/22/08
Group: LSF Group www.LakeStateFishing.com
Report: Caught over 700 fish in our 7 day adventure. They were eager to bite on just about anything, even plastics. Our pilot, Shane, was excellent as was the cabin. The trip was more than advertised. Thanks from the LSF crew!!
Lake: Dobie
Dates: 8/18/08-8/22/08
Group: Bunge
Report: Caught Walleye trolling 8-12 feet, casting jigs to 4 feet. Caught small pike and lots of walleyes during our trip. Weather was nice first day, turned windy rest of the week. Great Trip

Monday, August 18, 2008

Lake: Dobie
Dates: 8/11/08-8/18/08
Group: Thomas
Report: Sunny all week. Walleye good on any bait. Northerns good in grassy points with jerk baits, spinner bait, and crank baits. Largest pike caught, 40 inches with numberous 20-30 inch pike. Walleye avg 17-19 inch everywhere. Had some top water action too.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Lake: Wright
Dates: 8/10/08-8/17/08
Group: Schmitt
Report: Great trip. Stable weather all week. High temp 85 degrees, low of 51. Fished all the lakes. L & M's catch and release policy's are really paying off with number of quality fish during our trip. Big pike of the week, 41 inches. Walleye 26 inches. Been doing fly ins for 20+ years. L & M is the best outfitter in the north. Completely reliable. Top notch equipment in perfect shape. Thanks Shane!
Lake: Fawcett
Dates: 8/13/08-8/17/08
Group: Bates
Report: Walleye fishing was excellent! Caught many 20-25 inch walleyes while fishing for northerns on big crank bait and jerk baits. Found alot of walleye in cabbage weeds. Biggest walleye 25 inches (caught 2 at that size). Biggest northern 33 inches. Also had 2 larger fish up to the boat but was unable to get hooks into them.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 8/10/08-8/15/08
Group: Snortum
Report: Our "couples" trip. Easy to catch fish every day. Generally in the 15-16 inch walleyes-some larger, some smaller. Ate 2 walleye meals per day. Had one meal of northern boil. Walleyes generally between 12-25 feet of water out in the main lake. All equipment tp notch! Well done again L & M!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Lake: Fawcett
Dates: 8/09/08-8/13/08
Group: Harwood
Report: Another great trip with L & M. The cabin and fishing was good. We look forward to next year. Been to Wright last year, Fawcett this year, going to try Dobie next year.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Lake: Dobie
Dates: 8/4/08-8/11/08
Group: Ziegler
Report: Great accomodations, fantastic fishing. Weather was good 60% of the time, and GREAT 30% of the time, hardley any rain all week. This was the best fishing trip Ive taken in 30 years of trips. Walleye in 8 to 10 foot of water on the drop offs. Rocky bottoms produced the most fish. Northerns were in the shallows with weeds and also on the drop offs. Sorry, no fish numbers or fish count to give.....was to busy catching and releasing!!!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Lake: Wright
Dates: 8/3/08-8/10/08
Grou: Kalb
Report: Fishing was good overall. Biggest pike was 40 inches. Largest walleye 26 inches. Best lake was Kaminiskag, while Wright was still good fishing as well. Weather was hot and windy. Nice breeze to keep the bugs away. Had a great trip.
Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 8/7/08-8/10/08
Group: Kull
Report: Great weather and great fishing! Cabin improvements of bathroom, new bedroom, and flooring is much appreciated. Enjoyed watching the gulls hassle the eagles fo the fish entrails. Largest walleye was 23 1/2 inches and largest northern 36 inches. New latch on the minnow canister is good but we will miss the wire latch!!
Lake: Fawcett
Dates: 8/2/08-8/9/08
Group: Meier
Report: Excellent fishing, caught lots o nice avg sized walleyes. Largest walleye 24 inch. Excellent L & M service.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Lake: Shabumeni
Dates: 8/3/08-8/8/08
Group: Strunk
Report: First time fishing in Canada was a wonderful experience. Hank was kind enough to ask us to come along on the trip with him as he's been to Canada numerous times. Great facilities with alot of room. We caught lots of walleye up to 2 pounds. Many in the 14-18 inch class. Caught a few pike but not any big ones. Many points on the lake to fish with no need for a depth finder to find fish.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 8/2/08-8/7/08
Group: Horton
Report: Great cabin and facilities. Good weather and caught lots and lots of fish!!

Monday, August 4, 2008

Lake: Dobie
Dates: 7/28/08-8/4/08
Group: Ryan
Report: Good fishing. Caught walleyes from 5 inches all the way up to 24 1/2 inches. Lots of mosquitoes after dark. Clean cabin. Good boats with easy to crank outboards. 7th year fishing at Dobie, fishing gets better every year and the fish are growing! Cordial hosts as always! Recommend to anyone wanting quality and quantity of great walleye fishery!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Lake: Wright
Dates: 7/29/08-8/3/08
Group: Frentz
Report: Great fishing. The weather was mostly sunny. Kaminskag lake was the best out during this trip. 354 total fish for the 4 of us, alot of 22-23 inch walleyes were caught. The biggest pike was 40 inches caught right next to the cabin. Acouple other pike in the upper 30 inches were also caught.
Lake: Shabumeni
Dates: 7/31/08-8/3/08
Group: Bradley
Report: Good walleye fishing on reefs, jig and minnow. Also shad raps in shad color worked well. Northern, in the weeds, spinners worked the best. Easy for 2 people to catch 100 walleye in a day. Nice chuncky sized walleyes, avg 16-20 inch. All in all, fishing was great!

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Lake: Fawcett
Dates: 7/28/08-8/2/08
Group: Thomas
Report: The usual great trip! Excellent fishing as always! See you next year, thanks
Lake: Otatakan
Dates: 7/26/08-8/2/08
Group: Coltrain
Report: Recent improvements in the cabin are nice, L & M is always making things better. Fishing was good, 1979 fish total for the week. However 2 guys in the group caught over 1/2 of the total!