Labor Day week on Lake Vermilion offered up a mixed bag as the Lake Vermilion water temp has started its downward slide. We got out yesterday and found the water temp at 56 degrees in Big Bay, two degrees lower than the day before. So how did we do? Well Dave caught his limit of walleyes and a few more small ones, his largest a [...]
Lake Vermilion opener reports 2019 - limits for the skillet were caught. Dave, Eric and Joe snuck out mid-morning and brought back 3 limits for lunch. They set up in 20 - 32 fow and used fathead chubs, catching over 40 fish in time for lunch. They didn't get any big ones, but had plenty of action. The wind picked up by mid afternoon, but [...]
September 2018 Late September fishing on Lake Vermilion was interrupted by rain much of the week, and those who made the best of it had mixed results. Colder than normal temperatures would have normally moved fish into their deeper fall spots, but we had reports of fish being caught in the early September depths, 16 - 28 feet, on the edges of structure. [...]
Cold and windy weather made the conditions less than ideal this past week, but it is hard to complain about the weather when you see what the folks on the coast were dealt. While the Pike River dam had stopped running during a drier than normal August, a good rain early this past week got it running again. It was a week of mixed reports, [...]
