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Location: MN | Suppose to head to a lodge at the Angle late next week but have received several pictures from others showing lots of issues with water levels and docks under or barely above water....and more rain chances for this weekend....Also reports of debris floating in the lake that has caused some damage to boats....
Has anyone been up there in the past few days that can confirm or deny any of this? Just trying to determine if it's worth going up or maybe re schedule.... |
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| Water is very high but the fish didn't leave.Debris is a non issue.
As to dockage,call your resort.Safe to assume they have dockage if they haven't told u otherwise. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Been to the Winnipeg River system in high water and resorts have planks running out to the docking system. Then some of the islands that have homes on them the water would be right up to the front door. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | Just returned from the Angle.
Fishing was actually pretty good considering the water temps and high water.
Water temps were in the 65-67 for pretty much the entire week. Late week (July 7, 8) water temps started coming up to the 70-71 range.
Water level was about 4' above normal.
The good was that all the broadleaf cabbage beds had a few feet of water above them and made it easy working jerk baits over the top. Also a lot of the normal shallow saddles that would be chocked off had just the right amount of water to hold fish with submergent vegetation. The bad was many traditional good spots were not holding fish while some were. Made for wasted time fishing all the spots until we dialed in a milk run.
The rock bite was slow due to the cooler water temps but the jerk bait bite was really good and most fish we encountered were eating away from the boat.
Weed growth was good and water clarity was also good.
Current was not ripping early in the week but about the time the water levels apparently crested (mid week) the current areas really picked up. Saying water should start dropping about an inch a week now unless a big rain storm hits.
Fishing was better than in 2014 but as I recall the week we were there in 2014, the spawn was late and the week had very little wind and blistering hot days. This high water had a consistent pattern for us and most of our fish came from broadleaf patches related to current, or weed saddles with about 7-10 fow over them.
Lake didn't look much different than normal other than no sandy bays exposed and some of the mid lake structure was under water.
Bugs were not any more prevalent than past years. Mayfly hatch was in full swing last week.
We ended up with 20 for the week with 50.5, 49 and several other upper 40" fish, and lost (as usual for lotw) several large fish that nipped baits.
Raised about 10-12 fish a day lots of big fish in the system right now!
Bucktail bite was just kicking in as we left and top water bite was actually pretty good.
Ed |
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Location: SE, WI. | Great report Ed….Thanks….
Probably take me 12 days to get 20…
JD |
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