Weekly Oak Island Fishing Report
Some of the best walleye fishing has been found in deep rocky areas in 22’-25’ feet of water this week. Dead minnow on a 3/8 oz chartreuse and black jig has worked best. Little Oak Island and areas north around Skeet have been good. The evening bite has been the best. Go charter fishing in Minnesota and catch yours!
Pike & Musky
Pike and musky have been found in the deep weed beds especially in the late afternoon using a cowgirl.
Nice Walleyes! Guided by Captain Eric
Now is a great time of year for walleyes, muskies, smallmouth bass or northern pike fishing near Oak Island Minnesota and the Northwest Angle of Lake of the Woods. The muskies and northern pike have really been hitting on spoons and buck tails, the bass on shad raps and the walleyes are hot on gold spinner or orange and pink 3/8 oz jigs tipped with a minnow.
The best locations for walleyes have been either south of Oak Island in 20’-25’ of water or areas around Tug Channel and Falcon Island around points and in depths between 10’ – 20’. We have recently seen mainly nice good eater size walleyes between 14”-18” caught a few slot fish 19.5”-28” but overall nice size fish for a delicious walleye shore lunch. As for muskie, northerns and smallies…areas on the south side of Oak Island, around Skeet, and the west side of Falcon Island are all good places to try.
Monster Crappie Guide Joe Cooper
Guide Joe Cooper NW Angle Area pictures courtesy of Steve Worrall
The best areas to find some good fishing have been around Johnston Passage, Skeet and Little Oak Island in a few different depths, 10’-12’, 18’-22’ and 29’-33’. Jigging with a 3/8 oz jig tipped with a minnow has been working best for walleyes.
Muskies
Several areas around Falcon Island have been phenomenal for some good muskie fishing. The guides have some awesome spots that have been producing consistently. Double cowgirls and Danny Bait lures have been working the best.
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Fall is just around the corner
Get into the Fall action!
July 26, 2013
Walleyes are biting good on hammered gold and red spinners tipped with a chub just off the reefs near Little Oak, Four Blocks and the west side of Falcon Island in 18’-25’ of water. The muskies continue to be very aggressive in the bays using cow girls and danny baits.
Fall Fishing
It won’t be long and we will be smack dab in the middle of fall. Do you have your reservations in yet?
41.5 inch Muskie Lynne Kinney North Liberty and guide Joe Cooper
Walleye fishing has remained steady in the Angle, good numbers of quality fish are being caught on rock piles that top out in the 22’ to 26’ range. Smallmouth and musky fishing has remained good as well, shallow rock and weed-covered bays have been holding good numbers of both. Perch are slowly showing up on some of the deeper rock structure, they have been hard to come by in good numbers early this summer but are now being caught with some consistency. 
Jig a minnow, leech, or bit of a crawler for walleyes and perch. Try a 3/8 0z for the deeper rock piles and as small as 1/8 0z for the shallower structure and perch. Color usually varies but gold, chartreuse, and orange are good starters. Give a bobby bait style lure a shot for musky fishing, a suick for starters. Plastic worms and spinner baits pitched along shallow rip rap and rock covered shoreline areas for smallmouth.
The reef bite is on its way in the Islands!
The mayflies are hatching out and fish are gorging themselves on bugs and jigs and minnows! It’s the beginning of the deep reef bite, fish are gathering in big numbers on some of the deeper off shore structure. Look for reefs topping out in the mid 20’ level and that extend into deeper water over 30’.
3/8 ounce jig and minnow is the standard go to in the island area, it’s a laid back approach like the island life style. Gold, orange, and chartreuse are good starter colors but not always the choice of the day so changing it up is recommended. Look for deep reefs located in the Little Traverse Bay, on windy days the Skeet Island area is sometimes a better option. Musky and northern action has been good as well, shallow bays are loading up with good weed cover right now. Spoons, spinner baits, buzz baits and plastic swim baits are good options.
The longest days of the year and the islands, perfect!
Its a perfect time of the year to visit the islands, the days are long so you have plenty of time to try and see everything. The fishing is decent too, great multi-specie action right now. Walleyes are moving to rock piles, look for 20′ to 24′ reefs. 3/8 ounce jig and minnow is perfect for these rock piles. Small mouth are found shallow holding around boulders in and around sand, crank baits and plastic worms or swim baits will work well. Toothy critters like musky and northern are being caught as well, look to shallow weed bays to hold fish of both specie but also look at fishing around rock cover near shore as well. Weedless spoons and small bass style spinner baits work well for the weed cover and catch anything that swims in the shallows.
Walleye season off to good start!
6/21/13
Some of the reefs are beginning to load up with fish, but walleyes are still being found up shallow on shore. Reefs topping out at 22′ to 24′ have been most productive. 3/8 ounce jig in your favorite color and a minnow. Pulling spinners along shore lines and points is still producing fish. Musky fishing is now open and many fish are being caught near shallow spawning bays. Look for new weed growth and big boulders to hold fish. Bass are in shallow sandy bays with nice boulders, crank baits and plastic swim baits will work well for this.
The summer begins on Oak Island!
It seems like it took longer than normal but things are in full summer mode on the islands. The nice warm weather has greened up the islands and the water is slowly warming, allowing some of the late spawning fish like musky’s and smallmouth to seize their moment. Walleyes continue to bite well and are beginning to spread out more.
Shallow reefs close to shore have been good, jigging with minnows. The shallow bays are just now getting some weed growth in them and would b good places to find norhterns right now. As the weed beds grow the small baitfish will seek out shelter and the big predators will move in too. Cast weed less spoons and spinner baits thru the weeds and hold on!
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Bob Ibberson Jr. of Denver, NC caught and released this 30″ walleye.
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| 25″ 6 lb. Walleye caught by John Gambrino from Stafford, VA off Oak Island near buoy 2 using a night crawler. |
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| Lee Ibberson. Catch and release 28 ½” |
Memorial weekend livings up the islands!
This was the first good weekend of fishing pressure in the islands and the results have been fantastic! A lot of nice walleyes are being caught in the 2-3 pound range and many that have been bigger. These fish have just spawned and are relating to shallow shoreline structure. Sandy bays have been key as the water will warm faster in the shallow sand covered bottom and all kinds of baitfish spring to life on the weed lines and back sand bays. Some fish are also using small gravel and rubble piles just off of shallow rock located not far from these sandy bays. Pulling spinners and drifting lindy rigs along shallow shorelines has been effective. Fish are scattered along the shore right now and are better found moving and covering water. 8’-14’ has been a good depth to search and don’t rule out using a jig and minnow and just drifting along shorelines slowly.