when fishing up there stay away from silver the water is a bronze from the iron in the ground so copper or brass is a better choice unless your deep for Lakers always had had luck with tiny torpedos and rapalas also Mepps Spnners with Squirrel Tail or a Minnow has always been good for me
Great advice, thanks! Me and my son went with the Boy Scouts and caught the biggest and most fish thanks to your video! Mainly walleye, pike, small mouth bass, and Crappie.
I totally agree I have been there 6 times. I have caught pike on those same green and yellow lures in August and my uncle had caught nice walleye on those same ones you mentioned.
The fire tiger design is kind of funny like that. Initially you would think the fire tiger would be the best but then in lakes which get too much pressure it seems to turn fish off and is not what they want at all, but up in a place where everything is essentially natural and its the first time they've seen it then its exactly what they want. I used to hate the fire tiger color and it became super generic to me but I learned that its only meant in certain places at certain times. I've got a secret little lake down the road from my house that is a clear water spring fed walleye lake that only gets 8 ft. deep. Best lure during the day is a really small fire tiger floating rapala, works wonders from the shoreline and gets all kinds of bass and giant sunfish with teeth.
You should set up affiliated links. Your video seemed credible and I just bought $50 worth of your recommendations. If you’d had affiliated links I would have used them.
Right on, man. I've been going there for 2 decades, and I think you are spot on for July and Aug. I will add, however, that orange is also a GREAT color for spinners.
I like using 8 lb trilene clear mono and then throwing on one of those premade 40 lb flouro leaders when targeting pike. You nailed it on the spinners and leeches for walleye. Good job, you covered it all.
Check MN Fishing Regs (will change year to year) for actual rules, but for our group we'd typically keep any mid-teens walleye or bass, stopping at around 20". Not that you can't eat bigger ones, they just don't taste as good...a 16" walleye is your ticket. If you NEED fish you can keep Northern, but do a few youtubes on cleaning pike, they have weird bones. For that reason I don't typically keep the if there are others to be had. That said, they DO taste great, but I'd try and keep one in the mid 20's or so. You'll waste a little meat in the cleaning but that size should leave you plenty of meat.
It's best to actually determine what the average size fish is in the body of water you're fishing and then keep that size fish. Don't keep the trophy size fish, because by removing the largest fish, you are removing the genetics to grow big from that body of water....meaning if you keep all the bass that are 5+ lbs, eventually there won't be nearly as many bass that are 5+ lbs because you're keeping the 5 lb bass and letting the middle sized bass grow...this is really bad because it leads to a lake with a smaller average size fish. Also, older fish don't taste as good. People tend to keep the big fish and let the middle sized fish go, but that's exactly backwards of what you ought to do.
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Thanks so much! Going to Ely, MN this July for some boundary waters fishing
Hey Tyler, I am headed up there in June 2022 and I was wondering what lures worked for you the best?
when fishing up there stay away from silver the water is a bronze from the iron in the ground so copper or brass is a better choice unless your deep for Lakers always had had luck with tiny torpedos and rapalas also Mepps Spnners with Squirrel Tail or a Minnow has always been good for me
Great advice, thanks! Me and my son went with the Boy Scouts and caught the biggest and most fish thanks to your video! Mainly walleye, pike, small mouth bass, and Crappie.
I totally agree I have been there 6 times. I have caught pike on those same green and yellow lures in August and my uncle had caught nice walleye on those same ones you mentioned.
The fire tiger design is kind of funny like that. Initially you would think the fire tiger would be the best but then in lakes which get too much pressure it seems to turn fish off and is not what they want at all, but up in a place where everything is essentially natural and its the first time they've seen it then its exactly what they want. I used to hate the fire tiger color and it became super generic to me but I learned that its only meant in certain places at certain times. I've got a secret little lake down the road from my house that is a clear water spring fed walleye lake that only gets 8 ft. deep. Best lure during the day is a really small fire tiger floating rapala, works wonders from the shoreline and gets all kinds of bass and giant sunfish with teeth.
Huge fan of fire tiger lures too. Are they just as effective in early spring too?
You should set up affiliated links. Your video seemed credible and I just bought $50 worth of your recommendations. If you’d had affiliated links I would have used them.
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Right on, man. I've been going there for 2 decades, and I think you are spot on for July and Aug. I will add, however, that orange is also a GREAT color for spinners.
I like using 8 lb trilene clear mono and then throwing on one of those premade 40 lb flouro leaders when targeting pike. You nailed it on the spinners and leeches for walleye.
Good job, you covered it all.
I'm actually doing the same thing for scouts so u helped so much
What’s the ideal size of SM bass, pike and walleye for eating? So I know what to keep and what to toss back.
Check MN Fishing Regs (will change year to year) for actual rules, but for our group we'd typically keep any mid-teens walleye or bass, stopping at around 20". Not that you can't eat bigger ones, they just don't taste as good...a 16" walleye is your ticket. If you NEED fish you can keep Northern, but do a few youtubes on cleaning pike, they have weird bones. For that reason I don't typically keep the if there are others to be had. That said, they DO taste great, but I'd try and keep one in the mid 20's or so. You'll waste a little meat in the cleaning but that size should leave you plenty of meat.
It's best to actually determine what the average size fish is in the body of water you're fishing and then keep that size fish. Don't keep the trophy size fish, because by removing the largest fish, you are removing the genetics to grow big from that body of water....meaning if you keep all the bass that are 5+ lbs, eventually there won't be nearly as many bass that are 5+ lbs because you're keeping the 5 lb bass and letting the middle sized bass grow...this is really bad because it leads to a lake with a smaller average size fish. Also, older fish don't taste as good. People tend to keep the big fish and let the middle sized fish go, but that's exactly backwards of what you ought to do.
You aren't supposed to use worms or minnows only leaches and pack the rest out
+Caden Van ooyen worms and minnows are fair game in the BWCA. Quetico on the other hand has a no live bait rule.
+Jimmy Goodman We get our minnows while out there