Believe The Weather Forecast? Not Anymore!! Wind Forecasts So Off I Think They Just Spin A Wheel! The weather forecast I want to see, just to inject some sense of accuracy and ability to predict what will actually come to pass: Mostly Sunny with a 98% Chance of Mostly Cloudy, Winds from the SouthNorth in the…
Lotsa Wind Lately!! As early Canada season opens up this week and the water turns over, the dog-day Summer temperatures soar, and harvest begins; we travel ever deeper and find more and more fish stacked up on the deeper ledges. We are concentrating on those cuts, the deep water breaks, beginning the days on the top edge and normally…
BLUE!!!! These two had us leaving the water by 9 this morning. I am curious how many 14-16 inchers we would have caught if we didn’t have other pressing tasks at hand. Every sheltered spot that we checked today was fishy. 23-31 feet of water with a concentration on the edge of the ledges and the break over deeper water.…
Less Wind/More Fish!! Investigating the top and bottom of deep breaks, you know, those long stretches along the shorelines where the contour lines are REAL close together? Some call them cuts, I prefer cuts but the old school, ‘in the know’, authority types will insist on calling them breaks so we will go with that. Found…
Hiding Out From The Wind AND Catching Fish!! When clients from afar come to Devils Lake, they want to fish. In reality, I want to fish, all the time actually! So when the wind comes up, no matter which direction it is out of, we sometimes have to get creative. One thing I love about Devils Lake is the…
