Well, it was up Twin River Resort on Lake of the Woods last weekend. This is Jason Clusiau with one of the larger fish of the trip. L.O.W. has a generous slot for walleye, with 19.5" being the lower end, compared as low as 17" on some lakes. In addition, the lake has a good sauger population (no slot), with a limit of 8 combined, not more of 4 of which may be walleye. This was the third year in a row that I've stayed and fished with Twin River on the same weekend of March. The ice road was great, but the fishing was a little slow- at least by L.O.W. standards. We started fishing around 9:00 a.m. on Friday and fished full days on both Friday and Saturday. We ended up keeping around 35 or 40 fish all weekend, releasing roughly 15 that were in the slot, and releasing many more that were trying to eat minnows 1/3 if their size. That's not terrible, but that's not what you expect at Lake of the Woods.
Here is my new friend Pat taking the hook out of my largest fish of the weekend, which measured around 25.5". This fish let go of the hook well below the top of the hole. Luckily, after spitting the hook, it decided to give two good shakes of the tail before turning around, pushing it into "death grip" range. Pat was at the ready all weekend and grabbed several fish.
My largest walleye of the weekend- 25.5". Between the six of us, I would say that we averaged about 2 or 3 slot-sized fish per person over the two days that we were here. There was at least one other in the 26" range, but nothing larger than that.
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