Up at the NW Angle, muskie fishing is in its hay day! Forrest Huset, muskie guide, reports that groups are getting 2-3 muskies per day. "They are seeing a lot of fish everyday, throughout the entire day. Crankbaits and spinnerbaits during the day and bucktails and topwaters in the morning and evenings. Most fish have moved to the rock reefs with a few fish still back in the weedy bays."

Our water temperature is at 74 degrees which is the warmest it will get. With the warm, steady weather fishing is great which is why this is my favorite week of the year! Walleye fishing is still going strong. We did have a small bug hatch so some reefs have them, some don't. You have to look around - they are there. 2 out of the 5 reefs we fished this weekend had fish on them. I recommend trolling in the mud as I mentioned last week. 

On the Minnesota side, Four Blocks at 20-30 feet and Little Oak.

On the Ontario side, reefs to the north are still doing good. Little Traverse is loading up with fish. 

We've had some fun shore lunches - Forrest and I joined up for a shore lunch yesterday with our two groups. Our guests enjoyed cliff jumping, the rope swing and a delicious meal of fresh fish!

We are taking reservations into summer 2017, if you are looking for a certain week each year, please call for availability. We've been having some challenges scheduling guests for certain dates as some are filled or getting full for next year already.

Until next week, good fishing!
Dan Schmidt

Up at the NW Angle we have some good news - reef fishing is finally here! Fishing will be easy from here on out. We had some pretty good storms this past week and it's been raining a bit every day so it was a touch and go week weather-wise, but we got through it. We even had 60 mile an hour winds for about 10 minutes and lost 3-4 trees. But, the boats were steady at the dock, our break water worked the way it was designed so life was good that way!

On the Minnesota side, the launches are still out at Four Blocks and are catching fish down there. The reefs there are doing well. Using mainly bottom bouncers and gold spinners.

On the Ontario side, Little Traverse was exceptional - we caught and released 300 fish for the day between 3 boats. The hay day is here! We were all jig fishing using a 3/8 ounce, fluorescent and gold colors tipped with frozen shiners. 24 feet was the magic number. The wind is down today so the fish should start coming back up after the recent wind pushed them back down. Friday was fabulous fishing - we couldn't do anything wrong. Saturday was good until the wind picked up late afternoon through last night. Looking forward to getting out there today.

Big fish for the week - a 49", 50 1/4" AND 52" muskie! A 29 1/4" walleye! 

Until next week, good fishing!
Dan Schmidt

Up at the NW Angle we had another fun filled week. We had Dave Koonce, Joel Nelson and James Holst from In-Depth Outdoors staying with us as well as their families. A great time was had by all! 

We had another bug hatch which slowed fishing down a little bit and a couple days of bad weather. But, fish were still caught! Spinners seemed to work the best - trolling around the edge of the reefs in the mud at about 28-32 feet. James Holst had good luck down rigging at  about 32 feet between the reefs using plugs.

On the Ontario side, Bishop Bay and Skeet Island are still producing.

On the Minnesota side, the launches were around Four Blocks, pulling spinners with crawlers.

Until next week, good fishing!
Dan Schmidt, Sunset Lodge Manager & Guide

Up at the NW Angle we had another great week of fishing! Our guests caught quite a few muskies while fishing for walleyes! They were using rattle traps with beads, a jig and a rattle trap with tubes. We're just getting into July which means steady weather is on it's way and it's time to catch some BIG fish! With the shallow water warming up and losing oxygen you'll find fish in deeper water around reefs. May fly season is pretty much over for the year.

On the Ontario side, we've been heading north up by Bishop Bay and Skeet Island to get away from the bugs. Since it's 64 degrees, rainy and cold here today we're heading back up there to get out of the weather. We'll have to fish the currents and see what we can find. As soon as the weather warms up, we'll be heading to Little Traverse where we'll be fishing deep reefs which is where the majority of our big fish are found this time of year! Tip: If the wind picks up this spot will turn off, you then have to switch to fishing the current. 

On the Minnesota side, we've been have good luck on the points near Oak Island which is where we put our fish houses in the winter.

Repeat guest, Michael Law, was back this week and it was like the animals knew we had a camera crew with us as they were all along the banks practically begging us to take their pictures! We saw a fawn and a bear even stood on it's hind legs and clapped at us! (Pictures coming soon to our blog, Facebook and Twitter pages!)

This is my FAVORITE time of the year to be fishing the NW Angle, we have limited availability but if you are able to make a trip up here you should!

Until next week, good fishing!
Dan Schmidt, Sunset Lodge Manager & Guide