Devils Lake (Overview) - Thursday, June 4, 2009

Woodland Resort/ Mitchell's Guide Service Fishing Report

Call in sick, lie to the wife, or bring her along!  Do what ever it takes to get to Devils Lake and fish with Mitchell's Guide Service right now.   What an incredible week of fishing!  Walleyes, Northern Pike, White Bass take your pick, it's all happining on Devils Lake right now.  Check out pictures from this past week at: http://www.fishdevilslake.net/reports.html  Some of our guides are slip bobbering the shallows and some of our other guides are religiously pitching crank baits or plastics.  Both methods have been extremely successful this past week.  The common denominator for success is shallow water back bays and follow the windy shorelines. 

Slip bobbering with leeches, 6 inches to 1 foot off the bottom in 5 to 8 feet of water along windward shorelines has been the trick for bobber fishing.  As far as casting crank baits, we are still pitching #5 Shad Raps and Countdowns and the No. 5 Salmo Hornets and #8FSalmo Perch.  Some of the hot colors have been bleak, fire tiger, perch, Chrome and blue with orange belly, bleeding hot olive, hot mustard and fire minnow.  Plastics have been working as well especially earilier in the day before the water warms up.   Best swim baits have been Slurpie Swim Shads and Mimic Minnows in perch and silver.  As a general rule, slip bobbers have worked better in morning and pitching has been working better later after the sun warms the water a few degrees.

The water temperatures are on the rise as well.  The main parts of the lake are mostly 52 to 54 degrees with the back bays in that 58 to 60 degree range.  This is why we are spending so much time in the back bays because the water is sometimes as much as 6 degrees warmer. 

Bruce Bonzer of Mitchell's Guide Service guided In-Fisherman Television host Doug Stange as they shot a white bass segment.  They really had a good time.  The white bass have not yet spawned but Bruce tells us they sure are schooled up and feeding heavily.  Sounds like a lot of fun!

If you have ever wanted to fish Devils Lake now is the time to take advantage of this shallow water bite.  You would be challenged to find another lake on the continent that is producing like Devils Lake is right now for both numbers and size.  The Mitchell's Guide Service Team of Guides is ready to show you what it's all about.  Gather up you family, friends, co-workers, who ever you can find, you won't be disappointed.  We would love to have you.

Good luck fishing!

Zippy Dahl

Mitchell's Guide Service: www.fishdevilslake.net   701-662-6560
Woodland Resort: www.woodlandresort.com   701-662-5996