Walleyes are scattered all over the lake. Though there are still a few big walleyes that can be found in shallow, most action is coming from the breaks and rock piles outside of the spawning grounds. Look for the Cranberry and Lost Bay area to produce walleyes in 12-22 feet of water and the Blueberry and Shelland Island area in 20-45 feet of water. On the Canadian side look to the Seine, Swell, Redgut, and Cormorant for a majority of aggressive walleye. A jig and a minnow has been effective, but pulling spinners and crawlers or lindy’s and crawlers has started to work real well in the last couple days. The Smallmouth are up in shallow doing their thing. Fishing them with top waters is definitely recommended as they really are exploding on surface lures. Big Pike are lurking up in weed pockets. Fishing them where the wind has been blowing baitfish up into the weed pockets has been working well. Crappies are few and far between. Water temps have stabilized and increased over the last few days and they are now done spawning.
On the Rainy River, the water level has started to decrease. Walleyes are now loaded up in 10-16 feet of water and are really aggressive. Drifting with a jig and a minnow or pitching X-Raps on the shorelines is working really well. There are some real nice smallmouth biting in the shallows on X-Raps and you may just want to tie a leader on as there are also nice Pike patrolling the same areas.
The fishing is great now and will only get better!! Rainy Lake...BIG FISH/Small Crowds! Come up for a Canadian experience, without the hassle of going to Canada!Bill Landmarkwww.rainylakeonestop.com218-286-5700
