6/4/15

Hello Sportsfans and welcome to the weekly report here at Ballard’s Resort.

Not a ton of change from last week. The guides are going here, there and everywhere… From Long Point to Garden Island to the Gap…Finding consistency from day to day remains the name of the game…

Mornings tend to be spent jigging the sandbars and then moving to the rock rubbles for an afternoon of drifting spinners.

What are they seeing? When anchored & jigging (sandbars) the trend seems to be a lot of saugers and occasionally some slot fish. When drifting spinners (rock rubbles) they’re finding more keeper walleyes.

With all the rain and chilly overnights, the water temperatures are still holding at 55 degrees, which is colder than the ideal temp. It looks like the 10 day forecast is predicting to be in the 70’s …hopefully that will help warm things up!

Every day is an adventure on Lake of the Woods…

See you soon and don’t forget to make time to…

SET THE HOOK!

5/27/15

Greetings Sportsfans – YEE HAW!!!

What.A.Weekend. …Beautiful weather here on L-O-W and a lot of great fishing memories were made.

We are still traveling North and fishing Knight, Bridges & around Garden Island. We hate to say it, but it’s been a little spotty, it can be good one day and poor the next, unfortunately not too strong in the consistency department.

We’ve done a mix of jigging and pulling spinners but have seen the best luck with a gold 3/8 oz. jig with a frozen shiner on the end.

We’ve been stopping occasionally in Big Traverse and giving it a try, but haven’t seen much action…It’s transition time for the walleyes as the water temps are changing.

The annual crew from Davenport-Tipton-Cedar Rapids area was up this weekend and boy did they have a fantastic trip… Not only did the weather cooperate (70’s and sunny) they found some nice fish too!!

A gentleman from the group said to me, “If you ever have someone say they are too old to do this, they’re wrong! I’m 80 years old and I just caught my fish of a lifetime.” Boy, was he excited!!

And he’s right; there is no age limit to YOUR catch of the lifetime!

Speaking of Fish of a Lifetime…a shout out to Matt on his 30 3/4 inch hog yesterday with Capt. Travis…Way to Go Matt!!

Until next week…

SET THE HOOK!

5/19/15

Hello Sportsfans!

Welcome to the weekly reel here at Ballard’s Resort.  This week one of our very own caught the catch of her life…Meghan (and her husband Toby) from the office gang welcomed a healthy baby boy, Owen Michael on Friday May 15th.  Weighing in at 7lbs 9 oz and 19″ long…he’s a keeper!  Congrats Meghan & Toby!

This week we’ve had below average temps and wait for it…SNOW…yuck, it is May isn’t it?!  With plenty of rainfall these past seven days the river level is starting to rise, which is good news as it’s about a foot below normal.  Temperatures look good for the upcoming Memorial Weekend…highs in the 70’s.

The best luck has been off the Knight Shoals and Bridges Island…anchor up, tip your jig with an emerald shiner and get ready to…

SET THE HOOK!