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If you’re looking for fantastic perch fishing action, Lake of The Woods in Ontario, Canada is the place for you.  Yellow perch are delicious to eat, fun to catch and alive and well in Lake of the Woods.  There are 14,582 islands which have rocky outcroppings and underwater shelves, where perch and walleye thrive. Not only is there great fishing but the lake is very relaxing with beautiful scenery and much wildlife.

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Lake of the Woods borders Minnesota, Ontario and Manitoba. It has approximately 65,000 shoreline miles. It is 90 miles long and 55 miles wide. A great place to get onto Lake of The Woods in Ontario is at Sioux Narrows. This little town has plenty of lodging in resorts, cabins and campgrounds. You can transport your own boat, rent a boat or go out with any number of guide services available. There is also another unique way to fish the lake, which is by houseboat.

Floating Lodges offers several different size house boats to rent for the week. These house boats are modern and are totally self contained, motorized base camps. All you have to do is load them up with your supplies, tow your boats or rental boats and drive them out to one of the numerous designated landing sites on the many islands of the lake. Because the lake is so vast with so many islands, a GPS unit with a map chip of Lake of the Woods is an absolute necessity to find your way out, fishing, and find your way back.

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A great way to find concentrations of perch is bottom bouncing with a crawler harness.  Use a bait casting reel, equipped with a flipping switch, spooled with power pro line and a medium action rod, so you can feel the bottom and the slightest nibble on your line. The bottom is full of rocks and boulders filled with snags, so the better control you have the more rigs you’ll save and the more fish you will catch. Some of my favorite islands to fish are Cliff, Chisholm, Bath, and Gull.

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Work the shorelines starting in 10 to 12 feet of water and progressively move out with each pass to 40 feet. This method will produce lots walleye and some yellow perch. You can mark the perch spots with GPS or with a rock or tree on the shore. Go back to these spots and drift or anchor and send down a jig head. Late June into July crawlers or worms work great. You can also jig or use slip bobbers over reefs and structure which protrude up from 60 feet to 20 or 30 feet deep. Search out these areas and drift or anchor over them. This method will also produce a lot of walleye, however if you’re patient you will find perch. By marking the perch, producing spots with GPS or on your maps and return to them each day you can catch perch in good numbers.  If there is too much wind you can find protection on the leeward sides of thousands of islands.

Good Luck and good fishing

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Author: John Neilio

Looking for a place to catch monster fish?  King Salmon in the 20lb. class are easily accessible in Green Bay waters. These “screamers” as they are commonly called by locals can take out hundreds of feet of line on their initial hit.  You can throw in some incidental brown and rainbow trout for added fun.

Spool your reels with as much line as they can hold. Pros and charter boat captains are going to Power Pro line.  The 30lb test has an equivalent of 8lb line diameter so you can get 1000 feet or more on a typical line counter reel.

Green Bay, surrounded by Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has numerous ports with lots of boat launch facilities for access to this exciting summer fishery.

Mid June into July Green Island, Chambers Island, Washington Island, the Whales Back Shoal and many places in between hold great concentrations of these kings.  Fish can also be found along the deep water shorelines surrounding this body of water.  In late August and September you can also find these fish moving toward and staging near their spawning rivers along the western shore of the bay.

In midsummer look for thermal cline, water temps in the mid to upper 50 degrees are good. If you have a temperature gauge or temperature and trolling speed at the cannon ball it can be a great help. If you don’t have temperature just watch your fish finder. Look for the big hooks or blobs of bait fish with hooks around them. Put your tackle into or just above these concentrations.

There is an endless supply of lures to use for this type of fishing. Typically Pro King, Diamond King, or Moonshine spoons in bright colors with silver backs or diamond reflective patterns are good. E-chip Dodger or Spin Doctor and Howie Fly are also used with many different manufactures in many styles and colors. Trolling speeds are across the board for this type of fishing with GPS speeds of 1.7 to 3 mph with 2 mph being most common.

All methods of deep water trolling can be employed such as downriggers and Dipsey Divers. Dipseys can be used off of wire lines or PowerPro rods. Another method, which is relatively new, is the use of lead core and copper lines to get your lures down. Lead core is color coded 10 yards per color and each color drops your lure about 5 feet down. Three colors will get you about 15 feet deep, five colors about 25 feet down and so on. Copper is typically run in 100, 200 or 300 feet per reel. Both these lines are generally backed with PowerPro and tipped with floral carbon leaders.  One hundred feet of copper drops your lure about 20 feet, 200 about 40 feet and 300 feet of copper will get you down about 60 feet. If you are new to using copper lines, get advice from a dealer or someone who has used it. It is not easy to deal with.

For information on fishing in a particular location, check out the area sport shops, talk to local fishermen, listen to the marine radio or search the internet for local fishing reports. You can find a lot of info on the internet at http://profishingblog.com/fishing-license/

Good Luck and Good Fishing

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