Kurt's Island Sport Shop

Not bad for moving into mid-February.  Ice is good, slush nearly nonexistent and snow cover in the 4-5” range in the Lakeland Area.  Easy enough for truck, UTV, ATV, snowmobile and walking traffic!  The further North you go, don’t expect as easy of travel as there is more snow, but still fairly good travel is reported. Fishing picked up mid-week, faltered a little on Friday (plus it was windy) then made a slight improvement before a stall mid-day Saturday (2/7) and then a muc

Finally warmed up (highs in low 20’s) as has the fishing!  Following the freakishly cold weekend prior, temps in the 20’s felt like a summer breeze on Saturday (1/31, with no breeze)!  Participation picked up as did the fishing. Yellow Perch:  Fair-Very Good – Once you can locate those moving bands of Perch in 14-21’ of water, good to go with a variety of fast sinking jigs (Flash Champs, Kastmaster DT, Hali jigs, Northland Tungsten Buck Shot) tipped with wigglers, red spike o

Fishing report!?  Please! With morning temps of 27-33° BELOW ZERO (colder in some lower elevations) not including wind chills to 57 ° below, not many anglers brave (or kooky) enough to go drill holes and “freeze” a line.  Fishing had been relatively good until the big FREEZE arrived.  Actually, the lack of wind on Saturday and Sunday had a few anglers checking things out. Bluegill:  Very Good-Fair – Not usually a good choice for super cold.  Yet a few anglers with permanent s

Winter is arriving, so the party is over for a while.  Sub-zero highs and double sub-zero lows will make almost anyone think twice before heading out on the lakes.  Mid-week doesn’t look so bad, but the weekend forecast is pretty scary (Friday morning (1/23) lows to hit -23° with wind chill (-42°)).  So, let’s look back at the good ol’ days (last week), temps in the 20’s and fish biting!   Walleye:  Very Good-Good – Still some good jigging action on Hyper Rattles, Shiver Minn