Kurt's Island Sport Shop

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

Great week weather wise for anglers as temps in the upper 20’s to mid-30’s made for comfortable fishing.  Even the slush issue has started to settle down on most lakes having either gotten packed down or snow cover melted down enough to let colder nights freeze it down.   Despite such good conditions, it seems ice fishing traffic has been lighter than expected (I get that Sunday (1/11) was a day of mourning here in Packer Nation).  To be fair, fishing fell off some on Saturda

I hesitated a day to see what the effects of the forecasted snow of Jan 4 th  would do to the lake ice…turns out, the 6-10” forecasted never landed!  Bad for snowmobilers, but good for anglers as this week’s mild temps may help mash down the slush a little, we hope.   Northern Pike:  Very Good – With the largest reported at 38 ½” this week ad lots of good reports on action and size.  River shiners and gold shiners in the large size as well as 5-6” suckers fished in 8-12’ weed