WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
June 13, 2006

Tournament time has hit just as the walleyes make the first big push to the deep water and the first sign of mayflies arrives. As I can, I will keep everyone in the loop on how I have done in the tournies. I am excited to get back into the competition.

I will be hitting the tournament water starting this weekend and the bite should make for some fun days. The first tournament is on Lake Bemidji, then followed up by Winnie on the 24th and 25th of June.

The fishing action continues to shine this last week, with great numbers coming from the deep structure of Winnie. This week I had the opportunity to fish with Dillon, Brian, and Kelly Maki and the day was perfect. The fish were more than willing and to top the day off, Dillion caught his largest walleye to date which hit the tape at 26 1/8 inches. Here is the photo.

The walleye action seems to be slowly moving to the Lindy rigs tipped with crawlers and leeches, but on the last few outings we have found some active fish on those MAXGAP jigs and shiners. When fishing the rigs, it seems one day they want leeches and the next it might be crawlers. As we head into the mayfly hatch look for the menu to change more often as it seems they may want a change hourly.

The key to deep water fishing is speed and numbers. Keeping a close eye on your boat speed will play a huge role in the numbers that you catch and the other piece is how many fish are in or on the structure that you're fishing. I recommend that you keep moving until the Vexilar is lit up like a Christmas tree. Fishing small schools of fish will end in slow action. Keep moving until you find that large school.

Here are a few pictures from the week:

Kelly and Dillon Maki

Randy Neiwind with a 10 pd. Pokegama Pike

Many of the structures in all area lakes hold fish, but each structure may differ each day with the size of the school and the location of where the fish are at on the structure. Look from the top down on each side and look for the corners or points of the structure to be areas of concentration.

With all the technology available to anglers, finding the structure and deep fish is much easier. Get out there and give it a shot.

See ya on the water.

Sean Colter
member of the NMLOG's
www.seancolter.com