Five brothers form Illinois - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Five brothers form Illinois and they're life long friend, Mike, left this morning after a week of fishing, Having a few brewskies and reminiscing good times from the past. Mike was up last year with his buddies and having the last year due to illness, he wanted to come up again because this might be his last. Although the weather didn't cooperate the best, it was a real treat to see the quality of genuine friendship they had with each other. Mike reported that of all the various places he's been to and fished, this last day here was the best fishing days he's ever had. He caught and released several nice walleye with the fattest a nice 26", his biggest ever; to top it off, he also caught his biggest pike ever, a 21 pounder. It always brings such joy to my heart seeing folks have such a good time. One of my other guests, Denny Burns from Iowa wants to know the date when they are coming back in 2011 so he can make it a point to be here at the same time. My hats off to the Illinois Quill Brothers, you are a dynamite group of men. It's truly an honor to know you........

August 28- Sept 4

August 28- Sept 4

Strong Winds - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/31
Furious winds from the North East, causing some major 3 to 5 foot swells. Over cast all day with water temperature at 66 F.
Chuck went out to lemonade lake for most of the day, and had little success, due to the strong winds.
Mike and his brothers went out to north bay near eagles point, and had about 53 walleye altogether including these 3 beauty's. Hopefully the wind dies down for tomorrow.

Fishing the Sand Flats - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/30
Overcast throughout the day, with threats of thunder. Dead calm until noon light wind afternoon. Water temperature at 66F.
Chuck, went out and worked the weed beds for them pike all up and down the east side of the lake. He “caught three, but landed two” 33”,36” and the “one that got away, must have been at least 50 inches, like the one on your dining hall wall.” He is referring to a 49 ½ “ pike caught by Paul Kuhn last year around this time. He will work the weeds again tomorrow.
I was out with Mike, and his brothers and had success fishing the sand flats, Ferrit bay and jacks hump, We went thru about 14 dozen minnows and about the same in crawlers.
Likely about 3- 400 walleye. biggest was 26 a few 24 and 23. Quite a few nice fat 17 inchers.
Had a pike come and grab a walleye, got some good views as it hit 3 or 4 times beside the boat.











8/29
Scattered thunderstorms up until 3pm. Mild winds from the north with some showers. Water temperature was at 66 F.
Chuck went out for a few hours in the morning, before coming in to wait out the thunderstorm that was going on. After the storm had cleared, he went back out to lemonade lake, with little success. Hopefully things will pick up tomorrow.
Mike and his brothers went out to the sand flats and didn’t have much luck, they caught about 20 walleye between the six of them. Not good at all. Thunderstorms kept the fish low.

PM Showers - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

P.M. showers up until about 3 p.m. Mild winds blowing from the west. Water temperature at 66F.
Chuck from Montana went out for a few hours after arriving at 2pm. He caught a few pike, which he said was "a good start." We'll see how he does tomorrow.
Mike and his brothers from Illinois also arrived today at about 5pm. They went out for about an hour before supper to "test" out the waters. They will "hit em' hard tomorrow"

Wildlife Montage - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Full Moon Shot - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Strong Winds - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/21
Strong winds from the east. Water temperature at 66F with scattered clouds throughout the day.

Hauling in 50 Walleye - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/20
Mild to strong winds from the north east. Clear skies with water temperature at a steady 63 F. Lee, Roy and the fellas from cabin one had an unsuccessful morning. Kevin took them out and showed them a few spots in north bay, where they were just “slamming” them. Lee said that they had the best afternoon thus far. Hauling in about 50 walleye withing a couple hours. They also caught a six pound sucker using a orange jig head and a crawler.

Strong Winds

8/19
Strong winds from the north causing some major white caps. Scattered clouds with water temperature at 66F.
Lee, Roy and the guys from cabin 7 went out to north bay and had little success due to the wind which made it quite difficult to fish. They will give it another shot tomorrow.

Lee and the guys - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/18
Clear skies with some clouds in the afternoon. The sun felt really nice with a cool breeze to go along with it. Water temperature at 65F. Mild winds from the south east.
Lee and the guys from cabin seven arrived today, and went out for about an hour by fish gut island, and had a few.
Tom and the fellas from cabin 1 and 5 went out to big bay and the sand flats. They hauled in about 100 walleye, with a few pike.

Scattered clouds - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/17
Scattered clouds throughout the day up until around 5pm. It was nice to see the sun come up for a brief moment. Mild to strong winds coming from the north with water temperature at 66F. Tom, Kim and the guys from cabin one had a good day hauling in about 120 collectively. They fished mainly out of eagles point and north bay using crawlers and spinner rigs.

Light Showers - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/16
Light showers throughout the day, with some heavy winds from the north causing some major white caps from 2 to 5 feet. Making it difficult to fish comfortably. Most everybody stayed in until the winds died down in the afternoon.
The fellas from cabin one went out to the green narrows near camp for a while, but had little success. Too much of a cold front.

Fishing out of North Bay - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/15
Scattered clouds in the a.m. with clear skies by the afternoon. Water temperature at 66F.
Kim, Tom and the rest of the guys from cabin 1 fished out of north bay and brought in about 120 collectively. Using spinners and bounce baits.

Walleye are hitting at 15 to 20 feet of water - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/14
Scattered clouds throughout the day. Mild winds blowing from the North with water temperature at 65. Walleye are hitting at 15 to 20 feet of water. Northerns are hiding in their usual spots.

1200 Walleye - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/13
Showers throughout the day, with mild winds from the East and water temperature at 65F.
The Anderson group and Reynolds group had a total of about 1200 walleye and a couple dozen pike. They are departing today, see ya next year. The other 12 from their group arrived today together there were 19 in the party. They spent the day drifting from the peninsula right behind camp all across the middle of north bay. They caught fish literally all over the whole bay. The 12 new guys estimated over 2000 fish. I went out with the kids and anchored in 15 feet of water off of the peninsula and we had doubles almost constantly with triples, quads and even had six fish on at one time - there were 7 of us. In an hour we caught well over 150 fish.

Here is something you don't see everyday Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Came across this fellow yesterday on the lake
notice anything unusual??















how about now?





















I'm sure you've heard stories about this type of thing.
No it really doesn't have that much of a story.
Just Dennis taking his boat home.
Rene thought it would be easiest to leave it on the trailer until we get to the other side of the lake then just haul it across and back in the river again.
Turns out he was right and it made good photos to boot.
8/10
Clear skies in the am, mild overcast by the afternoon. Humid day today, temperature at 85 F and water temp at 72F. Great day for a dip out in the lake. Little to no winds with some chop out on the lake.
They Reynolds group had a “wonderful” day. They fished out of big bay, and caught a few big ones, including a 24 and 26” walleye. They were mainly jigging with crawlers and gulp baits. A few pike came up and took swipes at walleye they had hooked.

The Anderson group fished out of North bay and wolf island. Bringing in about 57 walleye and a few pike. Using spinner rigs and occasional jigs.

August 7-14 : Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/9
Clear skies with the temperature at about 77 to 80 F and water temp at about 70F. “Glass Lake” in the am and some in the afternoon up until about 3pm.
The Anderson group had a good day, fishing out of north bay, they hauled in about 150 walleye. Using various jig heads and gulp baits.

The Reynolds group also had a good day, bringing in about 100, the biggest at 23” the also fished out of north bay using jig heads and some spinner baits.

August 1-7 Family get together- Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Many families get together here at Anglers Kingdom
This week it was Debra's side of our family visiting, relaxing and fishing.

Debras mom, dad, sister and brother with their children and spouses.

A good deal of fun was had by all.
And of course a few nice fish were caught.
Left camp at noon for shorelunch caught lunch for 18 in about an hour. Several big eyes with em.
Set up GG GV and Dan behind Wolf Island to get out of the wind and they caught well over a hundred for their efforts. Worms on a jig worked well except for GiGi who needed his live "individually named" minnows in order to catch fish. With the amount of time spent caring for those precious few minnows you would think that each was a family pet??!!?? Took Hank and Joanne with Kristina to Greens narrows and A big pike grabbed Kristinas walleye. We managed to land her and take her picture. After supper I went out with the guys and caught about 70 in an hour. On Sunday we caught about 100 in North Bay.

Here's a few photos.
Will post more asap







































































Here are a few photos from this time last yr ( 2009)

August 1-7: Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

August 6th
Scattered clouds in the a.m. with sunshine in the afternoon. Mild winds from the northwest getting brisk in the afternoon. Water temperature dropped to 66F.
Kevin and family went out to big hump and brought along Mike and his family for shore lunch. They hauled in about 200 fish collectively. Several in the mid twenties. Mike went out later in the afternoon and had “litereally the last fish of the trip” a nice 28” walleye before pulling in to the dock. They used jig heads with crawlers and minnows.
Kevin and the boys caught a further 70 fish after supper.

John and Peter went out toward pike alley and brought in about 50, and a few pike, using spinner rigs and jig heads with gulp alive.

Myron Stevenson and his group had about 100 walleye fishing out on the flats, using crawlers.
Myron was very complimentary on the camp and the lake. He phrased it as " a great lake to fish. If you were a golfer this is the type of lake you would enjoy". Which begs for the note that Red Lake does have a great 18 hole golf course that guests can enjoy perhaps on the day before or after their visit.
Myron went on to say the the lake" has everything, sand, mud or rock flats, both deep or shallow. LOTS of structure."
Myron also complimented our committment to guests enjoyement both on the water and in camp.
"The boats are great, the beds comfortable , and the food more than expected."
Myron had a lot more good stuff to say but most of you already know that.

He had some good photos that we will post asap

Myron also caught a nice 38" Northern.- Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Scattered clouds throughout the day with some strong winds blowing in from the north causing some white caps. Water temperature was at 66 F.

John and Peter went out to big bay and surrounding area, for a total of about 30 with a few pike. They used crawlers mainly.

Myron, Sean, Wade, and Andrew went out with the Walleye wizard to north bay, and had roughly about 70 walleye with the largest at 24". They fished with orange jig heads using minnows. Myron also caught a nice 38" Northern.

Fishing near the green narrows - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/4
Light showers in the a.m. Overcast throughout the day, with occasional sunlight. Winds blowing from the northwest.
The Leonovicz group fished out of north bay and had a rough day bringing in close to 40 the biggest at 23” caught by Jack. They used a variety of gulp baits.

Mike and his family fished near the green narrows and south bay. They had about 37 using crawlers.

Peter and John went to the twin humps and the flats and had about 60, the biggest at 23” using minnows and crawlers, with a few pike as well.

Pike Alley -- Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

8/3
Scattered clouds with light showers throughout the day. Wind blowing in from the northeast with water temperature at 66 F.
Peter and John headed to the east side of the lake near pike alley. They had about 40 the largest at 20”.
The Leonovicz group fished out of big bay and brought in about 40 as well. They used mainly gulp minnows.

Mike and his family went out south bay and had an ok day, bringing in about 60 using crawlers and had a few pike.

Best quote of the season - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

WHEN PETE LEONOVITZ BOOKED THEIR 2ND TRIP FOR 2010 (and 5th total) PETE NOTED
"I TOLD MY DAD A 2ND TRIP TO CANADA IN THE SAME YEAR WAS LIKING ADDING AN EXTRA YEAR TO OUR LIVES"
So true Pete, so true.



8/2
Scattered clouds throughout the day. Slight hail storm that lasted about 20 minutes near the east side of the lake towards big bay. Slight winds from the north. Water temperature at 66 F.

Peter and john from cabin 3 got caught in the storm, but managed to slide in to shore near the Virgin Islands while it passed. They had a slow day, “we caught about 10 walleye in one spot within 10 minutes. We should of stayed.” said Peter, then they mainly fished for pike with no success. Hopefully they have better luck tomorrow.

Mike and his family also had a rather slow day, catching about 20 walleye and a few pike. They fished out of north bay.

The Leonovicz group had a better day today fishing out of the sand flats. They had several pike come up to the surface and take swipes at walleye they had on the line. They brought in about
57. Including this Monster Pike caught by Peter Sr.

Massive walleye over 30 inches - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

Oh, no, no, no
Great day gentle winds from the West
fishing was a bit slow in the morning
fish were biting very light.
by noon they were up and at em.
Most were in 18-20 feet.



Then Dennis Kellner "the Walleye Wizard" pulled out a Massive Walleye over 30 inches.
Dennis caught a Goliath 32 incher in North Bay two years ago but this fish was thicker and heavier.
A truly marvelous trophy Walleye.
Not many people have caught two walleye of this size.




Hayden and I fished the hump in north bay and had quite a few doubles.
that slowed down and we went over by the island in north bay.
I got some good pics and video footage of a Pike eating a walleye.

The Hodne Group: Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

7/30
The Hodne group is departing today.
Ron Hodne said "37 years and this was our best trip yet. Fishing was outstanding as usual, but I think it is getting better every year. Your staff this year is excellent, service and food outstanding and your boats and equipment are a big reason we come here.

Final count for our group which included 9 kids was over 3000 Walleye
The majority of walleye 16-20 inches at least 1000 were 20 -27 inches
caught 800 just on Sunday.
biggest Walleye 28" caught by Beaver Vollstedt
Biggest Northern 40 inches caught by Jared "Snowball" Vollstedt. "
"See you in September for our third trip of 2010".

Beautiful day today, dead calm “glass lake”. Water temperature at 68 F. Slow day for most. Mild winds from the north

Tom Chaladek and his son John, had about 54 with the biggest being a 40 inch pike, using a gold spoon and crawlers.

The Cosgrove group caught about 150 the largest at 24” walleye using crawlers on a spinner rig.

will get final totals for Cosgrove and Chaladek groups
Lots more pics to post as well.

A nice day fishing - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report

It was a personal best biggest Pike ever













It was a beautiful day



















It was a perfect evening.























It was an awesome sunset.

Enjoy some Pictures - Ontario Red Lake Fishing Report