The weather still hasn’t stabilized yet, but fishing seems to be a little better if you are willing to move and drill lots of holes. 

The walleye bite has been in my opinion a little off up here this winter.  Definitely not a guarantee like years past.  If you catch them one day in one spot, probably won’t be as good the next day.  Seems like you have to let the spots rest a little.  

Buckshot type baits with minnows and wax worms working for the walleyes on the structure like points, humps, roads, old shoreline. 

As for the perch you get on some biters or you don’t.  It’s that hot and miss right now.  They are moving and moving fast! You literally have to drill a 100 holes in hopes to get on one that will produce.  Plus, you have to be able to fish.  The biters for the most part are not hitting hard and you have to pay close attention. 

If you work hard and grind you will put fish in the bucket.  If you are just looking at relaxing and having an adult beverage or two, your bucket will have lots of empty cans in it by days end.  I think it’s beginning to turn and get a little easier, but that’s just another full moon, cold front, snowstorm, or hurricane away from having to start all over. 

I have a few scattered dates in February available and a few more in March.  Hard to believe we are past the halfway mark of the ice guiding season. But with that, I’m also taking bookings for the river near Bismarck this spring and of course the best lake going right now for open water Lake Sakakawea! Get ahold of me!