On her recent trip, guest Chengyin Liu took many photos of the Lake of the Woods area. She then painted some as watercolors and shared them with us. This one was taken in Stevens Bay.

Guide report: walleyes are being found in 6 - 8 feet of water along weedy shorelines; windy rigs are working well. Northern pike are in 4 - 8 feet in cabbage weeds; white spinnerbaits are effective., Muskies are in pencil reeds and rock rabble; dark bucktails are raising a lot of fish.

If you are still considering a trip this year, here are all the dates currently available through to the end of the season; contact us if any are of interest to you:

• August 19th - 24th
• August 27th - September 10th
• September 15th - 19th
• September 21st - 26th

Some of the nice fish caught this week are:

• Brian Van Cleave (Winnetka, IL), a 46 inch muskie
• John Van Cleave (Cincinnati, OH), a 48 inch muskie and 34 inch northern
• Bob Weaver (Fort Myers, FL), a 39 inch muskie and 32 inch northern
• 14 year old Gavin Estabrooks, a 30 inch northern
• Roger Cross (West Bend, WI), a 21 inch smallmouth
• Doug Lindner (Warroad, MN), a 26 inch walleye
• Chip DeAngelo (Dekalb, IL), 45 and 40 inch muskies
• Bart Weaver (Fort Myers, FL), two 38 inch, 37 and 35 inch northerns
• Lowell Weaver (Fort Myers Beach, FL), 41, 37, 36, 34 and 32 inch northerns and a 42 inch muskie