{"id":173113,"date":"2016-07-13T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/lake-of-the-woods-fishing-report-71116\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T12:11:31","slug":"lake-of-the-woods-fishing-report-71116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/lake-of-the-woods-fishing-report-71116\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake of the Woods Fishing Report 7\/11\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/walleye.outdoorsfirst.com\/articles\/07.11.2016\/10077\/Lake.of.the.Woods.Fishing.Report\/'>Lake of the Woods Fishing Report 7\/11\/16<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Many resorts are downrigging as pulling crankbaits is on fire right now. Jig fishing and drifting spinners are also both producing lots of fish. Schools of fish in the middle of the lake in 28-32 feet being targeted by jiggers and crankbaiters. Gold and silver have been strong. White baits seem to be hot right now because walleyes are targeting schools of tulibees. A strong bite near pine island has also been reported.<\/p>\n<p>On the Rainy River, few walleyes are being caught near the mouth of the river and into four mile bay. Water clarity has been an issue with all the rain we are getting this year. Jig and minnow remains best option for catching walleyes with some anglers using a bottom bouncer paired with a stick bait. Most anglers fishing the lake. \u00a0Great smallmouth bass bite up and down the river. \u00a0Sturgeon &ldquo;keep&rdquo; season is now open through Sep. 30th. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up at the NW Angle, the bug hatch is over and water temp is around 70 degrees. \u00a0Little Traverse and adjacent rock piles are hot. \u00a0Resorts and guides are finding walleyes jigging and pulling harnesses with gold, pink and orange jigs and blades in 24 to 30 feet of water. \u00a0Garden Island also heating up. \u00a0Pulling crankbaits also working well. On the Canadian side, besides hot walleye action, musky action remains hot for these toothy monsters. \u00a0 Shallow rocks seems best with bucktails and topwater baits. \u00a0Smallie and pike action strong. \u00a0Resorts, guides, and local events at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.LakeoftheWoodsMN.com\">www.LakeoftheWoodsMN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake of the Woods Fishing Report 7\/11\/16 Many resorts are downrigging as pulling crankbaits is on fire right now. Jig fishing and drifting spinners are also both producing lots of fish. Schools of fish in the middle of the lake in 28-32 feet being targeted by jiggers and crankbaiters. Gold and silver have been strong. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,699,44,697],"class_list":["post-173113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lake-of-the-woods","tag-outdoorsfirst","tag-walleye","tag-walleyefirst","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}