South Shore Ice Condos - Late Night Walleye Bite?

[mswick]

Hey Everyone,

Normally by this time of year a bunch of groups would be posting about their trip to SSIC but I haven't seen anything yet...

Any groups have any stories or reports from this year? Our group is going up to SSIC on the long weekend as we always do (always have a great time of course and treated extremely well), I'm curious if the walleye bite is later in the evening like the other reports are saying.

Thanks

[Paddy]

We went to SSIC from January 27-29. Great service as always. We had 3 adults and 3 kids (who barely fished). When we arrived Cara-lee informed me that they had worked hard the night before to move the condos a little further out, on structure, and we were the first ones to try out this spot. The fishing was pretty hot Friday afternoon, we caught about 20 walleye and a half dozen or so decent perch around 10" mark. A couple herring as well. Saturday slowed right down, not many marks on the panoptix all day. Seemed to catch the ones that came through. Sunday morning while packing up, constant marks, bigger fish coming through, not very many biters. Huge thanks to Cara-Lee and the crew, highly recommend this outfitter. Can't wait to get back up there with boys this time, in 3 and half more weeks!

To answer your question, I was really surprised reading about that late night bite. For us it was same as usual. Between 4:00 and 6:00pm it was on. After that it slowed and then non-existent. With that said, we did catch a couple strays around 9:00 or 9:30pm.

3 keepers overall. None over. And a 22" pike that rounded out the fish fry nicely.

[mswick]

Thanks for the information Paddy!

That sounds like a good trip with some good action.

I wonder if the huts are out as far as SSIC would like them to be now.

[corey]

We got back from SSIC yesterday. It was stupid cold on Friday when we got there. No fish on Friday. Saturday was a different story. Walleye, perch, pike and a mud puppy. The fish were pretty much split morning (7-10) and evening (4-6). Our hut was in 28 feet of water. The fishfinder was our buddy as the fish were all over the place in the bottom 10 feet of the water column and we caught a lot by bringing our baits right up to the level of the fish.

Surprisingly we did well on Northland Eyeball Jigs tipped with whole minnows hooked through the back. We got fish on various jigging spoons and dropshot minnow rigs. Only a single walleye on the ultra popular dinner bell. I prefer swedish pimples to dinner bells, they have worked up there for a lot longer than dinner bell's have existed.

It was a great trip, rolled our deposit over for next year as always.

[mswick]

Perfect, thanks for all the information. It sounds like the fishing is going well, i'll update you on how our group does after the long weekend.

[hardwater lover]

we just got back on Sunday, service is great as always, fishing was way better than i expected with the big weather change. about 20 walleye in total. 3 in the slot and 1- 26" . The bite was best from 7-10 am and 3-6 pm but still got the odd one in between. Only walleye were caught.

This post has been edited by hardwater lover on Feb 08, 2023 - 09:50 pm

[Longshank]

I missed my annual outing with SSIC this year unfortunately, imo they are the best in every aspect



as for night time fishing, I have caught roughly 20 % of my walleye at night....sometimes it's dead and sometimes it can be on fire


whatever the case, just enjoy your time up there