We will be returning to the Gunflint area this fall again with 2-3 groups. We have typically come up the second week of September. No luck the last 2-3 years on Walleyes. Can you give me some advice on the best week September or October for Walleyes and the best lake off the Gunflint? Thanks!

I have been fishing for Walleye in that time frame in September for about 5-6 years in a row. Each time I have managed to pull up 1 walleye. So I can only tell you what doesn't work. It's a great time to go up in terms of weather and the absence of skeets and flies, but those Walleye have consistently confounded me. That is why this year we are going up in June. However the smallmouth bite is amazing that time of September, especially big smallmouth. Reef Runners, Shadraps, Wigglewarts...anything that dives deep and gives a strong vibration. All caught on what were supposed to be 'good' walleye structure.

That time of year I would go deeper (25'-45') jump from point to point.
Running water can concentrate fish shallower but that may be a dawn and dusk thing. October would be better for fishing but maybe not the fisherman.

I love that time period! What Amarillo suggested as far as points and going deep, but one step farther...that time of year try to find and concentrate on the transition from hard to soft bottom and fish that edge...that's where they'll be. Around islands where the rock tapers into the mud around 25-30' deep almost always works. We longline minnows on 1/4-3/8 oz. jigs until we find a bunch and then bobber fish or vertical jig.

We have had good success in the fall...however, only on the shallower, tannic lakes. Fourtown, Upper and lower Pauness, Shell in the west, and Caribou, horseshoe in the east. Nuthin' fancy, just jigs and floating Raps(minnow) against windy shores and weeds. One of our better trips was at Shell, windbound, as 30-40-50mph winds kept us off the water for 3 days. We were on the campsite nearest the Pauness portage....water is no more then 4-5-6 feet around it. It was terrible weather, intermittent rain with 2 foot rollers crashing the point...even had a tree crash down in camp! But the walleyes wer in feeding, shallow. Casting was interesting! Making a fire to cook was an adventure, too!