Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Fishing Forum :: Koma or malberg?
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BlazeOrangeRapala |
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saltdog |
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HighnDry |
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fishtales |
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x2jmorris |
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fishtales |
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Solobob1 |
My personal opinion is you are likely to catch more walleye on Malberg, but Koma has better fish size, nice smallies too! I would concentrate on slip bobbers with leaches, and jigs with leaches over fishing with cranks - but I am devoted jig man so my opinion is biased on the crank fishing. I caught my biggest BWCA smallie on Koma jig fishing about 8 feet of water around boulders with a plastic leach. Good luck!! Bob. |
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mvillasuso |
quote saltdog: "In 2011 we were camped on Malberg for a couple of days targeting walleyes. We got run off the lake by a bear in camp that kept coming back after we had run him off 4 to 5 times. We weren't doing very well on walleyes anyway, so we headed to Koma to finish out our last 3 days. We caught a few walleyes but eventually switched over to fishing for bass and had a great time catching them on leeches, crawlers, and all kinds of crank baits including top water. We just love to catch fish and Koma saved our trip. Others have said it is a good walleye lake, but they were tough to come by on that trip in June. Good luck -- the fish are where you find them." My party fished up through Malberg July 6-15, 2011... We came to the first campsite on the east side of the South arm, expecting beautiful sunsets at a great campsite. We're all still in the canoe, and my brother says: "Hey, there's a note here.. It's dated 'today'. Then he reads aloud: 'A bear came to our campsite last night... Came back today. Will probably be back, so we left. Good luck!' We moved around to the west side of the lake, and found a GLORIOUS beach campsite facing the southwest (buggy, though)... It was pretty warm, and the walleye bite was off. Despite our diligent fishing, only caught one walleye on Malberg, a good number of medium-sized pike, but KILLED the smallmouth, and good size, all day for a couple days. Went up to Fishdance to check out the pictographs on the cliff. Very cool. Excellent pike and bass fishing in the Kawishiwi river along the way (no walleye- I think it was the heat?) but we didn't mind too badly with all the other action. It's a great paddle in that area with fairly easy portages, and some cool bluffs all around. Long way for a just a 3-day trip, IMHO. Koma yielded maybe a half-dozen small-to-medium-sized bass while we were passing through, tossing jigs and cranks. Not a real concerted effort fishing it, though. ;) -There's a GREAT little falls into River Lake that produced a good number of bass and pike from shore. REALLY nice-sized bass. |