Rainy River

So, uh, Minnesota DNR, uh, this is the new catch and release, uh, state record for, uh, Lake sturgeon in the state of Minnesota.

And, uh, caught a, uh, an 80 inch long and 165 pound rainy river, uh, Lake sturgeon.

So, uh, yeah.

So Northern, Northern, uh, Minnesota right on the border there.

Yeah, that's

cool.

And so the tab I'm sharing now says the comeback of rainy river sturgeon.

So is this a conservation success story then?

But really, now we have the western provinces identifying under daylight, permanent daylight, savings time.

So it gets a bit confusing, specifically I'm the president of NOMA, and NOMA represents Rainy River, Kenora, and Thunder Bay districts.

And yet the time change is now permanently to Daylight Savings Time November 1st around Wraith, Ontario, which is just a bit west of Thunder Bay.

So our counterparts, our communities that we represent, now are on Daylight Savings Time permanently starting November 1st.

Kamden Glade's got musky research updates.

Joe Henry's got a Lake of the Woods update, including what's going on on the Rainy River.

But we have something for you, ladies and gentlemen, right

now.

And I was just on the water last week filming a TV show with John Thielen of Destination Fish.

And, you know, we went out, we went right out.

I ran a charter boat for the show and we went out of the White House Gap, which is where the rainy river goes through Four Mile Bay.

It goes in between Sable Island on the Canadian side and Pine Island on the U.S. side.

So we've got Sam Sohol coming up.

uh we also have uh eric cadet in just a second to talk about winterization for boats some tips for you and then joe henry has a lake of the woods fishing report which by the way the migration highway is heating up at the rainy river out in front of river bend resort let's take a live look and look at that a lot of the leaves are falling so Yeah, I don't know why that mallard was flying through the water column there, but those Canada geese are swimming underwater.

Oh, no. Don't question it.

I told AI to have a bufflehead swimming down to the bottom and diving down to the bottom.

I don't want to do it.

Well, we had to stop up at Raysport Marine in Alexandria on our way up.

We were filming a Prairie Sportsman episode up at Camp Ripley, and we stopped and saw Matt Johnson up there, who joins us now here on the show, because not only do you work at Rays, but you're also our personal delivery guy, because... your parents brought back a bunch of stuff from the aglow conference for us and then they you were up at uh river bend resort up on the rainy river up there grabbed some stuff brought it down to race and we met you there and got to see eric and till and the crew tanner and everyone there at alexandria and i could tell uh that you guys are getting ready for winter in storage because there was a bunch of boats that were wrapped up and people were putting them away for the season and i bet that starts probably around labor day weekend or so

Yeah, Labor Day.

It had to be.

So they used, they used the Rainy River-

Okay

... as that border, right? So when they got to Lake of the Woods, somebody's surveying tool was off, and they ended up-

Now you're, you've crossed the border from Canada into the US.

You're in, you're in Minnes- in Minnesota, and you do the nine-mile portage, um, Grand Portage, up and back and- Another nine miles to back, back up to get your gear, and then you travel along the international boundary waters between the United States or Minnesota and Ontario until you get to the Rainy River, and you're back in Ontario, and, uh, up the through Lake of the Woods River into Lake Winnipeg.

Uh, now you're in Manitoba, and from Manitoba, we went as far as The Pas on the Saskatchewan River, up the Saskatchewan River into Saskatchewan, then up the Sturgeon Weir River, um, into the Churchill River, into Reindeer, the Reindeer River into Reindeer Lake.

And then across, we crossed from Reindeer Lake into Wollaston, and from Wollaston down the Fond du Lac River into Lake Athabasca.

Let's see what's going on.

Should we go up to the Rainy River and check in on the migration highway? There's some sturgeon.

Oh, look at the leaves are beautiful up there this time of year.

Oh, keep it clean.

You know, we've had some warmer temps, but we've also had these cool nights.

And, you know, water temps are down right now to mid-50s.

And, you know, we got some fish moving into the Rainy River.

We got a lot of fish that are stationed just off that south shore.