Guide John Adams loves it and so do his clients. “Devils Lake is a mega-fishery,” Adams said. “People soon learn it’s a multi-species system and the season never closes. My guests are surprised how differently we fish, and they take these lessons home with them.”
John Adams of Big John's Guide Service jigs for perch from the cab of his truck in January 2014 on Devils Lake. (Photo/ Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald)
Sprengel is a renowned walleye tournament angler with victories and top finishes in many National Walleye Tour events. He won the Cabela’s World Walleye Championship on Devils Lake a few years back. Last year, he won the Sturgeon Bay (Wisconsin) Bass Tournament. He’s won several walleye Team and Angler of the Year titles. Adams has been guiding for a decade on the lake. He considered retiring, but said, “So many clients want me to keep going, so I do. It’s what I love, fishing and meeting new friends daily.”
Sprengel is a hard worker on open water and ice. In typical Sprengel fashion, he put it simply, “The Devils Lake fish make you fish … harder.”
Late January found Sprengel on ice six days a week with the walleyes biting extremely well, a fact also relayed by Adams.
On dark, cloudy days, Sprengel suggests concentrating on walleyes. Fish early and late on bright days. With sunshine, spend more time on perch.
Sprengel had several opinions about perch, which have been very cooperative at times this winter.
“Perch don’t seem to be as concentrated as normal, at least not yet,” he said.
The size is there, as represented by his personal best, a 14-plus-inch perch that tipped the scales at 1.86 pounds recently. Devils Lake perch grow well eating freshwater shrimp and blood worms.
“You basically put what you’ve learned in the recesses of the memory banks and approach each day based on the weather,” Sprengel said. “The fish are here one day; gone the next. Tactics, colors, areas, structure, depths – it’s a diverse system.”
That diversity, Adams said, is why he has so many spots, and he keeps seeking even better new areas to spread his clients.
“Some are in Eskimo shelters staring at their Vexilars while some prefer the permanent house and others are hole-hopping,” he said. “Options and opportunities are endless.”
“How many places have you fished where 3 to 4 feet of perch are stacked up waiting to attack a jig?” Sprengel asked. “With a shot at the biggest fish of their lives, clients flock to the lake.”
Perch and walleyes rank as the No. 1 and No. 2 reasons Devils Lake is so popular, Adams said.
“Don’t slight northern pike,” he said. “When filleted and deboned, they taste just like walleye.”
Clients really have fun chasing flags, Adams said. A group of four anglers with 16 tip-ups in the water (North Dakota allows anglers to have four lines in winter) will be busy.
“When families book trips, I know it will involve fun with these big toothy fighters,” he said. “If they do it one day, they want to go again the next day.”
Adams says he fishes where the walleyes and perch lead him. That could be old shorelines, from when the lake increased from 40,000 acres in the early 1990s, to today, when it is at least four times as large. Flooded buildings, roadbeds and rock piles all are in play.
During a recent call from the lake, Adams was fishing an underwater ridge that previously (in low water) separated two small lakes. The ridge now is a fish highway, and Adams was having a grand time fishing in 5 feet of water jigging a Northland Buckshot rattle spoon.
“My clients are thrilled with all the 14- to 21-inch walleyes they’re catching,” he said. For walleyes, it’s Buck Shot and Forage Minnow spoons and Jigging Raps. Perch require PK Lures tungsten jigs and NW Metro Tackle gold jigs.
More info: devilslakend.com or (701) 662-4903; Korey Sprengel at Perch Patrol, (701) 351-3474, perchpatrol.com; John Adams at Big John’s Guide Service, (701) 381-2599, fishingguidedevilslake.com.
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