You’re in for a real treat when you book a fishing trip with veteran guide Jeff Sundin.

With a long standing reputation for providing customers with fabulous Minnesota fishing experiences. Sundin's 40 years of experience as a full-time, professional guide has not only earned him the WCCO TV Best Of Minnesota viewer's choce poll, rating him as Minnesota's Best Fishing Guide, but in 2023, also landed him a spot in the Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame.

Covering a huge swath of territory in north central Minnesota, his service area includes hundreds of lakes of every shape and size. Along with moderately sized lakes like Bowstring, Big Sandy, Bemidji and Pokegama, Sundin also provides service on famous walleye fishing destinations like Leech Lake, Winnibigoshish, Cass and Upper Red Lake.

Walleye are the most popular target species for his guests, but Jeff's expertise as a multi-species angler allows him to provide charters for every species that swims in northern Minnesota waters. He's well versed on a variety of techniques and he can take you fishing for Crappie, Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike and Panfish on dozens of small waters as well.

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Jeff's Current Fishing Reports June 24, 2025

"The past week hasn’t been an easy one, stormy weather, heat, calm seas, sunny conditions; all the things that keep guys like me awake at night.

In this line of work, tough conditions are part of the game and meager catches, occasionally, are a foregone conclusion. Even on tough days though, I understand that failing is not an option, and my task is to figure out a way to help my customers catch something. So, on days when odds are stacked against catching fish, it’s on me to be the “cheerleading section” that keeps the crew’s heads in the game and moving toward that goal. Sometimes the job is easy, other times, it can be more complicated.

Long-time readers of these reports recall stories about the powers of positive thinking. Terms I’ve used like “The Snyder Effect”, “Rainbow Fish Meditation” and ‘Willing Fish to Bite” come up in articles periodically. The concept culminated in a presentation that I ..." Read >> More Current Fishing Reports

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