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 October 2, 2026

"I haven’t been the only one frustrated by the fickle walleyes in Winnie. Most folks have had their own struggles to produce consistent results on the big lake. One thing I learned on Tuesday though is that there are walleyes in there, and when they want to bite, the action can be awesome. There are a lot more walleyes in the lake than we’ve realized, and there are fish from a variety of year classes. Many of them are of better-quality sizes than folks have suspected too.

Another thing I learned, I think, is that we are still observing fish that respond better to summer fishing presentations than they do fall methods. Night crawlers, fished on 1/16-ounce live bait jigs provided 90% of our catch on Tuesday. Yes, there were some fish caught using 1/8-ounce jigs tipped with shiners too, but wiggle worming produced a lot more strikes. The fish struck the worms more aggressively too, making this the best day of walleye fishing I’d experienced in the past couple of months.

Part of the reason, perhaps the main reason why we did so well on Tuesday was because of the ..." Read >> More Current Fishing Reports

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