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 April 22, 2025

"The ice line creeps further north every day, albeit slower than some folks would like. I don’t mind waiting because there is good scientific evidence that strong walleye year classes tend to be produced more often during seasons with a later ice out. The reason, primarily, has to do with survival rates of the newly hatched fry.

When there’s an early ice-out, walleye spawning occurs early. Sometimes, walleye fry are hatched before water temperatures warm enough to provide strong algae production. In the cold water, newly hatched fry has less food to eat, and depend on nourishment from a “yolk sac”. They use their stored reserves quickly though, within a few days, and they depend on algae blooms to provide nutrition.

Unless plankton, (algae) production in shallow water increases fast, they can suffer from ..." Read >> More Current Fishing Reports

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