Fishing Report

Find out where fish are biting and bait to use in the area fishing report each week. Get Hooked in Detroit Lakes will give you an inside look from fishing guides on which area lakes are best bets for the fish you’re out to catch and the bonus experiences of being out on the water.

This is the area fishing report for Tuesday, July 15, 2025, sponsored by the Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of Commerce. 

Whether you’re fishing for crappies, walleye or bass, it’s a great time of year to catch them all!  Over the past week, we’ve caught walleye just outside weedlines in 12’-15’, and 18’-22’. You can look for them on deep bars extending from shore, and midlake humps. They are biting on spinners tipped with a leech, and jigs and a minnow. A bobber set up tipped with a leech or minnow is also effective on calm days. While crappies can be found deeper, we don’t even bother fishing there because we’re nailing them in the weeds in 8’-14’, over mid-lake structure. Depending on the lake, you may find some big green sunfish in the mix, too. All you need to catch them is a jig and a small plastic. You will find largemouth bass at that same depth as panfish, in addition to finding them near shoreline structure. They are biting on classic bass lures but also on a simple jig tipped with a sucker minnow.

Brady Baxter
Owner and Fishing Guide
Baxstar Fishing LLC
baxstarfishing.com
brady@baxstarfishing.com
701-261-3703