Brainerd Fishing Report: November 10, 2026

• Locations: Sand flats, suspended out from well-developed weedlines and rock transitions, suspended out from mainlake points
• Depth: 12-16ft flats, 20-26ft weed/rock edges
• Tactics: Target walleyes by casting a 1/8oz egg sinker above a single hook with a creek chub or light sucker. Lindy Max Gap BMAX jig and ¾ of a nightcrawler slow rolled over weeds or sand still works. Pitching and longline trolling the Smithwick Perfect 10 or Booyah Flashpoint is effective worked over the suspended fish. Pitching a 1/8oz jig with a fathead or rigging/dragging a large sucker minnow has been great for big fish.

• Locations: Deep bays on edges of weedlines or in holes, green cabbage/weed beds adjacent to holes or suspended in deep water near bays
• Depth: 6-15ft 
• Tactics: 1/16oz Lindy Lil Nipper jig under a Thill crappie float-keeping the jig above the depth of the fish (Same tactics for sunfish, but downsize and tip with a wax worm). 1/16oz Lindy B-MAX jig paired with a Mister Twister Sassy Stingum, cast and slow retrieve around schools/weedlines or shallow timber. 

Largemouth Bass

• Locations: Back bays, channels/bays/lily pads/docks, deep weedlines
• Depth: 12-20ft
• Tactics: Hair Jigs, 3/8oz swim jig/soft plastic swimbait, diving suspending jerkbait, 1/8oz split shot wacky rig, sucker minnow under a slip float. Cast and use a lift/fall retrieve, hopping on bottom or swimming along weeds slowly