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 March 8, 2026

"An important part about being a fishing guide is understanding what your role is in the community. A guides role is to help promote tourism, help keep the tourists happy (putting them on fish,) and teaching how to protect and preserve the resource that we all need to run our businesses, and enjoy recreation in this beautiful area.

This bodes one to ask the question: How do we best promote tourism, keep the fishermen happy so they come back, and protect the resource that supports our way of life? The answer is not always as simple as it would seem. One thing as a guide that I get flack on is posting pictures of the guests who came and “caught their limit.”

As many around the lake have noticed, Lake Vermilion has ..." Read >> More Current Fishing Reports

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