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Grindstone Lake Fishing Reports


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Personally i get on in front of the red barn this early in the year. Ill be getting set up around 6:30 tomorrow morning. ill be in a older black polar sport with a yellow roof somewhere on the north end, good luck.

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we just got off, there looks to be about 8 inches of ice, with 3-4 inches of frozen slush. Got one brown, and 5 smelt, all in about 37ft of water. No lakers for ssminner in 68ft of water from 3-530.... back at it tomorrow morning, in three blue fishtraps.... see ya then. swing on thru, hot grill for waterbrats.

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How much snow was on top of it all? My buddy said there was almost a foot over most of the lake. Anyone going to be fishing Monday? Thanks for the reports guys.

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There is about 8-12 inches of snow on top of it all... it would be a hay-day for a sled, but tough for a 4wheeler without chains... I wish i could stay up for MLK day, but i gots ta workey-work at my J.O.B.............................

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I was out there Friday and caught two browns and had a couple of huge rainbows but they woud only gum my bait and never swalowed the hook. I would have probably moved around more but my brand new auger broke... kind of [PoorWordUsage] me off! I cant wait to get up there again. There was a total of 13" with only 6" being clear and the top 7" was white ice. And there was only 4" maybe 6" at the most that I saw. There was some idiot that went full bore out into the middle of the lake with a full size truck, pretty mucha idiot if you ask me!

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I used crappie minnows as far as the imits do you think you could look in the regs ike everyone else does so you are responsible for your self. Do you reay want to trust someone you dont even know and then go out and they are wrong and you have more then you are supposed too and then Mr. CO shows up! Trust me just ook in the book, you should have one with you when fishing anyways.

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I will OOK in the book. I already have too much stuff with me to carry the regs also. Got to draw the line somewhere. Don't plan on catching my limit anyway.

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laughlaughlaugh Since we need to bring Lawyers with to understand all the rules, who needs or has room for the Regs...
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Yeah, it's a new experimental regulation on grindstone...it's not in the books, so don't look! Trust me, it went into affect this year wink

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Well we were out there until 12 and only caught 1 smelt. Alot of people were fishing right off the shore. I am guessing they were fishing for Browns and Rainbows? The wind picked up and we decided to do some snowmobiling instead.

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I was up there all weekend drove on the lake up to about 60 feet of water full sized truck pretty safe

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i found spots with as little as 4 inches of good clear ice(with about 6-10 inches of cloudy white ice). wont catch me with in a full size truck anytime soon.

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According to the CO, fishing was far better on opening day. Apparently the pressure didn't help fishing after. I can say that the trout seemed hard to find on the electronics, but the two lakers I caught were visible on the graph first. Also got a 3 lb pike and about 8 smelt that were tasty for breakfast. I was pestered by small perch too.

So what's the deal with the shacks right next to shore. Is this where to find the streamers?

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I drove out on sunday with a super cab f-150 to the middle of the lake no problems. I wouldn't recommend it, but I would do it again. If I had a wheeler I would have used it. About 3 inches of snow on top. I measured about 8"-9" of clear ice and about 4-5 inches of white ice.

Caught 1 laker about 16" right away and was distracted by smelt and may have missed my window to catch more lakers... Oh well, next time. The CO said that he only saw 1 more laker since opener.

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fishing from thursday to sunday, sunday was the most productive by far. the shacks close to shore are fishing for streamers. the lakers were very pickey and took some work. move,move,move, was the ticket.

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mwodziak, how deep were you fishing in when you caught the laker? Not looking for your spot just what depth to target them at. I always thought lakers liked it deeper.

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Went out on Sat. morning, got two lakers (both keepers)and 5 smelt. We were in about 74 fow and only had 2 bites down low (up to ten ft above bottom). The one hole where I kept a line about 14 ft under the ice is where I caught fish and had a constant bite. em sure it was mostly smelt--but it was nice to get a couple lakers.

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Binger, sounds like you had a decent outing. I haven't been out much lately, wanted to try the trout but never made it yet. We'll have to get together sometime and hit the ice before too long. Give me a call some time or I will try you.

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sounds good northland, I need to get some minutes for my phone, but we should head out sometime soon...on a non-fishing note, I burned some DBT cds' for ya.

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I was also out on grindstone on sat morning. caught like eight perch and 4 trout. two browns to rainbows. I kept the browns.

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slabchaser how big were your browns? I caught 2 that were 10" and had a coupe rainbows on the camera that ooked like they coud have eaten the browns!

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    • smurfy
      Looks to me like Leech brought his chair home!!😅😆
    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
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