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  • Official Fishing Report Team - MN

Yes a gd one. Three island gut and lake 418 are some of my favs in that area

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Did you head up this week Icehawk ? How did you do and what did you find for ice thickness ?

 

Thanks Mike

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No got sidetracked and hit another lake with Tom Sawyer and Eyeguy. Maybe Friday see what happens.

 

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Hello Everyone,

 I'm heading to the Pine River/Backus area tonight and I'm going to do some fishing with my girlfriend and her daughter for their first time. I'd really like to put them on some fish. Last time I was up a few weeks back I could only manage one small perch. I would appreciate any info or suggestions on where to try. We will be after crappies/sunfish and walleyes. Thanks in advance for any help. Good luck to all!!

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Welcome to the site outdoorlife :) Some good lakes up there are Pleasant,. Pine mountain, Lindsey, Brockway, Portage. Haven't been up there recently but these are some of my go to lakes when fishing that area good luck in your search! Post a report when you get back.

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It was a great weekend up north as always! We fished a lake south of pine River from about 1:30-6pm. We caught a lot of little perch, a few crappies, and three pike on tip-ups! The best bait was a small jig with a small to medium sized crappie minnow and all the pike came on a single treble hook with a sucker minnow!  

Good luck to all the fellow anglers out there the rest of the ice season!

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If you need any help finding a place to fish up there let me know , a PM would probably work the best. Welcome to the FM Family

Stay safe and fish well

Mike

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I fished Wednesday evening and Thursday this week in the Emily area on two different lakes.  The rain finally stopped Wednesday afternoon and I got out to chase walleyes.  I used a jig and fat head minnow to start in 8-10 feet of water and only got two pike in the first hour.  I moved deeper to 12-15 feet and put on a marabou jig with a minnow and what a difference.  In the next three hours I got eight walleyes from 15-27 inches and approximately 20 pike.  After going through a scoop of minnows I called it quits. 

Thursday I waited for the fog to clear and went to another lake but I used a jig and paddle tail instead of live minnows and worked the weed lines, points and mouths to small bays.  I found 3 walleyes, a couple small mouth and a several large mouth bass.  The hot bite as usual on this lake was the pike.  I don't know how many I caught but at one point I was 8 for 10 cast's.  The action was incredible and I stayed longer than I planned because the fishing was so good and ended up with a little sunburn.  It was a small price to pay for the excellent fishing.  Water temp was 65 degrees on both lakes.

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going to head up to Little Boy/ Wabedo this weekend. I was wondering if you can get a boat through the channel between the 2 lakes. I've never been on these lakes and any info anyone is willing to share would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Yes, you can navigate between the two lakes.  Let us know how you do.  I may stop out there as well this weekend.

 

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Fished A Longville area lake couple nice crappies and some good bass. most crappies in 10-14fow and the bigger ones were caught in 18fow

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Thanks for the info, ill let you know how I did Sunday night when i get home.

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I fished Kego lake this past weekend.  A LOT of crappies to be had out there. You just have to pick through them as size tends to be on the small size.  We caught a few nice bass while fishing for crappies as well.  

I'm thinking of trying East and West Fox again this weekend, and maybe a trip to Rabbit.  I'll try and report back how I did.

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Was up fishing around the outing and fifty lakes area Thursday and Friday.  Was looking for bass, mainly smallmouth.  Found fish on deep rocks.  They ate a jig pretty good all day.

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Was up fishing around this past weekend.  Got into the smallies pretty good, and had some nice weather.

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Did very well on sunfish in 6 ft of water in the area over the weekend. Sunday got 3 man limit of all over 8",  1/3 over 9" and a few 10"s. I lost the biggest sunfish I have ever seen, at the hole. Made the 10's look like chips. It was at least an 11" sunfish. 

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It's been quiet on here for a while.  I have been doing very well on large crappies on West Fox lake this year so far.  10 to 15 inch crappies are fun to see.  Bass fishing has been picking up as well.

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And no reports make forums no good.

Participation is what makes this place great.

 

Do not discourage that!

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The Crappies are still pretty active. I was out on a small lake this morning and C&R'd over 30 nice 10"-13.5" Crappies. Was only using waxies so I didn't have to carry minnows in. The Crappies usually get skittish when the oxygen levels get low from so much snow cover blocking light that plants need to produce oxygen, most were biting light but they were rushing in to bite. I was in 20' and caught most 10'-15' down on small glow jig. Got a couple on jiggin rap when I could have 2 rods down, mostly only had time for 1 rod because of the fast action. No slush on this lake.

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Nice. How much snow and slush was out there?

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There was probably about a foot and a half of snow but there was zero slush on the way out and still no slush after I drilled holes... Which was so nice, because I had to kneel while fishing because I didn't remember a chair. 

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We spent the weekend on a small lake in the Pine River area. A little nostalgia being a place my Dad used to take us when we were kids.  Pretty fitting it being Memorial Day - wish he was still with us.

 

It’s been a quarter century plus since I’ve open water fished it and it hasn’t hardly changed a bit.  Our presentations have though.  We had a banner panfish bite for numbers and picked up a few nice bass and pike.  The crappies didn’t usually top 11 inches but there were plenty of 10-11’s; 28 - 30 inch pike and 18 - 19 inch bass were the tops for those guys.

 

Water temps were 55-57 degrees with lots of weather condition changes.  All the better fish were relating to the weed line; sometimes on top and sometimes on the bottom, but usually within a cast or two of the first time finding them.  Only the pike had spawned which should be expected.

 

Top panfish getter was mini tube jigs without a bobber but small jig heads with worms or minnow under a float worked well too.  A rattle trap worked well for pike and bass Saturday but couldn’t do much after that.  A 360 GT and Shadow Rap took over fish catching duties the rest of the time.  

 

I gotta say, when Shadow Raps first came out I figured them for just another version of my favorite X Rap and didn’t need to get too worked up about em.  I received a couple as a gift though and then watched Al Lindner really explain why the difference was important and how it shined in the early season.  He was right on the money IMO.  Love those things now.  The bass and pike do too but I actually more of my bigger crappies on it than anything.

 

Hope y’all had a great weekend!

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