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Hillmans hwy/ crappie

Frank D

By Frank D
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Red Lake crappie boom is back! In depth outdoors had a show on upper Red where they landed a bunch of nice slabs. The bite is even better in the spring.

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welcome to the site. I think the jury is out on the boom being back !!! LOL be patient grasshopper and remember to CPR. smile

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Red Lake crappie boom is back! In depth outdoors had a show on upper Red where they landed a bunch of nice slabs. The bite is even better in the spring.

sleep I and few others have been catching crappies out since people (most) stopped going after them. A video doesn't make it a crappie boom.

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Fishing has been great all year ended the walleye season on a good note caught and released several last nite might put this one on the wall small shiners worked well found a old blue glow phelps jig worked good full-45881-52669-image.jpg

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I would guess that would be a no Frank? Buddy plans on keeping his access open and a few rentals out there as his houses have actually done well the last few weeks catching the elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappie. I also will keep the heat on my house's just like the hotel commercial "We will leave the lights on for you" only here at cookies on upper red lake will leave the heat on for you and the lights.

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2/19/15 started fishing at noon. By 1:30 pm had 5 walleyes all b/w 15-16". Catch and release from there on out. 6 pm crappie bite started and when non stop 1 after another all 12"-15.5" till 10 pm. All weekend went this way. Walleyes pretty much all the time and crappies starting at 6pm. 4 guys all got our limits of walleyes and crappies with in 2 hours. Cleaning 40 crappies that size its lots of work, but well worth it. Friday and Saturday all the same. I had no problem catching and releasing as most crappies had eggs in them. I'd rather catch 2 fish limit then go to a lake and not catch a single fish all weekend. Plenty of fish for us to eat up there and take home. Buddy does a great job and had to work to keep up with the cold temps and propane heaters not liking the weather.

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I'm thinking about planning a trip up in a few weeks to target pannies. Is hillmans the only road open in march?

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As far as I know Buddy Hillmen is the only one that plans on maintaining a road. As of right now the winds and snow are blowing out of the south and we will be re opening 10 miles of road tomorrow morning. Please come and support us as it will be a very long day tomorrow. The elusive yet still catchable upper red lake crappie are out there just need some fishermen to help find them as we will be working on the Hillmen's highway tomorrow leading to the crappie highway. Not to be confused with hillmens highway which you could land a 747 on. Lets go find them raw raw

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Will he still maintain the road after the ice house deadline? I won't be going up for my lake of the woods trip until March 21, but stopping at URL on the way up is looking more promising with each passing day smile

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With no fishermen coming to generate some income at some point he will have to quit plowing. As of now we both have a few houses out there for at least the next 12 days. Mother nature could change things but as of now it looks good weather wise. The road is wide open to the mother load if you can find them.

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Nice sunrise good fishing not much sleep.any time cookie although the Glacier is always on the move.Buddy plowed this spot

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We will be thursday to search for the motherload. With 10 guys and 3 augers we will certainly put forth the effort. Im sure we will have no problem finding some crappies. And big ones too. Just hafta fish next to frank is all! With crosscountry travel available we will be fishing on cookies secret spot. An area not fished for years and has always produced crappies. Cant wait

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Looks good! we came up yesterday afternoon and are fishing untill Sunday or Monday, haven't decided yet. No crappies yet but hopefully tonight is the night. any time they seem to bite best for you? Last night was the first night in a while we didn't catch atleast a couple.

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Hole hopping and spread out. Fish outside the house as much as possible. Im assuming you are out of hillmans. The magic hour ofsundown has been historically best. But lately the reports have been well after dark. But you never know. All my reprts have been first hand from cookie but ill be up come Thursday for 4 days in the past we have always been able to catch em all day but hole hopping. Lots of drilling and spread out. And find a fishy area and be there at prime time. You can be 20 feet away from a guy catching em one after the other and not mark a fish.

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We are out of beacon harbor. The crappies we have been getting the last couple weeks have been coming around 9pm or early in the morning, 3am or so. One interesting thing I have noticed is that where we were catching crappies the walleyes were running really small, the spot we are on now the walleyes are much larger, could this be some sort of sign to why there's no crappies here or is that just coincidence? If all goes well we will be up next Wednesday - Friday.

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Yes small eyes. Or scuffits as cookie calls them. Also tiny perch. If you are catching small/tiny perch during the day youre in a good area. I think the crappies are eating those tiny 2-4" perch. Just my opinion.

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Buddy are you still letting trucks out on your road this weekend? (1/2 ton)

And do you still have bait? Thanks!

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Talked to him this morning and they were still driving out but this time of year its day to day.

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