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Grindstone Lake Fishing Reports


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went this morning and did not have great luck. Caught bunch of small perch, 1 smelt, 1 salamander looking thing, 1 huge 12" brown trout, not by length it was just plain fat! Ok so iam not sure what the salamander thing was but it had a tail like an ealpot, flappy gills, and a mouth and four legs, I did get a picture with my cell phone. It was creepy looking. Does anyone know what these beast I am discribing are called?

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just wondering what depth you caught the brownie in? i tried the shallows this morning, no luck. went deep for lakers had half a dozen lookers....no takers and lots of smelt.

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Will how deep are you catching smelts or are they suspended and are they biting pretty good? I'll be there tomorrow afternoon

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When we were up there 2 weekends ago, we caught smelt, fillet them, and used them as bait.... still, not much action.

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Caught the brownie in 20' of water in the mid day. I think you just have to be lucky to catch them since the cruise sooooooo much. WOuld everyone else agree?

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the rainbows and browns seem to be hard for me to target on this lake. i have tried everything that seems logical to me. i start out shallow, early then gradually move deeper as the sun gets higher. i am able to find lakers in deeper water. i have been concentrating on the north end because of the better access. does anybody have any thoughts?

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The south has a decent access also, I just drove by on Friday and as long as you have four wheel you will be fine. There were a few guys fishing that end. How have you done in the morning in the shallow water? and how shallow are you going?

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Looks interesting but I wonder if it won't hit some legal debate like the Automatic duck wings did. Unfortunately I already have too much electronics to bring out that is all I need.

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MY grampa and I go fishing for lakers all the time, just not in the metro. We usualy look for them in no shallower than 60 foot and all the way to suspended at 120 feet. Try to concentrate on irregularities especialy deeper holes and humps, but bottom type changes will do the trick too. There's a deep (80-100') underwater peninsula twords the NE side of the lake that has a nice 135+ foot hole on the east side of it. That should be productive, but hey its lakers nothings set in stone. otherwise just get a map and pick the best looking spots and start searching. A airplane jigs tiped with smelt are never a bad choice.

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I will probably be going up again on Friday, this time I am bring a buddies vex with for the lakers. I have to get all the time in I can now since my wife is due to have our second in 16 days, I think this will put a little cramp on my ice fishing, who know though!

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  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders

Man, 6448 views and 108 replies to this post! I hope there's a fish left in the lake when I head up the weekend after this!

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Went Sat, Ice was good, seen one truck out at the double humps. Have to go out by the barn as the access is wet with all the rain. All the snow and I mean all the snow is gone and it is just one big sheet of ice. Ice looked about 18" or so. I drove a sled out so no problem there. Got about 8-9 small Lakers kept 2. Only got one Smelt but wasn't really trying or setup for them. One guy I talked to said he was sight fising and seen about 50 Browns and Bow's but only got 2 to bite.

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I am curious how lakers do when they get released? I thought that if you are pulling a fish out of that deep of water that they will just die? Just a qeustion I have offten thought about.

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no they have a presher releas like sisteam in there gills

so when you pull them up and out of the water you can hear poping coming from there gills.

thats why.

and they fight better then any othere fish at deep water.

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    • 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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