Nokomis Report

[G_man]

Not much to report, I got skunked. Spent 4-6:30pm out there. Had one bite on a jigging rap with a minnow head. Nothing on jig and waxie or minnow. Nothing on jigging spoon. I went to the culvert near cedar ave on the west side. There was about half a dozen shacks there. Fished in 9-10' of water about 30 from shore and about 15' from a depth of 3'. Talked to a few people out there and heard of one cigar and a few perch around 2:30pm, and then everything turned off.

It was the first time out and I've only partially scratched my itch. I feel stupid because I forgot my new Marcum on the charger. Why'd I buy it if I was going to forget it?

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Life is too short to not go fishing today!

[Mr. Pike1]

G-man, sorry to hear of the limited success and that you were fishing blind. Get out to Garvais when you can the bite is on.

[Lunker]

Wow, I'm surprised to hear that report! Not even a perch huh.... Usually they are ravenous. I will be out tues or wed probably, so I'll report then.

[Works2Fish]

I was out on Nokomis north of the main beach on the west side of the lake from about 6:45am to 9:30am on Sunday. The small perch were biting, but no luck with anything larger. The ice was plenty thick though and the weather was great.

Plenty of crappie minnows left over, so I am headed out this evening to see if I can scare up a bite.

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"The two best times to fish is when it's rainin' and when it ain't."

[Ice9]

I may be on the lake Weds evening with some newbie students of mine (high school kids). I've absorbed most of the suggestions listed here for Nokomis but any more specifics would be useful. The walleyes weed oriented? What depth in this shallow lake? Drop-off or flat?

Dave

[Lunker]

I may be out wednesday as well, maybe I'll see you out there(I won't have a shack, navy blue jaket, red hat, red sled). If you see me give a holler. I have not found the walleyes to be weed oriented at all, nor have I found drop offs to be very productive. Look at a map on the dnr if you want to get the idea of some sand bars or points. In would suggest not going to the point on the west side unless you want perch. I will be off to one side of the big beach(north side of point) but feel free to join me in that area, i don't mind. That or I would go past the access and fish a bar that is north of the bridge a little, but there are usually people fishing there in numbers. See ya on the lake(maybe)

[Lunker]

Well, I made it out today, and have an decent report. Started fishing at around 2, drilled a buch of holes from 8-20 ft deep, set up a minnow and bobber, and went to jigging with my waxie. Didn't even have perch biting, which is weird, finally caught one in 8 ft. after a half hour. Had a hunch, moved in to 6ft and caught perch non-stop for the next hour and a half, no size to any of them but fun. Don't know why they were so shallow. Before sundown the bite dropped off, signaling the time to change to jig and minnow. Fished that around with no success for a while, went to check on my bobber set in 12ft, but was frozen into the hole. Broke the ice and my bobber immedialtey moved across the hole. Picked up a walleye, then another, etc. Iced 4 small eyes(around 10-12"each), lost another, then they moved shallower and the bite slowed down. Missed a couple of heavy strikes in 8ft, then it died and I packed up. Would have probably been able to cathc more during that 10 minute flurry, but my bobber was all froze up and I couldnt get it down to the right depth fast enough! Oh well. Only bites were on a plain hook and crappie minnow, jig just got little taps, no takers. Hope this report gives some ideas of where to look what to use. Won't be back there till next week, gonna hit some southern metro lakes this weekend.

[Lunker]

If anybody goes to nokomis, make sure you stay until sundown. The eye bite usually is fast and furious at sundown..

[Lunker]

Any one else been out or going to be out this weekend?

[Kostoglotov]

Lunker

I'm going to head out there this afternoon, probably on the West side.

[dprose]

Kostoglolov,
Let us know how you do bud!

[Kostoglotov]

Fished from 4-8 on the Westside, South of the parking lot. Marked fish a couple of times (Walleye's coming in??) for 1/2 hour or so but couldn't get much of a bite.

Wound up with 3 small Wallys (8" +/-)and 2 Bullheads.

Looking at heading out tommorow morning to try again

[Lunker]

Not to shabby. I think that nokomis is gonna be great in a few years when all those dinks are grown up. There are a lot of nice fish in there also, but seem to be fairly difficult to find. Report again if you make it back out. I'm headed to a lake in the southwest burbs tommorrow, but am gonna try to make it to nokomis in the next few days.