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Lake Independence Report '04


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Just thought I'd start a new one rather than roll one over from this winter. Anybody been out there since the opener?

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although i fish indy a bit in the fall, i thought i would try it early so had last thursday off and went out-some small perch and a tiny walleye- i was surprised this early in the year there was so much algae in the water- yuck- too much dandelion spraying around the lake if you ask me

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  • 1 month later...

Was out tonight and got the big goose egg. Fished the point on the east side, the east side of the island, the midlake hump, and the reeds on the north end. Pulled spinners/crawlers, lindy rig/leech, and slip bobber with a leech. Anybody having any luck?

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I was out Saturday from 7:00 til 3:00 and nothing... I tried every approach I knew and nada!!

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I don't think that's algae. There have been numerous reports of raw sewage overflowing into the lake over the past 12 months. I too noticed a green slimey sludge the only two times out this year and have decided to move to other "cleaner" lakes.

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I'm no expert but I thought it was an algae bloom.... it was definitely thick! If it does happen to be sewage runoff I'd like to know about it! I remember last year when they had the toilet by the beach back up... they put up notice if i remember correctly... I would assume they would do the same again for the swimmers... thats why I don't believe it to be sewage runoff... my .02 worth.

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The last problem was end of last year. When walking out to ice fish we noticed a lot of slush by shore, which we thought was a bit unusual. We discovered later it was a sewage leak.

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I was out on independence on Friday night and caught one walleye and one northern, both very nice fish. I caught them both on a shad rap.

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I'm not sure what the cause is but I've noticed the water clarity is much worse than usual. The outside weedline usually ends at 12-14 ft in previous years but it's at 6-8 ft this year. I've really noticed the poor clarity while using the Aqua Vu.

Eyemaster: Thanks for the info. Since the fish roam so much, I'm gonna change to a faster 'search bait' . Crankbaits may be just the ticket.

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i tried leeches, crawlers and minnows and got nothing till i switched to the shad rap!

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  • 2 weeks later...

It's been over a week since the last "no fish" report was posted, anybody having any success out here lately?

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Was out there yesterday for a few hours in the late morning. Trolled leaches off of the hump and got nothing. Moved over to the shore line along the launch and trolled shad rap and got a 16" eye and a 26" Pike (approximately 5+ lbs) in about 10 minutes.

Water was like pea soup.

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Any recent reports from Indy? Going out tomorrow to fish pike and muskies.

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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. .  
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    • LakeofthewoodsMN
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    • 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
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    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
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