Lake Minnewaska Fishing Reports - Ice Conditions

[Rookie13]

Thanks for the update yes, I was inquiring about ice out.

[fishadb]

Anyone been fishing in the marina or anywhere else from shore?

[Prairiefire]

At lunch time yesterday there was a little ice left on the north side by the High School, but my guess is that by today it should be 100% open.

[basssmasher*]

May check out the marina tomorrow, might be early but with my luck if i wait it will be like you shoulda been here last weekend.. lol

[Selmer]

Has anyone picked up any open water panfish on Minnewaska yet?

[clayton08]

if they havent there lying!!! bite is pretty good if you find the right spots

[basssmasher*]

headed out in the am 4 pannies, winds gonna howl again like always but theres fish to be found!

[Selmer]

I'd love to know how you do. I have two little girls that are chomping at the bit to go after bluegills and want to return to Minnewaska. I'm not sure where to start in the early spring. Spawn and post-spawn I think I have figured out, but haven't been there pre-spawn.

[Hammertime0802]

How is the panfish bit looking, would like to head up this weekend.

[basssmasher*]

when I went it was good friday and I forgot.. it was pretty crowded but there are fish to be had in there i did ok, not exceptional though, just enuff for a small meal was all I wanted, and got

[Selmer]

teejay - you're over your PM limit! Clear some out, send me a PM with your email and we'll go from there. We need to get together and catch some fish!

[GoingFishin]

Water temp 62 this year for opener, a month ahead of schedule. Ws scattered in 12-14 feet. Anyone know why the lake is cloudy green this year?

[carpshooterdeluxe]

Anybody have a water temp report?

[EyeChsr]

out fishing pannies on the north side last night 66 in the pencil reeds

[Selmer]

And did you get into the pannies?!?

[EyeChsr]

small ones, herd of other guys cathing nice sunnys closer to the starbuck side and a few crappies earlier in the week

[carpshooterdeluxe]

out fishing pannies on the north side last night 66 in the pencil reeds

Thanks. headed up friday night; hoping to spend more time on the pontoon than in the cabin this weekend!

[Chad Peterson]

Nice to here the pannies are going on waska!

Sniffer

[Selmer]

We're headed up to 'waska now, looking for bluegills and whatever else hits a small jig with a chunk of bait. I'll report back in, maybe with some good pics of little ladies and smiling faces behind some pretty fish!

[basssmasher*]

selmer thanx 4 the invite I was there yesterday and did decent

[Selmer]

We saw a lot of sunfish - 'gills, green sunfish, pumpkinseed, and largemouth, but they were in a neutral mood at best. We were sight-fishing in the pencil reeds. They'd come in and take a look, but rarely committed. We kept 8 sunfish and 3 largemouth and had a great time.

[Selmer]

teejay - if my buddie's boat hadn't broken down so that we had to take mine I would have tossed an invite. But we had two adults and two kids in a 14' boat with 7.5 hp Johnson. Not really room for another - but I thought about you when I got there!

[basssmasher*]

Selmer, Im headed up that way in a few minutes, gunna fish bass in a bay w/waders. I did very well there the other day, all fish were CnR

[carpshooterdeluxe]

Bass and gills wanted nothing to do with any artificial bait large or small yesterday morning, but stick a small leach in front of them and it was game over. I kept two 7" blue gills and tossed back about 12-15 just as big. Kept 1 bass too to round out the frying pan. Threw a jointed rapala on and trolled back to the cabin from the spot I was fishing and got 7 hammer handle pike in a 1/4 mile stretch. Saturday night I caught 3 bass and 1 walleye off the dock just casting a daredevil. First walleye I've caught on a daredevil in 4 or 5 years.

[Selmer]

We were using small chunks of leech on ice jigs or 1/32 oz. marabou jigs. If I saw a really nice fish I wanted to catch, the squirming half went in front of the fish and it was still a 50/50 hit rate. They'll pipe up soon I'm sure!

[carpshooterdeluxe]

We were using small chunks of leech on ice jigs or 1/32 oz. marabou jigs. If I saw a really nice fish I wanted to catch, the squirming half went in front of the fish and it was still a 50/50 hit rate. They'll pipe up soon I'm sure!

Did you try a whole panfish leech at all? I've always had better luck on eater sized gills using whole leeches instead of cut leeches or cut crawler. Get too many dinks with the small baits. The downside (if you don't like catching bass) is that you will catch more bass as well.

[LandDr]

It's been another one of those springs where it rained most of May and 60 days of projects got put into 20 days. Getting caught up so that is a good feeling.

Got out last weekend and had a GREAT walleye bite...estimate that we caught over 60 walleyes between 7am and 1:30pm. It was as good or better than Canada! Nothing too big with a couple of 20s thrown back and a few 18s went back but most of what we caught were around 16 to 17 with some smaller as well. It was not in one spot either...pretty much everywhere we went we had success. Caught some pike and bass as well but mostly walleyes.

I have had some reports of good crappies still and panfish seem to be doing well as always. Pretty hard to beat Minnewaska for bringing the family out fishing...a lot of fish and you never know what you are going to catch.

Fish On!

[cruiseforever]

Going to hit the lake next week for the first time. Where would be a good starting point? Looking for Bass, Northern, Walleye. Looking for some general info. Thanks

[fishadb]

Throw on a plug and start trolling, you will catch all of the above. As for location and depth it doesn't seem to matter, the fish are everywhere right now.

[cavy-on nlsd]

yup.. #5 or #7 shad rap will catch alot of fish.. Last week i had a shadrap destroyed by a big pike or musky in 9' of water. fun fun fun