fishing reports 2020 - Upper Red Lake Fishing Reports (URL)

[fishing tech]

Iced 120 walleyes 12 perch and 2 northerns for 3 of us from 1-6pm today. 3.5 days of fishing and almost 6 scoops of fatheads. Fantastic weekend. Lindy red flyer typed with a head and a single red hook with a fathead under a bobber. We were out by the ice have. Alot of popping and banging going on. Can't wait to come back next year.

[Boar]

Thanks guys, I kept the rock and am a little woried on the rock slot, is it oz's or inches.

[ozzie]

its not the weight or the length it is the transporting of aquatic species that they will nab ya for!!

[JeffB]

Thanks guys, I kept the rock and am a little woried on the rock slot, is it oz's or inches.

I wouldn't mind catching one of those myself. Got any tips. Were they close to the bottom or suspended.

[fish_hunt_guy]

suspended over 35' of water

[traveler]

suspended over 35' of water

what do you take us for, suckers?? Everyone knows there ain't 35 ft of water in Red!

if you want to keep the rock spot secret, just say so...

[Boar]

It came in like a rock et, slammed my flyer and headed straight for the bottom. I kept a patch of alge on for identification during transportatiin. Since i didnt cross any boundaries and went to no other lakes im good.

[PRO-V]

I've heard they are very tough to clean. Most folks just boil them and throw 'em in your soup.

[Agronomist_at_IA]

I hear they are tuff to clean, but a little butter and hot oil can make anything good.

[BigDogRob]

Yeah, don't forget to bread it and everything is good deep-fried right?

[DREZLER]

You better check the Minnesota Dept of Natural Resources- they probably have came out with a mandatory class for 2015 teaching you all about rocks and how to handle them.

[YiGGiN4SLoBS]

Looks like an excellent winter depth finder... you won't waste but a second setting the slip for your bobber. And hey, if ya can't catch em maybe you can just bonk em on the head and they will float up your hole!! I think your on to something boar...

[bturck]

Boar you're killin me........Next you'll have Fisky trying this trick....OMG

[PRO-V]

The rocks may be biting but the walleyes seemed to shut off for us. 6 guys in our group today. Fished the east shore in 10' where we hammered them the other day. VERY SLOW. Caught 3 keepers, released 5 slots. Some other guys we spoke to had worse luck than that.

[B-man715]

Bummer to here the fish aren't biting for you guys..........but......

It should be good news for this weekend's bite

Nothing worse than hearing the old "Ya shoulda been here yesterday...."

Hopefully we can all say that on Monday

Boar, you headed out?

[Boar]

Yuper i got get a rock for the wall, there in ther, its just time on the ice, and that trophy rock will be lieing on the ice like a..........rock. i have a new recipe to try with rock, ya take the rock an put in cresaunt dough and bake it. it called Rock @ Roll. BOOOOOOOOooooooooo, I promise I wont quite my day job. fish will hit sautrday, gaurunteed, if not I have a rock i'll sell ya cheap.

[fishersofmen]

We did really well the last couple days caught over 100 and lost plenty too. Most fish came morning and afternoon. Thanks to Jerome at Alpine for taking good care of us and putting us on fish!

[Bogie04]

We did really well the last couple days caught over 100 and lost plenty too. Most fish came morning and afternoon. Thanks to Jerome at Alpine for taking good care of us and putting us on fish!

+1

[BJ HILLMAN]

Hillmans Road is open to all trucks 3/4 and 1ton trucks have to drive slow and yes you can pull your wheel house also. We have about 17ins of ice of good ICE and the fishing has and still is great.

[cookie129]

hey bj welcome to fishing minnesota

[tunrevir]

Back to the reports. Fished UR on Friday drove out from JR's as we were going to meet up with another party. They sent us out to center bar. We worked for four hours punching holes in all depths from 10 to 15 fow and after 4 hours had one flag and a missed fish to show for our efforts. Probably punched 60 holes and made three moves in that time. Made a major move and tried in 16 fow about 3 miles out and viola we found willing fish. Worked the fish from noon until 430 and caught over 60 fish between 3 guys. Early afternoon, tipups were taking a lot of fish with fish coming occasionally on spoons. Red 1/16th forage minnow and 1/8th vmc rattle spoon in pink and yellow turned my fish. Late afternoon, the jig bite picked up and the action was still hot and heavy when we packed up to head back to the motel. Seemed like the fish were more willing to hit the forage minnow early and the rattle spoon towards evening. Biggest fish of the day as a 21.5 while almost every fish we caught were 15-19 so we kept 9 for the frypan and had a great day on the lake once we found some active fish.

Tunrevir~

[sx2]

Been on the Center Bar since Friday night, and the fish are definitely not as active as they were last weekend when we were much closer to shore. Still caught our limit though. Fish are hitting rattle reals rather than jigging. We are using rainbows and fatheads which the fish are favoring the rainbows. Plenty of time to save water and drink beer.

[Boar]

Pretty slow for us today, managed our limit, of 6 for 2 people and missed probably a dozen, thought i was on LOW for awhile, but we got our fish and had a awsome time. Fisky i sent a email on friday and called twice, had a spot for ya. next time bud.

[Reedo7]

Fished solo this weekend. Started slow so I moved three times. I finally got into them in the deep mud in a random spot all by myself. I managed 19 nice eyes for the weekend. Bare hooks caught the most fish, while pink jigging spoon came in second. Only one fish over 20". Most were between 14-17". Last weekend was way better, but it's still good out there. I talked to two different guys that did good in 10' too.

[B-man715]

Went out of JR's, they too sent us to the center bar on Friday night. Fishing was slow, and most were small.

Late Saturday morning we moved and fished about a mile out and west of the road. Fishing was much better with more quality fish and had a limit of 16-17" fish in no time.

Then my friend talked me into a secret lake about 2 hours away where we had a riot with countless 12" crappies and 5 big walleyes (biggest was 27", all cpr'd) It was well worth the extra drive

[MNfan]

Fished Friday 7 pm - Sunday 3 pm and had a good trip with a limit of 16" fish to take home had a big meal on the lake missed more than our share and had plenty in the slot. 14' in the mud for us was the best but no pattern on what worked best caught them on many different presentations even got one with a trick I think the famous Kelly let slip one time. Had a walleye just hanging around would look ar everything but bite nothing so we tail hooked a minnow with a buckshot and dropped it in the mud for about a minute and bang away he went with and up the hole he came. Caught 2 bonus elusive but still catchable Red Lake crappies one being 14.75". Ice was a mess water everywhere running in the holes like it was April.

Andy

[LunkerLover84]

A group of 6 of us are coming up Thurs morning and staying until sunday. We are going out of Bear Paw's houses. If anyone is in the area and knows where Bear Paw has their houses, come by and shoot the breeze with us! We'll have cold beers waiting for ya! We'll have the 2 pick-ups with trailors attached. Hope the fish are biting!!

[Agronomist_at_IA]

Cool four of us are heading up wednesday morning hoping to be on the ice by noon. We are going through chad bensen on the south shore, been going through him for about 6yrs. He's always had us on fish, & yhe first year we went through him we caught 100fish a day per each person😮 so we always stayed with him. never had a bad trip.

[PKretsch20]

Is Chad Benson just a private outfitter or is he with one of the businesses or what? I have not heard of Chad.

[city slicker]

He runs some wheel houses out of the south side.city