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Park Rapids area Fishing Reports


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Hope to get out this weekend and take my nephew. Any luck with any panfish. I just want to catch fish so he doesn't get bored. It will be his first trip out on the ice. I just got him into fishing this past summer and he is hooked. Any help is really appreciated as I can't get up there and do any scouting and I only hit the ice twice in the area last year. Thanks! !

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"Reports of 6" on Fish Hook, 10" Portage, 6" Potato, 7" Long. The houses are starting to go out and 4 wheelers have been seen as well. Good walleye bite a couple nights ago on Fish Hook."

This has been up awhile so I am sure its changed. Hopefully someone else will have more recent info as I am curious as well.

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was out there yesterday morning off the assembly grounds and there was 14 inches of good ice. vechicles on the ice, me i took the four wheeler with chains on rear and had no problem going anywhere. buddy of mine drove his 1/2 truck out to where i was . hope this helps and good luck

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Thanks for the update, kids are looking forward to fishing on Friday and Saturday, Dad's looking forward to a pre-derby fishing! one other question do they plow the access on the east side at the bible camp?

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Hey, got a chance to head up to PR last minute for the next 3-4 days. No experience in the area....where is a good bait shop to hit? and, sounds like fish hook is one place to try....any tips on others near by? ...I am usually the last to drive on and not sure what the ice/slush is like so I will likely be walking and pulling an otter out so any tips on a good spot to do that w/o having to kill myself would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Check out Delany's in Park Rapids. It is right on 34, hard to miss it. Good luck, I haven't made it up there yet so I cannot really give you any places to try but if you ask in the bait shop they will pint you in the right direction.

Dan

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Wondering if anyone has made it to any lakes in or close to Itasca state park. Looking for some panfish or walleye action.

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I heard lake george is a good spot to start. have not been up there lately though. usually good this time of year

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Yhanks for the tip on the baitshop Danimal....

Looking at my map of Fish hook I only see one access...on the south side....I see references to some other access points....what are my options for access to Fish hook???

appreciate any help....thanks!

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Access on fish hook is not on the south side where indicated. You are seeing the dean park "access". The river leaves the lake there and is unsafe. 1 mile north on HWY 71 from HWY 34 intersection is a landing that is the main one on the lake. The assembly grounds off county road 1 by the golf course is the other. If you have any questions at all delaneys or northern bait can help you out.

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Heading to Lake George end of Feb. from Saint Paul, where can I get bait around there? Any recent reports on ice or bite?

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There are a couple of bait shops in Park Rapids, you'll be either going through there or close to it. Delany's is right on 34. There might be a bait shop in Lake George itself, i cannot remember for sure though.

Dan

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Big Jeff

Just got back from that area I got bait in park rapids but was told there is a place in lake gorge that a guy sell bait out of his shed and the gas station bottle shop at the park enterance also has bait. I was able to get around on most lakes with the truck but it was not fun some of them I would break through the slush and almost get stuck bring shovels and tow straps a sled would be better to get around on. Ice is plenty thick on all the lakes I was on and had a tough bite but did catch crappies,sunnies,jumbo perch and even had a walleye around 10 pounds break off when I was trying to turn it into the hole, If you can't locate fish on a lake don't be affraid to look at the map and pick another if you have a sled you can fish any lake you wanted

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Caught 40+ Crappies in teh third crow wing thursday. Top waters, cranks, minnows, tubes, curly tails, it all worked that day! Couple 13" too!

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Walleyes sucked on fish hook tonight. Had one bite off from what seemed like a decent sized walleye, coulda been a northern. I tried jigging and dragging a leech on a straight hook. Hit most of my walleye haunts and only managed a couple northerns. Probably try it again tomorrow with a better bait assortment since I was marking lots of fish in 18-20'.

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The ice is out''''' cool July 1 after 4 days SW high winds, 6 to 10 ft. we caught 30 eyes 14 to 28 in. limited on 18-19 inchers.

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I caught a nice walleye, about 25", Fri night on a Gulp minnow in 13'. There was a private bass tourney Sat a.m. One guy said it was pretty slow; some bit early but not much after that. It's been pretty slow for walleye this year for me.

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We got back yesterday we had 1 good eater walleye 16". Did ok with crappies and sunfish.

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just got back from the crow wing chain. Did really well on sunnies and crappies. Caught a few bass also and a couple normans but no walleyes. Of course we never really fished for them either. Grandkids had a ball on the pontoon though.

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Just returned yesterday afternoon from our annual Long Lake vacation. Walleye fishing was good for us this year compared to previous years. Our primary method used was crank bait trolling over the weeds. We would start around 8pm every evening in around 15' of water, and gradually move in shallow to 8-10 fow. #11 floaters were the lure of choice with little to no action on shad shaped cranks. The best action occurred between 9:30pm to 12am around the full moon Sunday tapering to just a few fish caught Thursday, and Friday evenings. Sizes ranged from 23" to 14", speed favored by the fish was 2.3mph. All in all a great week in God's Country!!

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