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I was out yesterday and found a mess of perch and a couple of crappies, but the bite was very lite. I needed to use my lightest spring bobber with a Custom Jig and Spins Diamond jig and a Trigger X 1" minnow. 

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Went to one of the small lakes within 20 of town today. Found pretty good ice once on the lake, right around 14 inches yet, access was pretty beat up. 

Chose a Northern shoreline with a good weedline. Fish are really starting to pile up in the shallows already. We worked an outside weedline in 5-7 ft of water, drilling holes every 10 ft untill we found some live green weeds. It didn't take long once we found live weeds to find some active panfish. Andrea had the hot stick today, she landed big gill of day 9.25in and big crappie at 11in. I got plenty of fish, just couldn' t break the 9in mark on gills..... 4mm tungsten jigs tipped with meat or a white plastic tails caught most of our fish today.

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Way to go Andrea, dandy gill! At least you caught biggest bass Rick :)

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Fun city !  Nice job Andy. 

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good eats !

 

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Is this going to be the last weekend to get on the ice? Starting Monday the overnight temperatures don't look like they will fall below freezing. 

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Very very very nice fish, Great job and it looks like it was fun with some great weather to boot.

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I have a lot to learn...

I'm an avid catch-and-release bass angler, but this is my first year ice fishing. I can't find a thing out there with any consistency, much less fish like these, and I've been fishing with my dad 3-5 times a week since January. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction via PM? I'd like to learn more about the Horseshoe Chain in particular. 

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8 hours ago, BeaverIslander said:

I have a lot to learn...

I'm an avid catch-and-release bass angler, but this is my first year ice fishing. I can't find a thing out there with any consistency, much less fish like these, and I've been fishing with my dad 3-5 times a week since January. 

Can anyone point me in the right direction via PM? I'd like to learn more about the Horseshoe Chain in particular. 

Welcome to Fishing Mn, BeaverIslander.   I will send you a pm with a coulpe spots to try out on the chain.

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welcome to FM Beaver. With that name I bet you love the bronzebacks on the creek. :) 

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Great Report Pinksinko, thanks for sharing :)

13 hours ago, PiNkSiNkO said:

 

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Welcome to Fishing Minnesota BeaverIslander, you'll find a lot of river rats here..................

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Hit a local lake with Andrea today. Seems with each passing day the fish are moving more and more toward the shallows. Todays adventure brought us to a 4-6ft flat, in the summer this area is choked out with thick vegitation. Right now there are  small standing clumps of live green weeds scattered over the flat. By keying in on where we are finding the best clumps of weeds and working the area over good we found some respectable bluegills and crappies durring tough conditions.

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Wednesday afternoon I put an ugly end to my ice fishing by slipping on the ice and making ugly rib bones out of the deal. After I got my things to the landing there was a nice guy there to help me put my gear into the back of the van thanks " Nice Guy".

  Turns out i broke 4 ribs and will be doing very little for 6 to 8 weeks. To everyone else be careful. I found out one of my brothers friends broke his rist on the same day doing the same thing 

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So sorry to hear that you slipped !  Best wishes on the healing, rib pain sucks to the 10th degree. pm me if I can be of any help. 

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Ouch. Broken ribs are painfull fell out of a treestand once:( Hopefully all goes well hopeing for a speedy recovery.

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Sorry to hear of your misfortune, Paul:(  Anything with the ribs sucks, can't move, can't breath...... I feel for you, bud.

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That's horrible; hope your recovered by opener. Good luck.

On a lighter note fishing was excellent yesterday down in the Annandale area. Patty and I tried a lake I haven't fished in our 20 years and found out it, to be very similar to what it was. Fairly easy limit of nice Bluegill and a suntan to go. It was funny that I mentioned going there a couple weeks, but the lake didn't make the panfish hitlist.

Fun times, but you won't even be walking on that lake one by next weekend....... 

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Ouch Paul!  Hope you heal up soon.  I took a tumble Saturday waling across the lake but came out a lot better for it than you.  Even with cleats on is was a tough walk.  

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Thanks for all the well wishes  I guess the fish need a break too! 

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ouch, hope you heal well, no fun with broken ribs

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dandy !  congrats on a beast !

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you know you guys really s#$^ showing us all this fishy porn while where here work.......ah never mind!!!!!!:D nice fish gentlemen!

looks like that nord met his match !!!!!!!!!!

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