st cloud St Cloud Fishing Reports

[Huckleberry Finn]

8 hours ago, Rick G said:

Welcome to FM, Huckleberry Finn!  I was on that same strech yesterday. Lots of white suckers, reds should start anyday...then those big carp.  

Any milk coming from the male fish?

One was a little drippy...

[JeremyCampbell]

A jogger went by and chatted when the timer went off for the photo lol

But ya..its like the suckers want to be hooked lately

[eyeguy 54]

nice pic. I was fishing the other day from a small bridge and a guy was coming my way with his dog. He was staring at his phone and had no idea I was there and he was about to walk into me.  I waited and said Hi ! kinda loud when he was about 5 feet from me and he almost sharted himself. LOL  

[eyeguy 54]

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[Barefoot]

Last Saturday I found water temps in the upper 30s and lower 40s.  Today most of the water was upper 40s and crappie where not shallow. Found a small area of 54 degree water and bite was on!

[Bass Thumb]

I found 47-50 degree water on the Sauk River Chain with crappies holding in 7-13 FOW. We fished 5 different lakes. The bite was pretty lousy until we ran into a big school of active crappies in the hour before sunset and bagged about 50, one after another, mostly in the 5-7" range with a handful of 9-10". We were casting Gulp minnows on 1/64oz jigheads.

 

It was a lot of fun. I've never had the boat out this early before.

[eyeguy 54]

Nice job !

[Rick G]

Cold and windy today. Fish didn't sem to mind too much.  Found them in a shallow feeding bay

[Bass Thumb]

Finding fish in 1-3' in the warm bays in areas with thicker weeds. Dark bottom content was key. Was able to get 5 - 9" gills between my dad and I. Biggest crappies were 11". 

[SpearPike]

Lots of panfish shallow now.  Been doing well in the 3 to 5 ft range with waxies and flu-flu

[tworiversman]

slabs are smackin the plastics. 

[Rick G]

Yes they are...love this time of year

[Bass Thumb]

"Caught" my biggest crappie of the open water season today, almost 12". It was snagged right through the back!

[eyeguy 54]

Heck of a day today. 10:30 to 1:30 only 2 crappies and I almost left.  decided to hang in there and try a couple spots close by.  1:45 to 3:30 it was game on time! 1 nice 9 inch gill and close to 40 crappies. The size was dandy. Many 10 1/2 to 11 3/4 inchers and hit 12 twice. Best crappie bite I have ever had in the yak.  All released.  

[Rick G]

Good Job

[eyeguy 54]

Hit the secret beach on the sippi for a couple hours today with some crawlers. wind was pretty crazy. smally bit first then a sucker. then the eyes moved in and I decided to leave. a young guy came down while I was fishing and was casting a spinnerbait and I asked him what he was after. he said bass so I let him know that it is illegal to target them and eyes till next month and that the game warden watches people in the area quite often. He said he had no idea he could not fish for them, thanked me and said he wont cast anymore. nice young guy. I bet he will be down again with some crawlers. 

[Cret Jigs]

Eyeguy - what size weight are you using at the Miss?  Are you using a bullet weight and a worm hook to hold your crawler?

 

Cret

[AlwaysFishing23]

All we ever use is a few bigger spilt shots and float/bobber with crawlers. 

[eyeguy 54]

fished a different spot today and it was strange, I was using crawlers and a lot of eyes bit and only 1 sucker.  guy next to me was using earthworms and he caught a lot of suckers and 1 eye.  twilight zone ! !  LOL  I just use a slpit shot most of the time. 

[Tom Sawyer]

Strange indeed... Try looking for much more slack water compared to the beech you were yesterday and today. The West side of the dam was on fire this afternoon; a friend and I were in the double digits within an hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AlwaysFishing23]

Very weird. Those little worms in the garden do catch more than little 2-4 sunfish.

[eyeguy 54]

I remember when I first moved to MN I went down to the dam with a buncha angleworms. Coudnt keep the smallies off. LOL  

[Tom Sawyer]

We were using both, but the number of fish caught was definitely based on..... location, location, location - slack water during high flows is where it's at buddy.

[eyeguy 54]

yepper, almost 30 between the 2 of us in the slack water next to fast water. kinda hard to fish in that fast water when it's moving so fast...  

[tworiversman]

fishing has been good around St. cloud I got into some nice bluegills and hybrids over the weekend. Made a cool video to go along with it. 

 

 

[sartellangler05]

I missed one just like this on Clearwater!! I was sightfishing, and the thing was HUGE! Sucked the hook after watching it suck my Marmooska jig in its mouth and it snapped my line!! Ughh would have been my personal best. 

 

Sunfish were biting shallow few days ago. 1-4 fow. Got a few 10" and kept a couple for the pan. 

[Rick G]

Nice one, tworiversman!!!

[eyeguy 54]

dont say where LOL

 

[JeremyCampbell]

Nice catch tworiversman.

 

Had some fun on the river today with a couple of species.Hope it stays nice out for the rest of the week.

 

[kunzi26]

Hit the river Sunday morning and today before the rain. Was nice to get out on opener and find some smallmouth. Hit this guy on my 4th cast waded out about 20 yards from shore at a popular shore fishing spot. Kicking myself for not bringing my scale out as it was definitely my PB smallmouth. Second shot was of the one I got earlier today down by Beaver Islands. Lots of people down there searching the river for that missing girl... hoping for the best there.