st cloud St Cloud Fishing Reports

[Rick G]

Tis the season for finding lost gear on the lake

Very good of you for making an effort to return found property!

[Tom Sawyer]

I was out on Briggs today and found something I'd be glad to return if you can tell me what it is. You could send me a pm. No fish today, and not much going on with others I talked to.

Guess I'd post your discovery in the Lost and Found forum also. Your post here will soon be buried.

[Team Bobberdown]

I'm going to hit some lakes on sat, do you think the Ice should be good???? also anyone have any suggestion???? I was going to Hit Auchman or pleasant or maybe some lakes by st. Johns for pannies and crappies. anything hitting out there???

[Rick G]

7-8 below tonight, 15 below Fri night, I would think by sat you will be fine. I have heard that a mix of gills and crappies can be caught around the first point on Pleasant.

[CrewJones]

was out tonight on long, lost my dead stick setup, its cheap so who ever finds it hope it treats you well.

Anyway got a couple bites there maybe 6-8 inches of ice. the went over to the briggs chain. Elk had frozen slush over ice measuring almost a foot. Who knows how strong it is did a lot of cracking so I wouldn't be pushing my luck. Got one nice walleye love first ice !!!

[Team Bobberdown]

thanks for the update rick on the Ice. And I think I will hit Pleasant I always do well early Ice on that lake.

[JeremyCampbell]

I'm going to hit some lakes on sat, do you think the Ice should be good???? also anyone have any suggestion???? I was going to Hit Auchman or pleasant or maybe some lakes by st. Johns for pannies and crappies. anything hitting out there???

Big Nick- Achmans last week was not real strong for myself and other Ice fishermen I talked to.A lot of little perch and very few and very small panfish.

[Iron Cowboy]

7-8 below tonight, 15 below Fri night, I would think by sat you will be fine. I have heard that a mix of gills and crappies can be caught around the first point on Pleasant.

Have the gills got any bigger out there? Used to fish that exact spot quite a bit but havent in years. a guy could get some nice crappies but the sunfish seemed to be stunted with nothing over about 6 inches

[Rick G]

The DNR has a 5 sunfish limit on the lake now, over all the size is improved over what it was say 5-10 years ago.

[The_King48]

I've never been to the Briggs chain before. I was thinking about heading out there tomorrow. Is the ice thick enough for a atv? Is there anywhere local to get bait?

[KenM1987]

The hardware store in Palmer always has a ton of bait plus very cheap prices on one pounders of propane. 3.49 i believe. good place to support. as for wheeler traffic ive seen a few on elk but don't know about briggs lake itself.

[LucasMN]

Went out to a lake near Kimball today. Drilled 30+ holes from out infront of the access to where the normal shanty town is as it didn't look like anyone had been out since we got the snow.

Took a first timer out that lost one at the hole but other than that was skunked. Pretty slow, only marked a couple fish. 2 guys came out around 3:30 and couldn't get their auger started. Hopefully they found something in some of the holes I drilled.

6-9 inches of ice.

[Team Bobberdown]

went out and hit little rock. the ice was good, marked a few, but nothing for the ice, pretty dead out there. I seen a few people out and no one got anything but a couple of perch. seen some ATVs and one or two small permanent houses out there.pulled them out with ATVs and seen one of the bigger cubs or whatever they are. Had a good time never-the-less. Maybe get out more on Sunday after church. You all have a blessed night... peace Big Nick Grbich

[Horseshoe_Don]

Found some nice crappies on the chain tonight. The largest one is 13"

Don

[Team Bobberdown]

Nice little catch there Don, No eyes or were you just gunning for crappies? I haven't put a fish on the Ice yet.

[Rick G]

Nice catch there, Don We also got into the crappies out ther today, just not quite as big as yours

[Horseshoe_Don]

I was fishing for eyes. Only got one cigar

[Naturboy]

I was surprised to see a car on the ice last night but then I measured 12 inches of ice. It seems fish on this lake only bite during that twilight period. Well most activity is at that time.

[Horseshoe_Don]

I heard that Horseshoe Don got skunked this morning.

[Rick G]

So we are talking in third person now? It happens to all of us from time to time.

[JeremyCampbell]

LOL,I know all about getting skunked.I'm really good at it too.I've got it down so well that I can get skunked and still manage to have a fish fry.

[Team Bobberdown]

Hey naturboy, I got your text Brad, way to put fish on the Ice bud. I haven't got dump yet. I do plan to go out this weekend looking like maybe Osakis, my buddy know where they are hitting. I will text you later this week. peace Big Nick Grbich

[sartellangler05]

What is your buddy catching? Heading to Osakis tomorrow, chasing the walters. The crappies are pretty easy to find there this year.

[Team Bobberdown]

He limited out on crappies. We also would love to chase down mr walter. I don't know the lake very well, so if you got any tips it will be nice. hope I see some nice photos posted after tomorrow.

[mmk8283]

Has anyone been out on Pearl or Grand lake yet? Just curious on how thick the ice is around there.

[IceHawk]

Grand has 10-11 inches of ice. The fishing has been marginal a few walleys being caught not a lot of numbers but a gd average size of around 17 inches.

[LucasMN]

Has anyone been out on Pearl or Grand lake yet? Just curious on how thick the ice is around there.

Was on grand on Sunday. Only a few other anglers in portable houses. Probably 20 spear houses. 10 inches of ice. We only caught a couple perch. We drilled 50+ holes searching for pan fish.

[Horseshoe_Don]

the last few days been quite slow is anyone having any luck out there on Wallys

[erikwells]

The weekend of December 7 and 8 we had a decent walleye bite. Cold front last weekend all but shut the bite down for us. We caught 2 smallish eyes and we had some rather non-committed fish (pull the bobber down just under the ice and spit the minnow). I thinking this weekend should be better, I hope.

[Horseshoe_Don]

Better tonight I went shallower