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Good one Royce, Lake of the Woods?

Haven't caught any either Jeremy, but did land an American Eel once. Very strange specie, but quite similar.

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yepper, LOW a few years ago. used to catch lots of them in the winter above and below sartell dam.

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As eyeguy said, the river above and below the dam in Sartell is FULL of them. Back in the ol' days, there was actually safe ice below the dam. Drill a hole, drop down a minnow, and up would come all the 12'' eel pout you could handle. The same is true above the dam as well, but I found one *special* place that was especially loaded with them. Hence the nickname. Scroll back a few years' worth of posts and you'll see plenty of photos. smile

I've been happy to catch a few on Mille Lacs this year, too. For whatever reason, that lake used to be loaded with them, too. Guys would stack them like cordwood outside their fishhouses in the winter. Maybe that's why there aren't as many in there now, who knows.

If you ever do catch one, keep it and eat it. Yummy. Probably my favorite fish (which admittedly isn't saying very much).

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I was planning on trying lake koronis tomorrow morning anyone know of any parking or access points to get onto the north side of the lake where the islands are? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Be careful out there guys. I've been on a few different lakes the last couple days and today especially saw quite a few holes opening up in the ice from previous auger holes. One was about two and half feet in diameter and were tough to see with all the water on top of the ice. Big enough for smaller kids to fall through.

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Was on little rock this morning got a lot of ok perch and a couple sunnies that surprised me.

And to the "wonderful" person that drove a super duty within 20 ft of me- please learn some respect. Just because you want to gamble doesn't mean a person that walked out wants to risk their life. Nuff said.

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Went out in search of some Spanish today. Pretty tough time finding anything of quality. Ended up findings a small area on a shallow flat that held a few respectable fish full-26589-52006-1224141430c.jpg

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Nice Bass Bryan start calling you the bassmaster smile

I know right... Thanks Icehawk!

Nice Gill Rick. Might have to have you show me someday where to find them wink

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Fished on a new lake for me this afternoon.I finally settled around a hump @ 6'-10' in depth.Stayed busy with around (25-30)sunnies caught but only kept what was worth frying.

Used a pinkish mooska jig, tipped with bright plastics.A lonely bass came out too.

Nice fishing today.

PS:

Be carful out there! I put my whole leg through a hole today.It was covered in smow right around where I was fishing.

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Good job Jeremy glad you found some out there looks like some good eats smile

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Way to go Jeremy. I am glad you had a good day on the lake as well.

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Hit Rice this morning in the crowd out of Fisher's...Was only a handful of people there when I arrived and within a half hour there was lots....anyway I caught a bunch of smaller crappies and tiny perch. Took a while to figure out what they wanted but when I did it was game on. Wish I could've stayed longer and hopefully got into some that were a little bigger.

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Just looking for People who fish Koronis, Rice, And the chain (Paynesville/Richmond area) I have my own gear 2man clam flip over 8.25 strike master solo locator and other fishing gear but always fish by my self unless I take one of my Kids just wondering if anyone would be interested in going out fishing? I'm available any day of the week after 4pm and any time during the weekend as long as the wife says its ok to go out. Thanks

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What are you guys thoughts on fishing without a flasher (fishing blind)? Sent in my flasher to be fixed but wanting to go out. My plan is to use navionics to find depths and just dead stick/tip up a line and a jigging rod for the other line. Gonna be tough but the itch to get out is real. Planning on going to spots that has been good to me so far.

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If it means fishing or staying home Id go with out it. Yes it definitely makes it a lot tougher but we all caught fish the old school way before electronics became so popular. Think of it as a challenge you can overcome smile

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What are you guys thoughts on fishing without a flasher

it's what we did before we owned them. smile get out and have some fun smile

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I agree with eyeguy and icehawk, but I have been on a solid bite. So I sent my friend who came home for Christmas out to the spot I have been doing so well on. He does have not have Vex and he caught 3 fish he fished 1 foot off the bottom. Problem the crappies have been coming in at 7 to 9 feet off the bottom. I told him this but he did not listen. He caught 1 perch and 2 nice gills.

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