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I fished Pleasant last night and got 5 nice crappies and some small sunfish drilled some holes to find them but had to keep moving around to find the ones that wanted to bite.

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders
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mmmmmmm!

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It is nice to get a day off to fish during the week. Less traffic, and easier to find some active biters without competition. My dad and I found these and 10 of their brothers in a basin area. For some reason the permanent houses had vacated this area previously...

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Had a very decent walleye bite tonight on the 'Shoe. Nearly all of the eyes I brought up were between 10-12". Lost about a 20" when it hit its head on the ice with a head shake (bad hook set). A green glowing, blue, pink and silver buck shot spoon, that was tipped with a minnow head, was the only weapon in my arsenal that worked. Lucky for me, it's all they wanted. Had to jig vigorously in order for them to commit. Was directly off a point in 21 fow. Also did set my personal record with a 27" kitty cat.

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Thanks for all the reports and helpful tips guys. cool

Also congrats on your personal best catfish

Cable Guy smile

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I've been hammering the 3-6" perch lately. Seems I have a knack for finding them.

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Fished Horseshoe again this afternoon. Crappie bite was TOUGH. All over my sonar and camera but not willing biters. At about 3:30, switched to a size 8 shrimpo with a pink plastic tail. Found that if I jigged it vigorously at about 15-18', the hungry crappies would race up nearly 10' and inhale it!

That ah-ha moment came a little to late as I then switched gears to eyes. Used my blue and pink buckshot spoon in 20 fow. Used it successfully to ice 4 beautiful or ugly cats (depending on your feelings towards them). The fifth cat then proceeded to steal that spoon from me mad. Switched to an orange and black buckshot spoon and did manage to ice a 14 1/2" eye

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Cable guy, were you out there till dark? I was in the area for awhile...

Fished a few different areas this afternoon/evening. First spots I tried were panfish/bass areas. Panfish ran in the small side, bass were plentiful and very willing to bite. full-26589-52480-20150201_132332.jpg

After a couple hours of this we go sick of the bass action. Off to a spot whete I knew there would be a whole bunch of crappies.... after about a dozen hole drilled my buddy looked at me and waved... I knew we had found the school. At first they were tough, vut after some trial and error I figured out that the wanted plastic for a bit, but wouldn't bite anymore after a few had been caught. So I rigged up a second rod with a small spoon, this seemed to be the trick... I would get a dew on the pkastic and then switch over to the spoon for a few. I kept this up for the last hour and half of light. Even mannaged a few nice ones full-26589-52481-20150201_162816.jpg

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As darkness set in I switched over for the cat bite. It was far from fast, but I did get around a dozen between 5:30 and when we left. Nothing very big, but still fun smilefull-26589-52485-20150201_174156.jpg

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Yes I was Rick. I do believe you followed me off the lake wink. And that kitty is kinda small compared to the sizes I seemed to find. Still nice though! Nice work as always

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Nice Crappies Rick. That black Impulse bug has caught more fish than I can remember. Was that a frosty spoon for back up? Red or Green?

Way to go!!! Tough conditions, especially in that location wink

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nice!

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  Rick G said:

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This was the magic bait... a black Northland Mooska jig/ black Impulse mayfly plastic full-26589-52484-20150201_163821_1.jpg

Nice crappie Rick! That black bug is sure a deadly bait! grin

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I'm guessing red frostee

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Red frostee grin

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Fished Elk lake for first time ever yesterday. Got out and set up at 6:00am. Sat in 8 fow. Jiggin minnow head on a Rattlin Flyer caught a small pike and 17" walleye after sun up around 9 am. Marked a couple other fish in 3 hrs. Packed up and went over to Julia. Didn't move around a lot, got into some sunnies in 10 fow.

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders
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rick is a crappie magnet, probably could catch them on a bare hook! grin

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Fishing in about 15 flow found some bass and at night had to hole hope the whole night but managed to chase some crappies in 30 fow with them coming through at 18-20 fow full-49261-52492-image.jpg

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  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders
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fun! welcome to the site!

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators
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Looks like fun!

Welcome to Fishing Minnesota.

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Looks like fun stuff guys and great reports too.

"Welcome" to the forums jtlewer cool

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Nice fish jtlewer. Welcome to the site.

Noticed your signature "keep your stick on the ice", PM if your interested in meeting up with our group to play some outdoor hockey. wink

We meet up around 6:30-7:00pm on local rinks, wherever the ice is best.

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Thank you all for the welcome, happy to provide any info i can, Glad i found a forum that is active and up to date!

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Haven't been to the site in a week or so, but thought I could pitch in my 2 cents. Caught myself a meal of nice 8 1/2 - 9in gills on the monks property. Very tough to hand auger all my holes as you can't use motorized equipment on their lake. Regardless it was a rewarding trip full-49209-52512-image.jpg

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Gave little mud lake a try. I didn't go there with any expectations of catching any trout, but would appreciate the bonus. Didn't catch any, but the sunnies were active. Surprisingly, the pumpkinseeds were running bigger than the bluegills. Do the trout get fished out pretty quick after opener?

Will be back in cloud town next weekend. Probably gonna give clear lake (across the road from little mud) a try. Was packed with people out there today. Never been there before, but looks good on paper.

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I have a client that lives on Clear Lake. He said there are tons of sunfish, just not much for size.

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Little Mud is not fished out. Was a tough go this year. Fished it 3 times, skunked twice, till I finally found something that worked. Think it will turn on in march when water starts trickling back in a little. Clear is a pretty typical popular shanty town basin gig. Everyone usually packs themselves on top of each other on the one side, and If you get away from it and put in some effort you will do ok. As SA mentioned, overall size structure is pretty small though.

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Out for the afternoon with some friends On a gin clear local lake. Found a good mix of gills, bass and plenty of crappies. full-26589-52552-2015_02_0818.55.27.png

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we fished in 12-20ft, found the gills a bit shallower than the crappies.

  • Official Fishing Report Team - MN
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Nice Job Rick way to get on them nice fish!

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Creators
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Nice fish Rick.

  • 'we have more fun' FishingMN Builders
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nice! looks like fun city! smile

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