st cloud St Cloud Fishing Reports

[eyeguy 54]

congrats on a dandy !

[Team Bobberdown]

Went out on a local lake yesterday with a friend and we got into some nice eye's. I took this 25 1/2 incher that was almost 6 pounds. And my friend ended up taking home 4 nice eater eye's. We were banging them in about 6-12 FOW over humps pulling crank baits, perch colored. All in all we caught about 15-16 fish thought the evening.

[Naturboy]

Nice fish Nick

[weedis99]

We did pretty good Saturday. Caught em on rigs, Husky Jerks, and one on a slip. All were caught less then 15ft. Fished top edge of wind blown breaks and points. Caught a bunch of other fish as well. Good day on water.

[Coleman]

Hit the river today. Both above the SCSU dam and above the Sartell dam. I haven't fished above the SCSU dam much, so that was mostly exploratory. But, ended up finding some fish, mostly on the west bank near the hospital and just south near the park. Caught a couple bass and lost what I think was a musky at the boat. 

Then went above the Sartell dam. Fished it for a little while. Stuck to rock piles, find more bass and a walleye. All fish where caught on a jig and a chartreuse shad 3" gulp. 

Going to the Chain tomorrow. Haven't fished it yet this year, so we'll see how it goes. 

Trying to figure out where to go Thursday. Anyone have any ideas? I don't care what I catch, I rarely ever keep anything. 

 

[Team Bobberdown]

Hit a local lake with a friend from church and we plucked a few nice ones out of the lake. Talk about a beautiful day to fish, we were the only boat around. Ended up taking home some walleye and a few crappie. All were caught in about 12 to 16 FOW on leeches.

[Rick G]

Very nice walleye, Nick

[Team Bobberdown]

Why thanks Rick. Going to go fish gull lake this weekend I will let you guys know how it went.

[FishinRivers]

Nice fish Nick 

[Rick G]

Nice fish Nick 

Nice to see you back of the forums

[FishinRivers]

The kids wanted to go with me this time,took them to an easy spot at the St cloud dam..Seems a lot of folks bring the little ones there...That area is easy to walk around ,fairly safe and plenty of little sunnies for the kids to catch.

 

Edited July 11, 2015 by FishinRivers

[Team Bobberdown]

Hit the river this weekend and picked up a few walleye and later in the morning the smallies were on smash mode, couldn't keep them off my line. Also I hooked into about a 20 pound carp, thing took me 10 minutes to get in. Wish I would have got a picture for Jeremy, but I didn't pull my phone out at all for any of the fish. Now I wish I would have.

[Rick G]

Like big Nick, the river was my destination yesterday. Had a very good multi species day, got smallies, suckers, plenty of walleyes, rockbass, northerns, catfish and even a few large mouths  Kept it pretty simple, used jigs and half crawlers, moving with the current, keeping the jig close to the bottom.   We had our best luck in 8-13 ft, got a few deeper and a few more shallow, but the bulk of the fish came  8-13. We found most of the walleyes relating to submerged brush and the down current side of rock piles. The smallies on the otherhand were everywhere, so were the rockbass. 

[Team Bobberdown]

Nice fish Rick. When we going to hit the water to gather. My weekends are free.  

[Team Bobberdown]

Got out on a local lake this weekend, we trolled the weed edges and picked up a few walleye and crappie. Early in the day we fished shallow about 8 -12 fow then when the sun got higher we moved to 12-16 FOW to pick up some fish. All in all it was a nice day on the lake.

[Rick G]

Made it out on the river for a bit today. Weather conditions were less than ideal. The wind was the biggest pain this fine day.  Between the gail force wind, and the front coming through, it made fishing that much harder. Still, we managed to catch enough fish to make my arm tired. We started out tossing lipless cranks to the shorelines looking for signs of life.  Only got a few doing this, but did manage to find a area that ended up holding quite a number of fish.  The walleyes wern't very active, but we got a few anyway The smallies were a bit more willing..... so were the suckers and rockbass. Got my biggest smallie of the summer sofar, just shy of 19in. Jigs and trigger x minnows worked slowly along the bottom worked better than anything else we threw. 

Edited August 3, 2015 by Rick G

[Borch]

Hit a local lake the past two weekends with some success with walleyes.  Several eaters, small walleyes and a couple big ones as well.  Got most fish up shallow trolling cranks after dark in 4-6 fow.   Here's a couple of the biggest ones.  The first is my dad with a dandy.

Last night my neighbor stuck another nice one.

Both are still swimming and I'm will be much fatter cone fall.

[Team Bobberdown]

Boy the bite is tough this time of year. Went out on Saturday morning and we picked up a few eye's and a northern but it was a tough bite. I guess that's why they call it fishing and not catching. All in all it was not to bad on the lake. There there is such a thing as  bad time on the lake. 

[FishinRivers]

Haven't seen too many posts from ya'll.

Still fishing on the river a few times a week.Here's one to throw in to the forums from today.

Jigs and crawlers..kept that bait moving.

JEREMY CAMPBELL

[eyeguy 54]

wading has still been fun in the creek   

[FishinRivers]

Yup...pretty much anywhere  those pockets are...Been wading the miss too..Alot of places I been the last week have those tight areas close to bigger rocks that been producing well.Carp have been a little less eager and in deeper holes as well but they still make it to shore in my net.lol As for other species panfish are spread out and size hasn't been there but once in a while quantity comes at those darn lucky moments.lol..Pretty much sums river fishing for the last week or so for me.

JEREMY CAMPBELL

 

[JeremyCampbell]

Did my usual stop at the river today.The rain and wind weren't helping me any.Spent roughly two hours moving around on shore looking for some willing biters..Changed up tackle every so often.Ended up with a half a dozen bass .Size wasn't what I hoped for but it was something fun to do after work.

 

Edited August 21, 2015 by JeremyCampbell
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[JeremyCampbell]

It was a windy one on the lake.Paul and I trolled around with beetle spins on a lake we haven't fished a lot in.Keeping a consistent speed wasn't happening with this wind today.We ended up catching some crappies,perch and a bass.Nothing with any size value except for the sunfish at 8.5".Not much for water visibility either.We were gonna try another lake but the weather kinda put a stop on that.

Hope some of you get a chance to go fishing this weekend.Have a great weekend .

 

[JeremyCampbell]

This afternoon I ended up doing just fine bobbering a jig and crawler or just a hook with a split shot. Seemed the only way to fish in all this wind is to keep the rod low on an angle so the line would stay somewhat tight.Just the average sized bass for this section of river is all I found today..

[eyeguy 54]

you missed a dandy pig roast dude!   

[JeremyCampbell]

After work I headed  out on a lake today close too an appointment I had to do..Not a whole lot of action  but still caught some fish in the two to three hour time slot I had.

[Team Bobberdown]

Hit a local lake and picked up a nice eye and a smallie. Got him shallow about 9 FOW had a great time.

[Naturboy]

nice fish Nick, hope they start picking up a little more. 

[Rick G]

Been out working on the East coast for the last month or so, that's why I have been so quiet. Have a few days off, then back to work for a while again. 

Andrea and I have made it out a couple times now, river mostly. Been finding good numbers of smallies and lots of little walleyes pretty much everywhere we have been. Today was no exception, fish bit well. Minnow baits have been hot, finding where the fish are holding has been key. Most of the fish we are finding have been relating to deep ambush points were they can wait for food to come by. Rock shorelines with spines that come out to deeper water or fallen trees have been best. 

[Borch]

It should really start picking up soon.  I love the fall bite.  Nice fish Nick and Rick!