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Fish biting on South Center? (chisago) Whispering bay?


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anyone catching crappies out on south center I've fished alot in past years out in wispering bay. Any walleye's being caught and where

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Been kind of wondering that myself. Havent really heard much of anything about S. Center. Caught a few eyes out of whispering a few years ago.

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Was acually going to post one today but you guys beat me to it. Have been going out on wed. and sundays and been catching fish but for size not much to speak of. Last sunday fished whispering bay from noon to 3 and cauht a few sunnies and no crappies which surprised me cause couldn't catch a sunnie the week before and had nothin but craps. But we moved to the main lake for some eyes (which havent been productive at all this year) and got 1 10incher and crappies for the rest of the night. did manage to take 8-9 crappies home biggest being shy of 10in smallest being 8in. Hope this may help wink

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Hit my main "eye" spot a week ago that has always held fish in the past and got blanked except for one dink and a couple perch. Not sure what the deal is.

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went out last wednesday 1:30pm-11:00pm. we caught a handful of crappies, 2 keepers and a 21"walleye which was CPR'd. lots of ice cracking and very finiky bite. Fished 16fow ice was 24" thick with 3 inches hard snow on top>

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was out Sunday from 2:00pm-11:00pm. 4 keeper crappies, about 20 tossed back.marked lots of fish. No walleyes. 13 fow and ice was 25 inches.

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I hosted a huge get together out there on Saturday. We had between 150 and 200 people out there, mostly kids. Shallow was the key to catching fish. We were after bluegills as they provide good action for the kids. Anyone fishing deeper than 8 fow struggled to catch fish, while those fishing 6 or less caught a bunch of bluegills. There were some bass and pike caught along with a walleye about 11" long.

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I was out on Friday before the snow started and I was pretty worried. It ended up being pretty nice, but it was still slippery. Plenty of falls, but there was a bit of padding at least.

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was out there on saturday and caught 3 walleye in 13-22ft all were about 12 inches as well as a handful of greedy fat perch. Had a few nice eyes in my hole but they did not make it onto the ice. Pretty frustrating staring at the fish but not being able to hold them... One must have been at least 4 pounds... also once the walleye bite started i must have missed about 8 or so bites which did not make me happy since i normally have a great bite to hook-up ratio. All in all another fun day out there.

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