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It is very interesting to see more and more crappies turning up. What size are the perch? We thought they would fill the void at the end of the big boom, '09?

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I mentioned the same thing in another thread. They were icing lot's of nice slabs, they were catching at least 2 different year classes of fish as well. More motivation for me to finally make it to URL!

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Well, It is good...the one thing that drew me to Red were the crappies. The tons of big crappies that were caught was a once in a lifetime treat. The lake is a honey hole.

If this is happening again, I suggest a five fish limit.

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We caught 4 crappies last weekend. A 12, 13, 14, and a 16. The we kept 10 perch out of the 13 we caught. 9.5 - 12.5 inches.

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Yes it is. Cookie posted a picture of it with a 14 incher. It had a bite out of the tail in the shape of a small northern's snout. Pretty cool looking fish.

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The tons of big crappies that were caught was a once in a lifetime treat.

Not so, crappie boom #2 is well on its way!!! grin

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The last week we have seen more crappies coming through the fish cleaning house that were caught on Upper Red also. The majority have been in the 13" range (no limits for sure), but the biggest was a 15" that was headed to the taxidermist. There are a lot of good lakes in the area for the slab crappies, but those 15"er's are hard to find & a real beauty!

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Good time for replicas, I have a couple, way cheaper and look great

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Now days they can replicate the fish with a pic from your mobile phone, leave the fish in the lake to swim another day....and you end up showing all your friends/family the pic and not the dead fish anyway!

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Good time for replicas, I have a couple, way cheaper and look great

Well I sure would like to find where you get a repo done cheaper then a Taxi one! Last I checked for a Laker I wanted to do it was about twice the amount. frown

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I suggest a five fish limit.

I'd like to see something like this too. Based off what I've read/heard more times than not people are so happy to catch the elusive red crappie that its automatically kept. Close to home or on their lakes people encourage releasing larger fish but for whatever reasons that thought seems to go away when you 'go up north'

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Close to home or on their lakes people encourage releasing larger fish but for whatever reasons that thought seems to go away when you 'go up north'

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It is very interesting to see more and more crappies turning up. What size are the perch? We thought they would fill the void at the end of the big boom, '09?

Kato, we are seeing some nice perch 9-13" with the average on the larger perch about 10", of course a wide range of year classes showing up. We are still not a jumbo lake but nice to see.

As for the crappie and perch catches there is no re-boom, or crappie comeback happening. Plain and simple we had a no snow year where plowing was easy and rental clusters moved by miles not yards due to ease of the move and ended up in crappie country. By my count, Upper Red Lake has five separate outfitters that have all collided over the crappie grounds in a maze of roads and separate little villages. The majority of anglers are fishing in the deeper crappie country, an area that has gone untouched for years. This year's ease of movement and unprecedented pressure drove the roads out that far, so we are seeing more crappies caught simply because 80% of the anglers are over crappie turf. I have fished the same area for many years and I have not seen so many wheelhouses so far north and west since the peak of the crappie boom. When you truly look at the numbers as a whole we are not catching very many crappies per angler numbers, but the ones that do get caught become uber famous in seconds via social networks and smartphones or promotional attempts by select outfitters to buy one more week of clients. Of course very few are going back in the water as they are viewed as a rare high prize that end up in the heavily circulated cleaning board shots.

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