Does anyone ice fish crane sand and/or namakan

[Sushilicious]

Done alot of summer walleye fishing on the chain but I never here of ppl ice fishing the chain. I know William's narrows is nothing to mess with. Just seems odd that for how great that fishery is no one hard water fishes it.

[Capt. Quicksteel]

Used to winter fish Sand Point quite a bit. We had to access it by going over Mukooda and then fish Grassy Bay. I don't even know if you can still do that but it was an easy ride with a snow machine. Haven't done it in years but it was good. Be careful of all the various narrows!  Mukooda itself is a place where a guy used to be able to catch some lake trout.

[sheephead2]

Does Sand have any lake trout in it on American side ?

[h8go4s]

Not according to the DNR.

 

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/showreport.html?downum=69061700

[sheephead2]

I think DNR  survey also says the same for Basswood and I caught lakers on it

Sand has deep water just wondered if anyone has caught them be fun to try it on hard water 

 

[Sushilicious]

Thx Fer the response capt. Wish I had a snowmobile so I could try one of the other lakes on the chain.

[Sushilicious]

Ya those dnr surveys can be iffy on some lakes. Idk if you've heard of winchester lake. It's in between n south of Myrtle n echo. Never fished it but the stocking report looks decent. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/lake.html?id=69069000

[crappie D]

You must be willing to travel a bit on sled if you're looking for lakers. Use crane as a jumping off point to fish Canada waters. Lac la croix is home for the big ones. Rob Scott caught a 52 pounder through the ice a couple yrs ago. This area is definitely snowmobile country.

[Wanderer]

On 2/8/2017 at 10:50 AM, Capt. Quicksteel said:

Mukooda itself is a place where a guy used to be able to catch some lake trout.

 

It does have lakers but I think they closed it for harvest.  I thought I read it was due to those lakers being a different strain and getting fished down a little too much.

 

That laker Rob caught was a hawg!  Too bad he got it taken away.