Snowbank lake

[side_laker]

Heading up to snowbank Friday looking to catch lakers and walleyes. I have never been on the lake in the summer. Anyone have some advice 

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

walleyes in the dark, lakers i am looking for information.  I go there evey year but still dont know how or y we catch one or two

 

[Wanderer]

Never fished it myself but have always heard the best laker water is on the BW side of the lake.

[SkunkedAgain]

Excuse my ignorance, but I thought that all of Snowbank is a 25hp motor lake? I haven't paddled through it in close to twenty years though...

[Wanderer]

Snowbank is partially in the B dub so yeah, should be motorized with the 25 hp limit.  Couldn’t tell you if the non B dub portion has a limit.  
 

I literally drove to it on a rainy day just to look at it.  It never got as much press as B side for Lakers while I was hitting that scene hard.  Sometimes I heard it called Snowblank lake so I didn’t feel the need to try it.  I did hear larger baits worked better there and they didn’t cat and mouse as much as the Lakers do in B side.

 

Just bait shop talk, no personal experience.

[JBMasterAngler]

I believe the 25 HP limit only applies to   BWCA portion of the lake. It’s a super cool lake, but I have yet to catch a laker out of it. Trolled cranks once, and thought I finally caught one, only to be disappointed by a sucker! 

[monstermoose78]

Snowbank is a fun lake to fish but the catching is really slow mostly. I caught two lakers both about 16 inches out 20-25 trips there.

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

can i get out there with a wheel house and I am fine with paying a access fee.  If so who do i go through.

 

[monstermoose78]

Smittie’s 

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

Well finally getting a minute to write up a little about snowbank .   We caught a little pout in the dark.   I ended up in 65 feet of water, though i was shallower but it was a school of baitfish under us when we checked quick friday night we thought we were in 30 feet or so and setup the castle.    We had laker action all day long on saturday.   1 chased a tube jig for 30 min, then an airplane jig for 15 more.   Finally drew a stike and caught it on a micro jig tipped with a plastic.     I called in an order of wax worms, they were delivered in the afternoon and we caught a 2nd laker on a micro jig with a wax worm.   I will post pictures when i can get them on my computer.   I would guess we marked 10 -12 lake trout and drew the 2 hits, which resulted in fish on.  I dont know squat about laker fishing but not sure what we had going on or how to get them to bite.   Doing my research cause the action lasted most of the morning and then again for 1-2 hours in the afternoon.   I had dead sticks with dead and live minnows out, tip up in shallower water, bait all over the water column.   I had 5 kids with me so we had lots of lines out.   My oldest boy went shallow to find the feeding fish, he mainly fished in about 30 feet but had a tipup all day in 10 feet.

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

4 hours ago, Fishing DA Range and nort said:

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[Fishing DA Range and nort]

dunno what that was.   But we happened to catch the fish on my ultra light crappie rods, 4lb test line.   Kind of fun, I recommend you try it.    Unless you have expensive rods, these were bending at the point of snapping.   You do not need expensive rods and gear.  I did have a few spooled up with 6 or 8, but just used my walleye gear mainly, which is mainly 4 pound line, on med lights rods.

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

17 hours ago, Fishing DA Range and nort said:

here was one.  

[Better Than Working!]

Hard for me to think of anything more fun than Lakers through the ice!

[delcecchi]

pretty hard to top lakers from a canoe...

[Fishing DA Range and nort]

i skipped the first weekend since 2021.  My kid went out and caught 4 pike sunday.   Shallow.