Red Lake & LOW Weekend report

[treeclimber]

Fished Red on Friday. Two of us fished from 3:00 till 7:00 and only were able to muster up 3 crappies. We fshed out of Rogers access. I guess according to the owners the bite had been pretty good much of the week. I saw a bucket full of crappies that were caoght the night before. The guy who caught them said he was out about 1 1/2 miles in 13 ft of water. He said he caught them between 5 and 6:00. As usual I missed the best day. Seems I am always a day late and a dollar short there.<BR>Saturday 5 of us went to LOW. We accessed the lake at Morris point as we heard that the most consistant bite had been there most of the winter. As you know the weather was changing from Friday afternoon till Sat evening. When we got on the lake the winds were blowing NW 15 to 25 mph. Not fun setting up three portables in that kind of weather. We were in 31 ft of water. The fish were really cooperative at first but then shut down. We had some good action for 1/2 hour spurts all day long. We ended up keeping 35 fish, with the largets being a 16" suager. Most of the fish we caught were saugers. Small pink and glow crappie jigs were the ticket on the dead sticks. A med size Zip lure in the glow white and red was the best bet on the jigging pole. In fact I caught most of my fish on that. All in all not a bad day considering the weather conditions. Also as the day went on you couldn't buy a fish on the dead stick only on the jigging poles.

[bturck]

Treeclimber: Thanks for the report. Glad you got into some fish. Sounds like Red was a bit slow. I appreciate the update on the colors on LOW headed up about 530am with my wife. Hope to get into some fish to give her a feel for this great lake. I'll put a report good, or bad on the screen most likely on Thursday as it will be late Wed night when we return. Bill

[dougger222]

On Red on Thursday night my father and I put 16 crappies in the bucket off of Rogers. On Friday and Saturday fishing half days off of Zippel in 27.5 ft. of water did very well with the eyes biggest 4lb. 3oz. with several between one and two pounds. Didn't get enough of the Red lake crappies so we tried it again on Saturday night. Got 15 more got two that went 1lb. 15oz. Didn't move on any days either good fishing for us I guess! Guys fishing by us had two here and two there.