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Was wondering if anyone fishes tulibees around the Avon, Richmond area. The DNR net surveys on Middle Spunk Lake looked good, if anyone knows any good tulibee lakes please let me know. I know they are starting to bite around my home near Ottertail.

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I can stear you to a lake that has a fantastic Tulibee population. It is about 75 miles North West of St. Cloud the lake name is Pillager. It is a very small lake at about 250 acres and the DNR data shows an unbelievable Tulibee population. My friend and I did some lake hopping this weekend and just selected this lake at random with no data before we fished it. We caught some very nice Tulibee. For those that keep this fish I am assuming it is smoked, correct?

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Thanks but I was just lookin for lakes right around st. cloud. I go to school down here. I have fished several good lakes in OT county, but was just wonderin bout around here. Yes you do smoke them and I think they are delicious. They are a very oily fish which makes them good smokers.

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Koronis and Schroeder (Blasius) are two lakes that hold a ample amount of tullibee's locally.

Pillager lake is in Cass county take County rd #1 about 5 miles North of Pillager. The access is on the South side in a county park. There also is a creek on the N end to be aware of, it feeds in from Rice lake and it does produce open water in front of it. Just a heads up for anyone ventureing out there.

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Middle Spunk does have tulibees although I don't know of or heard of anyone that targets them. We used to catch a few while targeting crappies years ago. The ones we caught were nice.

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Icehawk is correct on the location of Pillager. We were simply coming home from fishing some smaller laked and picked this off the map. It is choke full of tulibee. I also mananaged a 9" crappie mixed in with the schools of tulibee.

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mr pike....any tips on catching tullibee... baits used? depth of water, do you fish near the bottom or do they suspend? any help is appreciated. thanks! kander65

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If someone goes on Pillager be super careful for bad spots in the ice. Not sure if it is spring action or from schooling fish but there can be random thin spots to really ruin your day. 2 feet to 3 inches in a couple steps.

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any specific areas where I should watch for thin ice on pillager? thanks

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There is a creek flowing through it starting on the North end. This lake goes out pretty fast. It can be like fishing on a mine field. Be careful on this one. It is a small lake.

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Tough to call on the bad spots as they seem to change year to year thats what kind of directs me to feel that schooling fish are the culprit. Wish I could be more specific but too random to call.

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kander65, I have no real expertise to offer as this is really the first experience I have had with Tulibee/Cisco. For the time we were on Pilliger I used wax works and crappie jigs. The depth we fished was 36-38 feet and the fish did come in suspended at 20-24 feet. Tried minnows but not real success. The bite also seemed to be a mornign bite as it stopped after 10:30. Concerning the ice we drove a full size F-150 on the ice and folled the road out and then ventured away from the crowd. Wish I would have know about the ice issue before. The reason we drove was due to the fact that there were locals out there with full sized trucks.

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mr pike when were you up on pilliger fishing tullibee, and where were you fishing. you said you drove on. do you think you could drive on with a 4 wheeler a couple days from now. if not a 4 wheeler could you walk out or is too far. let me know by tuesday afternoon if possible

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Big Eyes, the lake is not that large I would guess it to be under 500 acre lake. We were out two weekends ago and the ice we drilled was 24 inches or more. At the time there was a plowed road that went out from the access and to the left. We followed this road out from the access and broke off to the right. Fished in 36 feet of water about 100-150 yards off of the shoreline. I have only the one time experience on this lake and would defer any comments on the safety of the ice to someone local. Some of the commets posted give the impression that ice on this lake is suspect. Be safe and if you get out post results.

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Bucktail,

Best Tullie lake around there is Little Birch lake over by Grey Eagle.

I would concentrate on the deep hole out from the access or get permission and fish some of the deep neck down areas fruther up the lake. Nice craps in there too!!!!

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