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Big Stone - Memorial Day W.E.


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Heading out to Big Stone for the coming weekend & wondering how fishing has been? Going to be up by Mallard Point area & any help would be appreciated as we are new to the lake. Tried the opener this year & had the same luck as 99.9% of the boats out there.... Thanks!

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Me and my buddy and the families are heading out there also. I just looked at the weather and it looks good so far. I hope it is nice because my wife wasn't big on going there due to the lack of things to do other than fishing. I hope the bite is better than opener out there. If anyone knows of fun stuff to do in the area, please let me know. Good luck.

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if it is to windy you could try mini golf at the rv park.or go to the muesum they have a graet bird display or you can always drink

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Planning to hit up Mallard Point for a bit to do a bit of the latter... maybe have a fire, enjoy the weather (hopefully), etc...

Is the walleye bite on still/yet?

Also, any place anyone can suggest to take a couple kids in the boat to catch anything? Pan fish, whatever...

Thanks...

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panfish in big stone are tough to come by mostly by accident.most fish are coming off the docks in the evenings. but the weather has not be good to try a daytime bite, to windy

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sounds like a winner.. thanks for the info. Hopefully we can find a few.

ps - is it ever calm out there??? ha!

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its calm right now but it is raining. been raining on and off all day.

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to follow up the on the weekend, a buddy & I fished off & on Sat, Sun & Monday & came up with about a dozen sheephead & 2 walleyes... one 14.5" and one 19". Let them both go as the action was just not very hot up by Mallard Point where we were. Have heard of people catching more fish at night. Can anyone turn me on to a couple spots to try this up by Mallard point? Bobber & minnow or trolling? This was only our second weekend fishing this lake...

thanks! Hope everyone else did better.

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Picked up three 'eyes fishing from one of the DNR docks on the East(??) side Sunday evening. Fished for about two hours and all were in that 17-18" range, but then the Sheepshead moved in and I moved out!!

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