Jump to content
  • GUESTS

    If You  want access  to member only forums on FM, You will need to Sign-in or  Sign-Up now .

    This box will disappear once you are signed in as a member.

Recommended Posts

i think i may head down to pepin sat and try trolling. anyone offer any help? i haven't fished pepin much. i read in a previous post that maybe shallow by the willows can someone clue me in to where to look for the willows. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I would go very, very, very early in the day if you are going on Saturday. It will be a zoo out there with the nice weather. I have always done the best trolling #7 Rap cranks on the WI side in 10--13 FOW. Since the water is extremely dark use bright colors, ie firetiger, clown ect...... Let me know how you do. I haven't been down there for a couple weeks.

Matt

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Make sure you get out early, its going to be crazy with boats this weekend. This weekend is Lake City Waterski days, nutting makes the fish bite better than a few hundred jet skis tearing up the water. Go early the ramps will be full.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

then just don't plan on going any nice weekend then cause it's always a zoo. try during the week

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I fished the spot across form Lacupolis yesterday. Got there early.

We were the first boat up there in the morning. We no more than got the lines in (jig and a crawler) and had two fish imediatley. I think Little Bo Peep lost all her sheep in Lake Pepin. Sheepie after sheepie.

Switched to leeches and got one small sauger.

We tried that long drift a couple dozen times. Lindy rigs, spinner rigs, and jigs. Only managed that one sauger, one carp, and one channel cat, and about fifty sheepsheads.

We saw people trolling floating Rapalas on three ways but they weren't doing much either. There wasn't very much traffic at all. Maybe the weather report scared them away. It was supposed to be 80 percent chance of thundershowers. But that fizzled out and it ended up being a vey nice day.

Since the bite was slow on Pepin we went down below Wabasha. We went into the second cut to the left. It's a small side channel that winds through the woods and ends up down by Alma. Anybody know what that is called?

We did good in there. It's a little scary with all the dead trees in the way, some times the electric motor wouldn't have enough power to navigate around so we had to start the gas to avoid being tangled up in the wood.

But it was definatley worth it. We got a 21 inch walleye plus some bass and northerns. Nothing too big but still some good action.

All in all a very fun trip.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.


  • Your Responses - Share & Have Fun :)

    • leech~~
      Nope not me.  May want to go nextdoor and ask around?  
    • smurfy
      Looks to me like Leech brought his chair home!!😅😆
    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.