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Anyone been out?.......bays??......thickness??...........bite?>..........saw some people in seton.....dunno how thick though?...any comments and info woul dbe greatly apreciated......

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got our house on excelsior bay today!! it s about 7-8 inches. there is a large ridge on the east side due to the fact that the city left a weed cutting machine in too long and it froze in, they had to run a barge across the bay to st albans, not sure how that section will freeze over. the ice in the path of the barge is only 2-3 inches!

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I fished on Gray's Bay today and it was pretty bad. Lots of dinky perch. I drilled a series of holes from the 28 foot deep spot in the center eastward until it was 12 feet. No sunnies, no crappies, no wallies. Ice was a good 9 inches. One guy caught a couple little pike off the weedline. A few others got skunked.

Me, I'm heading out to Bush lake first thing in the AM with big sucker minnows.

-Mike

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how'd you do on bush lake today? we had 18 flags hit on minnetonka today. lots of 4 wheelers running around, some pulling decent sized houses.

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Tonka:

Spent the day on Bush, from 8 AM to 5 pm. Had 9 hits, caught 6. Best was a fat 25", all others were 18 to 20". Fun!! Best part was seeing one on my fishfinder come up and hit the sucker minnow.

Ice is a good 6 to 7". A few guys out at night setting up for crappie.

Will be out there again tomorrow with my kid so he can get his first northern.

-Mike

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I fished Gray's bay this evening from 4 to 8 in 17ft. South of the deep hole in the middle. One bite, marked about a dozen but they didn't like what I was selling. Good ice... bad fishing.

Tonka, where were you fishing on the lake today?

GL

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were you fishing the nw bay at bush lake? i was on excelsior, going back tomorrow am to try some morning fishing. i love the name, garagelogic

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I looked at Excelcior last night. Only 2 houses out. Send an update on how you did.

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i am the gray house on excelsior. its owned by about 6 guys so i might not be the one out there at any given time. we had 11 flags yesterday from 10am- 430 pm. most were small northerns but had one #6 northern. good luck!

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How about Wayzata Bay? I'm trying to get out tonight I have to decide where I want to go!

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Fished Gray's on Sunday and last night. I had no luck. 3 hours on Sunday and 2 hours last night. Spoke to many fisherman on Sunday and nobody was doing anything on Grays or Wayzata.

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its been real dead on excelsior this past week. today it was just a lake on top of the ice that made it a little hard to walk around out there

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I fished Wayzata and then Gray's till 2:30AM last night. One small Crappie... I'm staying off the lake until things get better.

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Just talked to a fellow co-worker he was out on Spring Park Bay to check on his shack & ice conditions. He said no luck on any fish but there is 8"-11" of ice on the bay so it varies in thickness all over.

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Went out on Tues. looking for crappies, with all the water on the lake I could check the depth as I walked.I tried all the spots where I have caught fish in the past and I never marked any fish suspended.I checked depths from 8-32'. Went out again on wed. to a different bay. My two favorite spots are at 22' and 30'. Nothing at 22'but I did catch 3 crappies at 30'. They were holding very tight to the bottom and were very tough to entice.I think I will wait untill I hear they are biting before I go out again. Good luck finding them.(maybe I should have tried deeper?)

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