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Post by budd on Apr 24, 2017 9:57:53 GMT -5
LMAO, sure. Will give you exact spot. Squaw Lake, MN. Round Lake north bridge.
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Post by esshup on Apr 24, 2017 10:54:55 GMT -5
My son and friends went out last week when temps warmed up and got these. Temps dropped back off and the crappie moved back out into the lake, got snow yesterday. NICE mess of Black Crappies (and one lone Yellow Perch)!!
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 24, 2017 12:09:54 GMT -5
LMAO, sure. Will give you exact spot. Squaw Lake, MN. Round Lake north bridge. Thank you. With this info i know if i ever get to MN there are crappy there to be cought if in the rigbt place. That is a great mess of fish and some good eating. Congratulations.
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 24, 2017 12:13:14 GMT -5
This phone will not let photobucket upload at the lake at all so no PICTURES. You will have to dream what thwy looked like. Got a doz minneys yesterday and went to see if i could find some crappy around 2ish. (I know too late or early,crappy dont.bite in the middle of the day) only took crappy poles with me. One with a jig and mimmow combo that has been deadly in the past and a twist bobber with hook (no sinker) Tried the downed trees acc lake with not a bump. Went 18 in to 6 feet. Went around point to an other aera with some lilys where i have got them befor but nothing there. Spent about an hour in these two places to make sure i did not miss anything. So last chance spot was the inlet. The inlet comes from a 5 acre lake and the water is warm when it enters my lake. Well i hit the crappy. They were in the nonemerged lilys about 4 to 6 foot of water. Tried in closer and out deeper but the 4/6 foot is where they were. They did NOT WANT the artificial mimmey. Even tho the water was choppy from wind and it was on a bobber. Fish some where between 1 and 2 hrs. Got 16 and no more. There is a piere that comes out at the inlet so you have to fish one side or the other so i moved to the other side and zilch. They were just in that one spot about 15 foot accrossby 30 foot long All nice for here. 2@ 10 1/2,2@ 10 1/4, 3@ 10,2@ 9 1/2 rest at 9 3/4 in. All fat,thick and healthy. Made for a fun day. Finally got an upload to photobucket
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Post by colts1888 on Apr 25, 2017 10:18:41 GMT -5
Happy to report that my handling technique has not decimated the eel river smallmouth fishery. Still hammering smallies every trip I can get out. Only problem now is finding the time to get out with 3 kids in baseball. Doesn't leave much time when 6 of 7 evenings are spent at the ball field. Here is one of the better ones last time i was out on Sunday. 16 incher. A lot of guys out fishing lately from all the pics i have seen on my facebook page and all are having success on the smallies. I may be able to sneak out later today for a short trip, otherwise it looks like thursday is my next and only free night.
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 26, 2017 1:47:57 GMT -5
Went out with my fishing buddy today. Headed to inlet and fished same as saturday. The aera they were in srunk and did not bite as fast. After they stopped we eased on around and found a few on the downed trees. It had to be bigger stuff going in to deep water with vegatation. Any thing that did not have veg or go in to deep water was a zip. Finished up by going to other end of lake on wood with veg in deep water and got some till we ran out of minneys. They would NOT hit a stale,non active minnow. Had to be real active. They seamed to be a little deeper today also. Set bobber at 3-4 foot. We got 34 fish,5 good gills rest crappyn 6 at 9 3/4, 1 @ 11 and rest in the 10 inch range. I know these are long but my intention is to give info to an inexperienced fisherman looking to get a mess of fish and the way (I ) do it.
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Post by duff on Apr 26, 2017 18:16:02 GMT -5
Went out with my fishing buddy today. Headed to inlet and fished same as saturday. The aera they were in srunk and did not bite as fast. After they stopped we eased on around and found a few on the downed trees. It had to be bigger stuff going in to deep water with vegatation. Any thing that did not have veg or go in to deep water was a zip. Finished up by going to other end of lake on wood with veg in deep water and got some till we ran out of minneys. They would NOT hit a stale,non active minnow. Had to be real active. They seamed to be a little deeper today also. Set bobber at 3-4 foot. We got 34 fish,5 good gills rest crappyn 6 at 9 3/4, 1 @ 11 and rest in the 10 inch range. I know these are long but my intention is to give info to an inexperienced fisherman looking to get a mess of fish and the way (I ) do it. What kind of bait?
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 27, 2017 1:32:48 GMT -5
Went out with my fishing buddy today. Headed to inlet and fished same as saturday. The aera they were in srunk and did not bite as fast. After they stopped we eased on around and found a few on the downed trees. It had to be bigger stuff going in to deep water with vegatation. Any thing that did not have veg or go in to deep water was a zip. Finished up by going to other end of lake on wood with veg in deep water and got some till we ran out of minneys. They would NOT hit a stale,non active minnow. Had to be real active. They seamed to be a little deeper today also. Set bobber at 3-4 foot. We got 34 fish,5 good gills rest crappyn 6 at 9 3/4, 1 @ 11 and rest in the 10 inch range. I know these are long but my intention is to give info to an inexperienced fisherman looking to get a mess of fish and the way (I ) do it. What kind of bait? The gills came on redwigglers hooked twice in the head with a size 12 hook, the crappy were live minney on a size 6 gold hook hooked thru the eyes. They would not hit artificial minney i have had good luck with.
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Post by budd on Apr 27, 2017 9:29:08 GMT -5
Went out with my fishing buddy today. Headed to inlet and fished same as saturday. The aera they were in srunk and did not bite as fast. After they stopped we eased on around and found a few on the downed trees. It had to be bigger stuff going in to deep water with vegatation. Any thing that did not have veg or go in to deep water was a zip. Finished up by going to other end of lake on wood with veg in deep water and got some till we ran out of minneys. They would NOT hit a stale,non active minnow. Had to be real active. They seamed to be a little deeper today also. Set bobber at 3-4 foot. We got 34 fish,5 good gills rest crappyn 6 at 9 3/4, 1 @ 11 and rest in the 10 inch range. I know these are long but my intention is to give info to an inexperienced fisherman looking to get a mess of fish and the way (I ) do it. Nice mess of fish there. Our fish movements have been pushed back, got two inchs of snow yesterday morning and has not gotten above freezing since Monday night, ponds are starting to ice over again.
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 28, 2017 1:44:01 GMT -5
Went out with my fishing buddy today. Headed to inlet and fished same as saturday. The aera they were in srunk and did not bite as fast. After they stopped we eased on around and found a few on the downed trees. It had to be bigger stuff going in to deep water with vegatation. Any thing that did not have veg or go in to deep water was a zip. Finished up by going to other end of lake on wood with veg in deep water and got some till we ran out of minneys. They would NOT hit a stale,non active minnow. Had to be real active. They seamed to be a little deeper today also. Set bobber at 3-4 foot. We got 34 fish,5 good gills rest crappyn 6 at 9 3/4, 1 @ 11 and rest in the 10 inch range. I know these are long but my intention is to give info to an inexperienced fisherman looking to get a mess of fish and the way (I ) do it. Nice mess of fish there. Our fish movements have been pushed back, got two inchs of snow yesterday morning and has not gotten above freezing since Monday night, ponds are starting to ice over again. From my experience on this lake things are ahead of normal. Usually it is mid may befor we get into the crappy of this size in this manner.
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Post by budd on Apr 28, 2017 7:28:32 GMT -5
Yes things were ahead of schedule here also, walleye have already run, was just seeing suckers in the creeks and rivers, spearing was set to open may 1 and I think it would have been to late for sucker. This cold front should now make spearing a reality. Supposed to get above freezing today.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 28, 2017 12:56:03 GMT -5
Bluegills are spawning in my ponds. Got 14 big males for the fryer and let the females go. Caught a couple bass but let them go. Worms and a beetle spin were the ticket today.
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 29, 2017 12:03:55 GMT -5
Got some redears and big bull bluegills today. Man can they put up a fight. Love the ones you can just barely get your hand around.😎
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Post by onebentarrow on Apr 29, 2017 19:25:16 GMT -5
Got some redears and big bull bluegills today. Man can they put up a fight. Love the ones you can just barely get your hand around.😎 They are fun. Hope it was warmer there then it was here. I got 17 crappy in the spitten rain wind and cold. I had on sweats,insulated snowmobile pants,lined shirt with a good rain coat. Did not get cold but it was lousy weather but the fishing was fun.
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Post by steiny on Apr 30, 2017 20:24:54 GMT -5
Tore up a mess of big crappie down at Rend Lake (southern IL) earlier this week, our group got 82 on Wed & 29 on Thur. These fish were full of eggs and ready to spawn, some probably already had spawned.
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Post by colts1888 on May 8, 2017 19:32:08 GMT -5
Finally got a free evening tonight with no ball games for my kids. Decided to take my 9 year old catfishing out on the river as both the eel and wabash are in pretty rough shape. Imagine my surprise when my son brings this to the net. His first ever walleye and it's a 25 incher. Caught on about 5 crawlers fishing on the bottom.
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Post by Woody Williams on May 8, 2017 20:25:35 GMT -5
Tell that young fisherman congratulations from me! That is a nice one and some great eating.
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Post by colts1888 on May 8, 2017 21:01:21 GMT -5
Thanks woody. I actually wanted to release the fish but my son wasn't having any of that lol. I prefer the smaller ones to eat and like to let the bigger ones go but not this time. I usually catch a few walleye and sauger in this area every year but it's normally in the fall and on jigs and not in chocolate milk water, so this was a surprise for sure. It was only 2 inches shorter then my personal best walleye which i had mounted so not a bad first walleye to catch.
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Post by nfalls116 on May 8, 2017 21:13:45 GMT -5
Thanks woody. I actually wanted to release the fish but my son wasn't having any of that lol. I prefer the smaller ones to eat and like to let the bigger ones go but not this time. I usually catch a few walleye and sauger in this area every year but it's normally in the fall and on jigs and not in chocolate milk water, so this was a surprise for sure. It was only 2 inches shorter then my personal best walleye which i had mounted so not a bad first walleye to catch. Catch many saugeye that way? I never get walleye here just usually saugeye or sauger and also generally in fall with artificials
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Post by colts1888 on May 8, 2017 21:46:57 GMT -5
Dont know that i have ever caught a saugeye but last year i caught probably 10 or so saugers. About the same number of walleye too but last year i only had 2 that were keeper size. The years prior though i have caught some nice size walleye. A couple 25 inchers, a 27 which is my personal best, and a lot in the 18 to 21 inch range. The 27 actually came out of the eel which is another reason i mounted it, that river doesn't have many eyes and was quite aways upstream from where it joins the wabash. My sons is the first that we have got on live bait, all mine are almost always on 1/8th oz jig heads with a twister tail. I always do better when the river is up a bit too, but not usually when it's this muddy. Right now the eel is dropping pretty quick but very muddy, the wabash will eventually will rise even more once mississinewa resovoir starts releasing all the water it's been holding back. When that happens the water will spill into the eel and back up, the eel should be clearing up by then and i expect the sauger and eye bite could be pretty good when that happens. Im looking forward to it. Could be this weekend.
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