I'll start off with crappies since thats the only fish I want right now oh and White Bass! Well I went to one of my favorite fishing holes yesterday to be dissapointed. Lake Waconia has always been a good spot for me around this time for some big crappies. Yesterday instead of crappies biting my jig left to right it was perches. (I kept some and made some fish laab) I know already if I go to Lake Rebecca I will catch some crappies but there too little to keep for a meal. I'm not the one to tend to keep whatever I catch and I hate watching people do it too. Thats the reason I don't like to go there anymore. I just get pissed when I see people taking such small crappies home only knowing that its going into the freezer never to be seen again. I guess my point in this tread is what Lake has worked for you for some good size crappies? I might try Bush Lake next weds. Or White Bear Lake also.
lake minnetonka was the hot spot last week. Get a boat and fish in small openings. Bald eagle by white bear is biting like crazy (lil ones only unless you have a boat)...
i haven't gone fish'in for a while...wait!?! Are you posting while at work Pete...guess your not busy at all..
nope its really quite. Yang yeah I want some good hand size ones. somewhere in between 7"-12" inches is what I'm after.
If you dont mind a drive normally all the lakes around chisago city usually are pretty good id try chisago lake or lindstrom both usually produce real good
i don't do much fishing for panfish locally so I don't have any good suggestions. I haven't been fishing much these past few years - used to be on the water all the time. bass, pike, and muskie mainly
oh man i fish everyday in the summer! go down to the dock in the morning, catch a few bass, go back to sleep till the afternoon lol. fishing it ftw
Pete, Try Centerville lake. It was biting there early this month. I'm sure you'll get some there. Oh, What are you using? I'm using gulp power bait minnow 2" or 3". Thats a hot jig for crappies.
:laugh: :laugh: "Honey, I swear, these fishes need a little spice in their life, use hot cheetos damnit"
when fishing for crappies....try to ask around for where people go...then hit the breeding areas....that'll help you out a lot...also...look for structure...that helps too..and fish an area that you know...sometimes you'll get the big ones out if you're patient...during spring time the big ones tends to do a "shy-bite" using a smaller bobber and smaller hook tends to get them and a really active minnow too..but yea..well anyways...this summer me and lue are most likely to go fishing a lot...bass opener! welcome to join just let us know dao
Lake Rebbecca was practically a hmong new year, so many people there it was crazy, it's great for little kids and thats it. Although there was a dnr officer there the other day that said there going to start to use as a musky farm or something. I was up at cabelas and they said minnetonka is supposedly biting like crazy for crappie, he said to hit the shallow muddy areas.
well after work I'm heading down to White Bear Lake since its just up the road. Hercules and I will be going. Anyone else want to join in?
hwy 8 over by chisago is hitting good. On the weekends, the shoreline is packed with families. Rabbit and Herc will blend in fine
so here I was fishing at Sucker lake today. I forgot my tackle box and was waiting for Herc to come by so I could use his. I had half a dozen worms left from last time we went fishing and thank God they were still alive. So I get a nibble and then SLAM!! I was like man this must be a bass. Its too big for a sunfish.........then I land him! HOLY SH@#$@*(%!!!!!!!!! I still couldn't believe it. I got home and measured it and it was 10 1/2 inches!! State record is 11.5 oh man I was so close. Here are more pictures.
Don't I need the original to make a replica? I have never mounted a fish before. This is probably going to be my frist one.
you got the tape measure upside down...it is 10.5 CM not inches... You look horrible w/o Make-up...lol
Wow, nice catch..I never caught a sunny that big before..you know it's gonna cost over 100 bucks to get that thing mounted right??
humm.....went to Minihaha Falls for some carp action...didn't get any because they weren't up the stream yet. Did catch dace, walleye, and sheephead. L. Rebecca was fun back then. Should still have good musky action. I've landed a handful there w/ lots of pics. The season will come again.
My dad went to rainy river this weekend and got a few 45-60 inch sturgeon, he kept a 45 incher. I just got off the lake and the crappies were really biteing good.Im going to have to start saving up for the next fish fry at the ice race
I got out for an hour or 2 tonight, didn't fish much, missed all the fish, mainly to get the wife a little more used to driving a 200 hp boat. We talked about going out for opener, maybe we'll heaed out friday night, maybe not, been fishing walleye all year, so it's not a big deal to me.
WOW!! I want a sturgeon. I snagged 1 last time at Taylors falls by accident with my rooster tail and man it was pretty fun!! It snagged right at the tip of the nose. I thought you can't keep sturgeons? Or is it for only us city folks?
On rainy river you can, I think its concidered border waters so the rules are different. They have been fishing walleyes up there for the last few weeks , so im guessing the rules are different.
border waters are different. I need to get back up to the northwest angle, haven't been in a few years - got a 48" muskie on one of my last trips (lost an even bigger one too)
OK its that time of the year again. I have been waiting and waiting for it to warm up. So where are the hot spots for crappies this year? Anyone gone out yet?
i mainly fish the east side of the lake - wayzata, browns, smiths, gideons bay areas. i've had a lot of early season crappy luck going into the little man-made channels that are all around the lake
just got home from taylors fall fishing for white bass, but damn, nothing. then i stoped by chisago and decided to fish for some crappies since it was on the way home. caught my limit and more. the average crappies were from 5-9 inches so it was an ok size... but who ever wants to go get some big crappies should go to rush lake. my dad went this past weekend and caught so much, averaging between 6-14 inches.. but then again, its like the hmong new year over there and its about 45min to an hour drive from brooklyn
Geez. You know what gets me made is when they start stealing fish. This year no mister nice guy I'm going to report every singal one of them. I'm sick of them counting there kids as an extra 10 when the kids didn't even fish. Or when they reach there 100 yes I said 100 limit crappie. They come back the next day. Thats why the inner city lakes are so dried up. I bet its like that in Waconia.
ahaha yeah, i know what you mean. one of the guys got a ticket yesterday because i think he didn't have a fishing license or took too many fishes. i don't know which one it was because i was on the boat. but damn the dnr guy was strict. he checked everyone and left. so we came off the shore and soon enough he pulled up to us and ask for id's and checked out boat. good thing we only kept the big ones which was about 25-40 crappies and there was 7 of us.
I completely agree. I don't understand what you would do with a 5 gallon bucket completely full of panfish (that are usually way too small to be kept for eating imo). I fish for sport, occassionally I'll keep a limit of panfish to eat but that's maybe like once or twice a season
i feel you guys on this one... that's why we have to travel so far to get any type of fish. it's pretty much dried up in the twin cities!
Went down to the dock yesterday and pulled in probably 150+ crappies, catch and release. they were biting like nuts. Every cast I had one on, it was awesome. Here is the biggest one I caught.
