Minnesota Lake Reports 2016

[punch]

I got out for a couple hours this morning before work. Water is was around 70 and I was expecting a good topwater bite.. but nope. Nothing. The wind started to pick up so I tied on a big kaitech swimbait with a 4ot weighted hook and I got some nice bites. Caught a nice 3.6lber and a few 2's. Only was out for about 2 hours.  

[NathanDLTH]

Very nice! Glad you could get out. 

[pitchin fool]

12 hours ago, NathanDLTH said:

Lol no 7 lbers.. The biggest bass I have encountered fishing is a 5 lb bass yesterday. If I do encounter a 7 lb bass while in Minnesota I'll be getting measurements for a mount lol! 

Heres a vid of the guy I used to get out with quite a bit.  He recently moved to Wisconsin in hopes of getting to the southern states to fish all year long later.  This is what MN big bass look like.  I can attest that that is indeed all of 7.5!!  If you watch his other vids, I am Mr. P on some of the titles. 

 

[Fiske]

Wow!
Well there yah go Ronnie!
Me thinks you spent to much time chasing MN walleyes.

[geneoh]

Went out late morning and fished for about 2 hours today on Lake Johanna and got skunked. First time fishing Lake Johanna so I was trying to figure it out. No bites until my last spot and had a 2.5-3 pounder on but she jumped and shook the hook. Would like to get back out there next week and try again. 

EDIT: Anyone who's fished Lake Johanna want to go out with me next week?

[pitchin fool]

Yesterday's hog. She tipped the scales at 5-4! Didn't get into a lot of them, but this one made the say sweet. Another big frog bass in the books....hope this bite keeps rolling!

[punch]

That's a hog! Nice job, what kind of frogs do you like? I was out for a brief stint the other night and caught 4 fish.. 2 on a frog, 1 on a bluegill spinnerbait with a kaitech trailer, and 1 on a splitshot rig dragging around a zoom lizard. Bites were few and far between. 

The water temp needs to drop already.. it actually went UP. Last weekend my local lake in the north metro was 70, then I go out Wednesday night and it was 73. Not cool. 

[NathanDLTH]

Geneoh-Johanna is difficult for first times, try looking for weedlines and hard bottoms. I had the opportunity to fish Johanna with a gentleman last Sunday and the key for us was a rocky flat. We were using green pumpkin jigs with zoom speed craws. 

Pitch-that's awesome man! I have yet to hook up on a frog this summer. 

Punch-that's not fun at all. 

Looking for info on Minnetonka, taking part of the Take A Vet fishing. Thanks to Punch for linking it. 

[gim]

Those fish in the youtube videos posted by pitchin' fool are ridiculous.

Feider is in the lead after day 2 at the AOY Elite!

[pitchin fool]

Punch...I use a plethora of frogs. I am not that picky. The best bang for the buck is a pad crasher, but the fish I have been getting have all been on the kvd frog (which I didn't like before). It's my thinking that they are after the rattle noise. I am trying to just move the rattle when working the frog, so almost as if the frog is shaking on top of the slop while moving slowly. It's been the ticket. My two favorite frogs would have to be live target and spros.

13 hours ago, gimruis said:

Those fish in the youtube videos posted by pitchin' fool are ridiculous.

Feider is in the lead after day 2 at the AOY Elite!

I like how all his videos (but more of the ones with me in it ?) are edited to just show catches and don't have his personal preference of what he calls music. Nothing I hate more than trying to watch a video and there's some crap music taking away the experience. 

[NathanDLTH]

Any info for fishing Minnetonka? Bass of course. Going out tomorrow. 

[Fiske]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2016 at 7:21 AM, pitchin fool said:

Yesterday's hog. She tipped the scales at 5-4! Didn't get into a lot of them, but this one made the say sweet. Another big frog bass in the books....hope this bite keeps rolling!

She's a beauty pitch!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Fiske]

My first 20 incher (4.7) lbs this year,,,taken around noon on Saturday,,,
she had several chunky 16 to high 18's hanging around with her.

3/8 oz rageblade   WT 66.2 degrees   Depth 4.5 feet

[Fiske]

On a smaller lake yesterday from 2 pm until dark with little to show for it.
Water was 68 degrees and the cabbage that produced some decent fish this year
is starting to die back.
I did lose one jigging deeper water off the lake's main point that really felt good,,,
but who knows.

Beautiful eve to be on the water though,,,

 

[NathanDLTH]

I realize this about the Minnesota state and fishing. That being said I'm contemplating selling my Shimano Clarus MF 7'0". I would be interested in a trade for a MH 7' for a similar value. The Clarus is brand new practically, owned it since July of this year. PM me with phone for pics. 

 

Like the rod, just decided that I perfer  MH over medium action and being that I have 3 set ups they need to be versitale. 

[Fiske]

Hey Nathan,,

Have a Falcon BuCoo, Abu Garcia Veritas 2.0 Micro Guide, and a Fenwick Silver Hawk all
in MH but not interested in a trade,,,,however if you can't make a deal with the Clarus,
you may want to consider a Silver Hawk.
They're currently on sale at Cabela's for 59 bucks. Actually it's been more of a perpetual sale.
I like mine a lot and use it for jigging.

[NathanDLTH]

Thanks I'll think about that. 

[gim]

Holy RAIN!  My gosh some places got 10 inches of rain last week.  So I get to the access this afternoon and there's about 15 feet of water between the parking lot and the dock and the water is knee deep, plus the entire lake is NO WAKE.  Luckily the water is still pretty warm though so I got out there for a few hours.  It was like fishing at high tide!  All the areas I used to fish regularly are in deeper water now and people's yards are half underwater.  Well we did catch 6 bass and 2 pike in about 2.5 hours, including a nice 18.5 inch largemouth.  Beware of very high water though.

[dsidle61]

We have some nice cooler temps rolling through this week.  We have been getting teased with 40 degree nights followed by 60 degree nights.  This is my best time of the year typically.  Spinnerbaits and topwater buzzbaits are the trick for me this time of year.  I typically despise jig fishing bc of how slow it is but this is the year I stick with it!

[Tlauz]

Got out for about 4 1/2 hours today in the Bemidji area.  Fished 3 hours on one lake and caught 8.  Switched to a smaller shallower lake and caught 10 in an hour and a half before the rain came.  Most fish came on Strike King KVD 2.5.  Most hits came on the pause as  the bait was floating up.  Tried throwing a spinnerbait and couldn't get any takers.  Water temp was 61 degrees. 

[gim]

Boy, I'll tell ya there's a good bite out there right now.  And you don't need to finesse them, just use a moving lure and keep it moving.  They'll hit it with willingness

[Fiske]

Glad there's been a good bite for you but it's been tough around here.
Pounded a lake for six hours yesterday,,, high, low, and everything in-between
with only two shows,,,a 17.25 and 19". Caught them throwing a spinner bait into the reeds of all things. A last resort out of desperation sort of thing.
Not complaining though,,,the 19 incher jumped twice and generally fought like hell in the 62 degree water,,,,, of course the coots were not impressed.

 

[geneoh]

Went out for 6 hours this morning. Lake was busy with people fishing. Caught 7, a few bass, a few northern. Pretty much all dinks. I felt like I had a hard time finding them. I worked the shore, flats, weed edges and drop offs. Everything I caught was on a moving bait (Whopper Plopper, spinnerbait, swimming a jig). Ready to work a new metro lake. 

[FishingMN]

found a 4 around 2lb mark on weed edges, 2 on a plastic bait and 2 on a square bill crankbait. 7 ft water, evening.

[pitchin fool]

Today was just one of those days that you dream of fishing. My buddy and I got into a slough of em and some really big ones too! He got his on spinnerbaits and paddle spins (something he came up with on the fly), I got all my good ones on a war eagle 1/2oz jig, and a bunch on a shad rap. Top five fish between the 2 of us as follows...5-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-2, 5-4. Plus a 4-15, 4-9, 4-4, 3-12, and a 3-6. Numerous others in the 2 range and a plethora of dinks. 57 fish between the 2 of us in all! CRAZY!