Forum: Panfish

OK folks, We are currently doing a postcard survey within our management area and have received quite a few responses, however, we know there is a fairly strong online constituency as well. Please see below if interested. Thanks. Dear Interested Angler: Over the past few decades many...

I found this website page that explains "in depth" how to use bobber stops to determine water depth and then control lure depth range. http://www.bulletbobber.com/sliprig.html The bobber and bead designs are genius! IMO

Gents - Just curious if anyone has done any fishing on Eagle Lake in Maple Grove as well as what the general thought is about Schmidt Lake. Any help you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

With only a limited time this week, I'm not sure which would be the best crappie lake this season. Lake Sylvia or Cedar Lake? I like them both. Any ideas?

Heading up to Woman Lake mid March (if there is ice). Never fished Woman for panfish, just muskies and bass. Any suggestions for perch, crappies or sunnies??

Was able to get out for a bit today with Matty Breuer and Spense to chase down some slabs a little ways north of Bemidji. Wow, did I pick a cold day to run up there! Even the slightest breeze chilled you to the bone. Luckily we spent a lot of the morning drilling holes and chasing fish. Found some...

had a chance to get out for some fishing this week...

Sumo Panfish! I got these on a hair jig and waxies rigged under a weighted slider float in 23 ft.

http://mtbucket.blogspot.com/2011/10/jumbo-bluegills-and-slabs-10-22.html I got up North to chase some big slabs and bluegills with Chad "crappiesniffer" and his friend Joel. We had a blast nailing big sunfish in 23 ft. I had my best luck jigging nightcrawlers a foot or 2 off the bottom. The...

I got do do some panfish chasing with Patrick a friend I met on line that lives up in Bemidji. He got me on some pretty good lakes up there! The first lake had lots of bass with a few big bluegills mixed in. The second lake we went in the float tubes and had a non stop panfish bite in around 18 ft...

Was up at the cabin again this weekend and decided to target large sunfish the entire weekend. Tried slip bobbering in deeper water with mixed results, we found plenty of fish in the 18-22 foot range but it was slow going with a lot of sorting involved. So we went in to eat lunch and i threw on the...

It was very slow day out on the water today. Tried a couple different lakes today and ended up with a bunch of small bass and a few decent sunfish.All fish were caught on a small underwater hump or on the weed edges in 9-10 FOW.

I took a good friend of mine, his 3 yr old son and my daughter Sydney out for some panfish action on a Chisago area lake today. I found a nice reed point that dropped off to 13 fow. We were using tube jigs tipped with leeches under corks. We started catching bluegills right away and eventually the...

was heading up to monticello tonight and decided to drive by pelican on the way. was amazed to see only two trailers at the landing. is this the norm now or just an off night. seemed like for a while there the lot was full everynight. now its been probably 2 or 3 years since i have been out...

I read there are no wake restrictions on some wright county lakes like Clearwater and Sugar. That will make some of the bass fishing tourneys interesting. Anybody been on Pelican lately? Is the water a few feet higher than normal there too?

Headed up to leech on sat morning for 5 days for a family vacation. how's the bite? looking to target a little something of everything musky, walleyes, bass, and some panfish for the little ones

Was up at the cabin this weekend enjoying the amazing weather. Got into a lot of panfish on a secondary weed flat that leveled off into around 16 feet of water. Jesse Williams even stopped out to get in on the action for a little bit. Bobbers weren't working too well right off the bat, so we were...

Took the family up to Chisago City for a little fishing and swimming. We started looking for some fish in 4-8 feet of water which produced 6-7 inch sunfish and couple small bass. The crappies were absent for some reason. We kept moving hitting some other weed lines/flats with the same...

I met Jack up in Pelican Rapids, and we hit an area lake that was really going for Slabs and big sunfish. Some of the crappies were close to a pound and a half. My best bait was a 16th oz jig tipped with a 2.5 inch gulp alive emerald shiner colored minnow. Also slow trolling or fan casting a...

I got into some more nice sunfish and bass this weekend in the Grand Rapids area, getting them up shallow. The bass were done spawning, though a few males were still on beds, got some up to 18 inches on a thorne bros 6 inch slug bait. Bluegills were just moving up to spawn though they have not...

      The large majority of anglers who target crappies tend to do so during the first or last couple of hours of daylight. While this is a very productive way to target numbers of fish, many anglers don’t often fish much later than dark and are missing out on some great fishing opportunities. This...

Was up at the cabin on saturday and sunday to put the dock and water in. Was able to get out for a couple hours both days to chase some panfish. Found a few crappies mixed in with greens and pumpkinseeds on Saturday, but not near the numbers we had two weeks ago. When the rain moved in on Sunday...

A few of the many panfish I got this weekend. the two biggest bluegills weighed in at 1 pound one ounce. I got some on plastics and gulp, the best bait for the bigger sunfish was small leeches. Most were up shallow near reeds or bulrushes.

Friday wife and I hit Tonka looking for crappies, water temps were 47 in am, and 49 when we went home about 3pm. Tried several back shallow bays including Seton and Black with no luck, we were using crawlers, minnows and bobbers, big and small jigs, with and without minnows and no luck, neither...