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Fishing Reports for Minnesota Fishing-Archive for Upper
Red Lake Ice Fishing for Crappies
Name: Buck Upper_Red_LakeCookie, promised to let you know how we did Sunday Feb.9th out of Roger's Campground. Well, we didn't. Weather conditions were pretty harsh and that effected the bite. I caught the only crappie out of 4 guys, we pulled up a bunch of perch and I had a big northern break my line. The wind was so bad that someone had to be in the portables at all times otherwise it would blow away. Would like to get up there again sometime soon and give it another shot. I would recommend Roger's as good place to access the lake, very nice people and the lady (can't remember her name) was more then willing to give any advice, too bad she couldn't control the weather. Good luck all! Name: chilly willy Upper_Red_LakeMe and a couple of buddies are heading up saturday to fish from about 11 am to 8 pm. We are planning on heading out from Hillmans out of Waskish. Anybody have any advice. I did a solo trip last year and couldn't believe the fishing. I am looking to make my buddies believers. Any Tips would be appreciated... I'll be glad to pass on any information when we come back. Gps coordinants, etc... Name: timmy Upper_Red_Lakecought 55 last firday smallest was 1.2 and the bigest 1.8 Name: Basswacker Upper_Red_LakeHey Cookie where on URL are you out of may I ask? I also note that the weather is playing havoc on the bite!! I'm gonna be up there Sat. the 15th I'll be fishin the late afternoon, evening and I'll probably be pre drilling about 30 holes that way I can move around a bit to possibly chase them down! I hear it's warming up so I think they may turn on again by sat or sun.Gotta leave monday ta get back to the day job if ya know what I mean. Are they hittin waxies and fatheads,crappie minnows ? Name: THE GREEK Upper_Red_LakeSEAN: NO I LIVE ON ISLAND LAKE IN CROMWELL AND DON,T GET MUCH OF A CHANCE TO FISH PRAIRE LAKE. BUT I HEAR THAT THERE IS GOOD FISHING IN THE LAKE. Name: Sean Upper_Red_LakeMy father has a cabin on Prairie Lake. Do you fish that much? Name: mnhunter Upper_Red_LakeI am looking to set up a trip to Red for myself and a couple of Red lake rookies.There are 3 of us that would like to stay the 28th of fEB March 1st.A sleeper or onshore,makes no difference.Any help would be appreciated. mnhunter64@yahoo.com Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeBen sorry you had no luck,as you saw red lake is huge, as you no the weather can have a effect on fishing and it has been a couple of rough days. I personley did not go on the lake much the last few days. The wind and cold can play havoc on you if your in portables. It was so cold Sunday night that when Rod folded up his portable the plastic window shattered.Rod was a diehard out there and moved quite a bit even in those conditions. He did manage to find and catch some fish. I was very impressed... and would like to fish with him somtime in the future. Bruce and his bunch were hunkered down and did not have much action.When that portable went by the picture window on Tuesday morning they had seen enough. Rick managed to catch 6 fish tuesday night, can only hope the weather improves and the fish start to bite better. A big key on this lake is to try different spots, if there is no action after dark you need to move, even 20 yards can make a huge difference. If I was fishing portables I would pre drill some extra holes in the area you are fishing and if your not getting any action after dark move or at least try dropping a jig down the extra holes, using a vex. to see if you have any takers ,they seem to come from the bottom out of no where. You don't always mark them unless they come off the bottom after your presentation. Ray,Dennis and Ted were out there last night and will be checking with them later to see how thev'e done. COOKIE Name: ben Upper_Red_LakeJust returned from the great URL everyone there is friendly.But don't expect to find fish without a lot of pre-planning. We did and got skunked. We fished all the big groups of houses and the basketball hoop and the various rental house locations and checked with many fishermen in those houses. We had a good camera and a good vexlar. We saw one crappie a few northern and caught a few perch and a couple walleye. None of the fishermen were catching anything but one or two. Do your home work and know where you are going to fish before you get there, it is a huge lake and it all looks the same. Don't count on the rentals to be on fish. By the way I saw some awful rental houses so ask what you are getting. We are good fishermen but not good planners. We left and went back to Alex and caught 8 nice crappies in the evening. We had a good time but just a word to the wise--do your home work ben Name: THE GREEK Upper_Red_LakeWELL COOKIE THE GANG WILL BE UP ON FRI. HOPE YOU WILL HAVE ROOM FOR 8. HOW HAS THE FISHING BEEN. WE WILL HAVE CONEYS ON THE SAT. Name: THE GREEK Upper_Red_Lakewill be coming up with the cookie. I hope that will be room. Couynt on aleast 8. We will be having coneys on sat night. I hope that with the warming temps the fishing will pick up. See you soon. Name: RJM Upper_Red_LakeCookie....I am planning a trip to URL march 8,9. i was wonding if you had GPS cordince for any good spots to try. (that is once it gets closer to that weekend). and i was wonding about any other advice you could give a first time URL fisherman. Name: Lana Upper_Red_LakeGood Afternoon; I am trying to set up an ice fishing trip for my hubby's birthday around the week of the 22nd. He wants to go to Upper Red Lake. There will be 4 of them. Can you please tell me some places that may have a fish house available for rental. Thank you for your Help Lana lrblado@lifecore.com Name: Harry Upper_Red_LakeCookie: I laugh at myself some times also!! I like using the wood stove because that is what I was brought up to use as a young boy. I have a propane stove I could use but I like using wood!! I met a young man out on another lake this winter and he had never seen a wood stove used in a fishouse, he was amazed!! Also the jig sticks are what I was brought up with also to use. In fact some of them are ones I have made!! I have a vexilar but I am colored blind and cannot tell if there is a fish down there or not but my son enjoys using it. By the way my portable house is homemade also but it looks great!! I continue to look forward to your daily reports. Hope to see you this weekend!! Harry Name: kyle c Upper_Red_LakeCookie , looks like the weather is going to warm up some this weekend .If you could try to get me a report in the middle of next week. Looking to come up soon ,may rent one of your houses. Going to Kab this Week so cant come up now . please get me the report , thank alot straightshooter870@yahoo Name: Sean Upper_Red_LakeI am coming up to URL on the 7,8,9 of March. Wondering if anyone could recommend a resort use. Would like to rent a sleeper house. Also seeing this is my first time coming up I would like to thank Cookie for posting the reports. If it wasn't for his postings I probably wouldn't have planned this trip. Good luck in the upcoming weeks. Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeRick and Darlene just left they caught 6 crappies 2 nice walleyes they had to release. Any many perch . They were happy and thats what matters to me. Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeRicko let me no if your up here and we can hook up 15 for 2 double run for 10, jack of knobs for 11 good luck, glad you caught fish they are beauties arn't they.Were out of fish so will have to try and land a few myself. Sounds like Harry might come up with his son. He fishes with the old jig stick, no vex ,and little wood stove like stepping in to the past, when I first went ice fishing. Looks like a gorgeous sunrise wish I was looking out the picture window in the shack but Rick and Darlene are using it. Hope there enjoying the sunrise. Think I'll fire up the sled and zip out there in a bit see if I can get to shack with 2 wheel drive truck. Darlene had never seen a fish come through a ice hole. I've spoiled her in my fish house hope she gets hooked. COOKIE Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeHere's a few quick tips for them finicky crappies ,try starting your vechicle, somtimes this will intice a bite,watch that bobber if a sled or vechicle passes buy this also can make them take a nip, it will be a quick nip but if your paying attention you might be surprized. If there following your bait but won"t bite take your index finger and pull the line up as slow as possible,when they get to that transition zone,they will take one whack at it, set the hook, you should feel the bite on your finger. GOOD LUCK TO ALL LET ME NO IF THESE TRICKS WORK FOR YOU COOKIE Name: wangberg Upper_Red_LakeI agree that walleyes should be rid of on URL because there are not as many lakes in MN that has thousands of crappies and alot over 12 inches and if we do not get rid of walleyes the crappie population will go down then we will probably have to wait for another 5-20 years til the population of crappies rise if we all dont keep any walleyes. so the limit of walleyes should be unlimited then crappies 15 (will be 10 starting spring) then the crappie fishing will be awesome all the times on URL. Where else can you catch your limit or more than your limit and the biggest is 15 inches? anywhere else ... no i dont think so if you did youre just BS us. anyways hope the crappie population will continue well. GOOD FISHING Name: wangberg Upper_Red_LakeI agree that walleyes should be rid of on URL because there are not as many lakes in MN that has thousands of crappies and alot over 12 inches and if we do not get rid of walleyes the crappie population will go down then we will probably have to wait for another 5-20 years til the population of crappies rise if we all dont keep any walleyes. so the limit of walleyes should be unlimited then crappies 15 (will be 10 starting spring) then the crappie fishing will be awesome all the times on URL. Where else can you catch your limit or more than your limit and the biggest is 15 inches? anywhere else ... no i dont think so if you did youre just BS us. anyways hope the crappie population will continue well. Name: Ricko Upper_Red_LakeCookie thanks for all the fine reports you've been putting on this site. I know all the guys I fish with look at this site daily! We were there up there Feb 7th and 8th and did go home with our limits largest one 14 1/2 and many in the 13 inch size. We were using red and blue glows baits that worked well, also waxies three to a bait and it worked. Lost my butt in cribbage during slow times but hope to get that back this weekend + more of the great fishing the url has. I'll post when i get back so keep up the great reports Cookie they make my day! Name: mike Upper_Red_Lakecookie, i have e-mailed you about your house for rent and we will be up there around 10 or 11 am on thursday morning, and we may give you a call when we get there. Do you still have a house available to rent? Well maybe we will catch up with you sometime this weekend. Good Luck. Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeGuess what I had for dinner CRAPPIES the wife did a excelent job catching and cooking the dinner . The guys in the sleeper did not have much luck, felt bad but they wern't biting. Rod was more mobile and caught some fish but it was slow,maybe he will report how many he caught total. Today was no day to be on the lake a portable went right by the picture window that is when they decide it was time to pack it in. Have a excellent fishermen out there tonight with his sweety pie hope they fish. I mean catch fish Will see how they do tomorrow, cusins houses were slow. Would be nice to have some nice weather. Have a full house coming this weekend so lots of spots to try. The Greek will be bringing his plow so that will be nice. Crazy Bill and his bunch are coming and he can find fish not affraid to move, Rick and Bill will be coming up again. Jerry and his son will be here,as well as Jerry and his wife.Wayne will be coming up he also is a excellent fishermen and has showed me many tricks to intice those crappies to bite. I will share some of then tonight if I get a chance. Velmer Halama,Buddy Hillmen and kelly really did some nice work on hillmens road yesterday now the wind is playing havoc. Mother nature at her meanest. Remember always respect Red Lake it will bite you COOKIE Name: Ryan Highberg Upper_Red_LakeI would have to say that upper red is a great fishery with or without walleye, as you can see, lake of the woods classes have been very small lately but give it 3 or 4 years and that will be the lake to be at. I also believe that upper red is so vast and such a small portion is fished there is no way for the large population of crappies to fall to quickly. Over 3/4's of upper red and all over lower red can not be fished by us and if their are fish where we are they are all out there too. You have to remember their is vast water that has yet been explored or harvested for crappies. Let the walleyes come on but give it a couple years and it will have a lot of big trophy walleyes and number. They are allready on the rise and keep coming. Let lake of the woods be walleye. Red can be known for what it is now. The CRAPPIES!!! Good Fishing Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeHey Kevin glad to see the report,look forward to fishing with you in the future. Stay in touch. COOKIE Name: cookie Upper_Red_LakeThey say that the first year is the toughest for the crappies,last year 2001 survey showed the biggest hatch of all time but the next year that was deminished. Again 2002 was good and they will know next year how they do. It would be nice if they could manage for both but I do miss eating thoughs walleyes the best fish in Minnesota. They say the conditions have to be perfect for the crappies to survive ,do the walleys eat most of the small crappies? I don't no, we would have to ask the DNR. COOKIE Name: Big Daddy Upper_Red_LakeHey, We are coming up tommorrow night for the bite and have to work the next day. Ive heard good and bad. Any ideas about where to go? Name: ryan Upper_Red_LakeHow has the fishing been up there for Crappies and walleyes? Would like to get up there soon to fish but don't wanna drive up there if they are not bitting. thank you and good luck fishing. Name: K.crappie Upper_Red_LakeHi here is my fishing report. on 2/6, 15 crappies,on 2/8,10 crappies, on2/9, 8 crappies. They all were caught at different spots. You have to move to find the fish, as i fished with 6 guys the ones that worked (moved) caught fish. Be mobile and fish a new spot every day and you should do good. Thank you Cookie,Kevin. Name: clfolstrom Upper_Red_LakeCould somebody e-mail me on places to stay in url? My husband and son want to come up there and I need to know where to have them stay.thank you clfolstrom@aol.co.
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