Fishing Reports For Alexandria Lakes Area

I will try to keep up with a weekly report for all of you guys and ladies out there.

While I didnt get out this weekend the reports were alittle slow. Fishing seemed to slow this weekend with the changing weather i.e high winds and rain. The fish are really on the move right now. So if you catch a few nice fish and then it shuts down, I would be ready to move around whether it be shallower or deeper. This time of year its most likely shallower. The reports of people catching fish still seemed up be by standing weeds, on either moon glows or fiskas but small in size and profile. Crappies have still be biting in the cabbage beds, on small minnows. As for ice conditions, mainy of the lakes still have over 20 inches of ice. As the weather continues to warm, I would recomend less and less driving trucks out and more walking. Perch have are still biting in that 6 to 7 foot range on minnows or buckshot jigs. Good luck to all!

Well for all you guys and gals that got out this last weekend I hope you had a great one like I did. I dont know if it was just me or we were fishing in the right spot but everything was biting the hook. We had sunnies nice 8.5 to 10 inchers, Crappies 9 to, two 14 inchers and we had perch from 10 to 11 inches. The late ice bite is really on right now. This week should be one of the best weeks for late ice fishing. I concentrated in the pencil reeds where the warm maybe bit just a tich bit warmer. wax warms or crappie minnows, the fish were hungry. Good Luck.

While many of the lakes around the Alexandria lakes area are open and ready to be fished, a few larger lakes are in the transition fase, in which you cant ice fish, and its not open water to boat around. I would suspect bigger bodies of water should be open this weekend sometime. With high winds and temperatures it should really rip through the ice. As for fishing people around the area or moving onto the smaller bodies of water looking for crappies and sunnies up in the shallows along the shore lines. Look for pencil reeds, river inlets and black bottom bays in the 4 to 6 foot range, where the water is warmer and the fish will move into. Crappie minnows or moptops with small jigs and a bobber have been working best. Afternoon and evening bite has also be best because of the warming temperatures. If anyone wants to get out let me know. This weekend and the next should be great weekends for fishing.