I have been out marking for ice time. Another thing to look for is planted structure, shows up pretty well on SI, a lot is illegally placed but not illegal to fish it. Will fish walter with stick baits in the dark and switch over to pannies later. Still lots to catch, and you get the lake to yourself!
They be bitin on Osakis
They be bitin on Osakis
should have said something, i would have bought you a beer!!
Have heard great things about Osakis.
Just caught a bunch of sunfish yesterday. Found a HUGE school of fish just off the edge of an underwater point. Mix of sunfish and crappies, but mostly sunfish. Nothing real big, but lots of nice eater size fish. The action was fast and furious.
They be bitin on Osakis
back when we had the camper by new london……the rule for Osakis was to fish them pannies when most the docks were pulled out!!!!!!! 
we usually did pretty well!!!!! same could be said for sauk lake!!!!!
If I mark a big school of not-walleye in 20’ off a weedline, should the first assumption be crappie?
If I mark a big school of not-walleye in 20’ off a weedline, should the first assumption be crappie?
Could be crappies or sunfish or even a mix of both. To find out I’d drop a flu flu jig tipped with a wax worm and possibly add a split shot 18-24” away from the flu flu. Fish directly over the edge.my guess I’d you will find out What they are rather quickly. Like everything they are feeding heavily right now. Took us about 15 seconds yesterday to figure out what are were.
still is Glenn!!
The wind has been a problem at over 20mph daily on a large lowland lake with no shore windbreaks. I need to keep my boat in position once I’ve found fish and pound the area. But the boat can’t stay still even with a 10lb anchor and that’s all she wrote.
Luckily, not far from home is a much smaller mile long lake with high hills behind east and west shores, the south end not so much, but enough of a windbreak to keep the boat more or less stationary when anchored. This is very important considering the light finesse lures cast in 58-degree water where casting accuracy is very important whether under overhanging branches, near shore or between stumps.
I’ve fished this lake for over 30 years and still discover things about – it namely structure I didn’t know existed. Armed with a Crappie Magnet rigged on a 1/24 oz jig attached to 8# test braid, along with sonar was able to locate and catch 38 fish that included yellow perch, crappie, bass and sunfish ranging in size from 5″ to 2 lbs. Small soft plastics and crankbaits can catch different fish types and more of them. Large lures exclude catching smaller fish. I’m addicted to the strike – any strike – and more is better IMO.
The day after to the lake I managed 24 fish but was forced off due to a 25mph wind from the south. Average fish depth both days was 4-6′ deep and the lure had to be worked slow with pauses mid-depth with rod tip twitches and slight reel-handle turns. The light action rod and braid allowed for the detection of light strikes at long distance casts that turned into hooksets after the first strike. When I found the edge of flats or humps, I cast to them and then to open water where more fish were hanging out.
Kinda felt sorry for the shore anglers watching me catch fish and in fact I did give some lures to a woman casting a lure from a spinning reel. I showed her the retrieve and told her to move along the shore every 20′ and cast again if no fish were caught.
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Was on Tonka once a week for the passed 3 looking for crappies in the holes. I haven’t found them even one that’s been good the last 2 years. One hole has a lot of bluegill and apparently some big pike.
34″ caught on a small jigging spoon with a spike in a 37 foot hole. There were 4 more large fish in the same area but when I went back, I couldn’t find them again. Nice fight on a medium-light 7 foot rod and 6# mono. The pike had a little tummy bump, probably the little bluegill.
I ran into a guy who looked like he was trolling for muskie. He said I’m mostly playing with electronics. He said he does testing for Humminbird. I didn’t ask but maybe their next version of Mega Live.
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Were you in the dark bays? Clearwater fish are probably relating to weeds.
At least you caught some peace & quiet, rarity out there. Nice greenie. Keep looking I will be out tomorrow-might be hard to get out after this weekend. I would also be tempted to spend a little time casting for Walter out there too. Good lucK!
Spoon you get the record for the cutest 11” crappie ever!
Spoon you get the record for the cutest 11” <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>crappie ever!
Thanks Tim. For some reason I’ve caught more 14″ crappie. 8″ sunfish and 10″ yellow perch than in previous years. One sunfish that got off could have been a state record! It might have something to do with the drought that has lowered water levels big time in the northeast, changing fish-location patterns – especially in the shallower lakes I fish. It hasn’t been uncommon to catch 50 or more fish/day under a bright sun in 6′ or less.
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Spoon you get the record for the cutest 11” <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>crappie ever!
Tim, I was thinking the same. That is the most 7 inch looking 11 incher I’ve ever seen! 
Ah, BTW the ruler is real. Some other crappies’ tails went over the 12″ mark outside the plastic shoe box cover.
But hey, even a 10″ crappie will put a nice bend on a light action rod!
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