Fishing report

12/23/03
The lower St. Croix River ice fishing is variable depending on the day. On the right days, crappies and saugers have been on a good bite from dawn until around 9:30- to 10:30 and the evening bite is starting an hour or more after dark. Crappies are running keeper size and 9 to 11”s is average with smaller and some magnum sized crappies also coming in, anglers hitting the ice at the right time are getting keepers in numbers of the low teens. On the wrong days next too nothing is being caught. Ice is forming with thickness anywhere from 6- 10 inches. Crappies are over the deepwater basin in 36 to 39 feet and hitting on small crappie minnow tipped jigs along with plain bobbers. A few sturgeon have been caught this winter and walleyes as well.

Keep Catchin’
Turk

Thanks Turk. I thought it was just me those days when nothing would come in.

This is the first year that I’ve fished crappies out of Bayport. Are they always that thin in their backs?
Don’t get me wrong, they still make a handsome fillet, but the crappies out of the Afton area…the same size seem to be thicker?

Turk, I’ve changed my handle, just so you don’t get me confused with the guy that kicked sand on you at St Mary’s Beach….It wasn’t me.

BUT, if you were my fishing partner that day and you were lying there all coppertoned up….I’m sure I would have.

Just wait’en to go fish’en…