Sunday, I was fishing Clear lake, north side in about 18′.
For several hours we got nothing, seemed like the dead sea, not even a perch. Then about 3:00 we saw crappie, not on the flasher, but in the holes. The crappie were right under the ice suspended to about four feet down. We could see every spot on them, we just raised our bait and short lined them in. After a spell the school would swim away, then in about 20 minutes they would come through again. They were slow on bugs, but they nailed minnows as fast as we dropped our lines down the hole. We caught nothing below four feet down. Good size crappies too.
On our way out we were checked by the game warden, He told us that he had just came from Tetonka, and “they were catching slab crappie in 28′ of water”.
Waseca-3 feet under the ice, Tetonka- 28 feet, go figure.
Fish is where you find em!
John.
JohnE
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February 18, 2002 at 2:53 pm
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