Red Advice??? Anyone????

My buddies and I are heading to Red for the first time to fish soft water

I still have no idea how they made me do this but I am going to give it a try.

I am mainly a hard water fishermen. Could you guys and gals give me some advice on what to use and presention?? I have never been up there when the water is not frozen. I have a good idea up what to look for with the help of a good map and GPS. But I would like to simply know what to use. I am not much of a summer guy!!

Thanks for the help in advance

hi Mike,

i’d concentrate in the eastern sections of the lake from 5 feet to 8 feet. jig and minnows cast out would work. slip bobbers with leech or minnow would be good. both those technigues for walleyes and even crappie. not sure how long crappies will stay around. Keep moving to find more active fish. you can also troll a no. 5 shad rap for anything in the lake. you may have to put them on side plainers to get them to the sides of the boat.

good luck.

keep us posted on how it goes.

Jack..

Your going to be extremely happy you went to Red Lake.

I’ll say 60 Walleye’s minnumum for your group.

After you guy’s limit out on Eye’s you should try and chase some crappies…..

Klink,

We all just got back from there Monday. You will have no problem getting the walleyes. We started out using red and white tube jigs tipped with a crappie minnow and caught as many as you want. we were fishing in 9-11 fow about a mile south of Westwinds. There are actually a couple of cribs that we stumbled across out there that held some crappies, but they were few and far between. by the end of the day we were catching walleyes with ringworms. I think your best bet for walleyes is anything you have confidence in. You should get em!

Don’t worry about catching fish.

You’ll catch walleyes untill you drop over.

7-9 feet with a small jig and a minnow.

Get the cheap minnows, no need for shiners. The fish on Red would eat anything right now.

Make sure you get a GOOD ruler to measure the walleyes though. Push them straight and pinch the tail to measure them the way the CO’s will.

I agree with all the others. I have been there a lot and most recently on Sunday afternoon. Fatheads and a small jig. I have gone out of Rogers Resort on the south shore. $5 launch fee but well worth it. You do not have to mess with the current in the river and any wind if there is any. Also, Rogers has very nice facilities, fish cleaning shack, and they do a pretty good job of pointing you in the right direction. They also have a good website with a pretty decent fishing report. If you do a search under Rogers Campground Red Lake it should get you there. We went out and to the right on the lake about a mile down the shore in about 7 FOW. The walleyes all but jumped in the boat and we did manage to get a few crappies as well before the storm came. Like someone also mentioned, be sure to pinch the tail and get a good measurement on the walleyes. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Thanks guys!!

IT should be a blast! From the way everyone is talking maybe we can get our walleyes right away then we can try for crappies ( Catching more Walleyes )

After that I am going to toss Bucktails until my arm falls off!!

Bring some big suckers and run a quick strike rig under a float…..Big Pike

I am going up this Friday. How are the crowds these days? I was there on a Friday the week after opener and there was no problem using the public launch. Are the fish still at the drop off outside the the pub launch or do you have to go deeper. When we were out there the middle of May we cruised around quickly and snapped jigged plastics. worked great you can save alot of time not hassleing with bait.

Well the report from this weekend was poor to say the least! We only ended up boating 3 eyes a perch 1 14″ crappie and 4 sheaphead. In fact we pulled up camp and headed to a couple holes in Bermidji with way better results. The panfish in that area were popping along with a better walleye bite and pike bite.

I was so pumped for Red. But, it seemed like everything we tried did not work. Trolling all aspects, slips, jigs, casting, yada yada yada. Maybe it was just to nice out??

75 to 80 and partly sunny with no wind.

But the good thing was my buddies were in a good mood and the Grainbelt was very cold

There were not many people on the south end from what I saw. Most most were hanging on the crib culster by Morts and fishing in the 8′ to 10′ range. For the most part seemed like boats were dragging the bottom.

We were marking tons and tons of fish but could not get them to pop. My buddy was casting a beetle spin ( He was bored ) and boated a nice 23″ eye ( Released of course ).

Never saw the Warden so that was nice