Fishing saturday????

  • jake_p
    St. Louis Park mn
    Posts: 81
    December 1, 2011 at 10:57 pm #1302967

    I was pondering the idea of heading north with a few buddies to Find some ice saturday. The smaller lakes surrounded by trees were frozen last weekend of deer season with a good solid inch n a half of ice on most. gotta be some fishable ice somewhere up there. anyone got any ice reports from the Aitkin area? Much appreciated!

    washburn
    Aitkin Mn
    Posts: 185
    December 1, 2011 at 11:10 pm #1013757

    What lakes were you wondering about? I could maybe check tomorrow. Mille is open, we had the boat out today just cause we had to go fishing

    Will Roseberg
    Moderator
    Hanover, MN
    Posts: 2121
    December 1, 2011 at 11:12 pm #1013758

    Quote:

    What lakes were you wondering about? I could maybe check tomorrow. Mille is open, we had the boat out today just cause we had to go fishing

    How’d you do?

    I’ll be up in two weekends either walking out on Mille Lacs or a smaller lake if need be.

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    December 1, 2011 at 11:20 pm #1013763

    Saturday – no, Monday yes. And I am not saying where, because the limit is on the ice already in my mind. Gil fillets for next Friday in the pan

    jake_p
    St. Louis Park mn
    Posts: 81
    December 1, 2011 at 11:23 pm #1013764

    I really don’t care what lake, i just wanna fish.im plannin on lakes north of Aitkin up by Palisade. Rat lake would be a start, a small lake called whispering, flemming possibly. Im really just curious if anyone is out yet anywhere up there.

    washburn
    Aitkin Mn
    Posts: 185
    December 1, 2011 at 11:23 pm #1013765

    Didn’t mark a thing, Think it woulda been better after dark shallow but it’s getting chilly! Malmo bay had enough ice that we went west. wont be long now. Give me a call when you come up

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    December 1, 2011 at 11:45 pm #1013774

    Change of plans, Saturday is on. Secret spot #19A. Old timer just gave me the ice report and things are looking “solid”, we will be urine pounding by 8 AM, pictures and report will be in after 5PM mass that evening

    Follmerpa
    white bear lake
    Posts: 134
    December 2, 2011 at 1:39 am #1013810

    Quote:

    Change of plans, Saturday is on. Secret spot #19A. Old timer just gave me the ice report and things are looking “solid”, we will be urine pounding by 8 AM, pictures and report will be in after 5PM mass that evening

    urine pounding???

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    December 2, 2011 at 2:13 am #1013824

    Quote:

    Quote:

    Change of plans, Saturday is on. Secret spot #19A. Old timer just gave me the ice report and things are looking “solid”, we will be urine pounding by 8 AM, pictures and report will be in after 5PM mass that evening

    urine pounding???

    Hurts just thinking about it!

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    December 2, 2011 at 10:03 am #1013850

    Ya that saying is a odd one, my old manager pulled that one off the shelf when he was really onto fish. My wife doesn’t like that one either so you guys are in line with her. So I’ll keep using it.

    Will Roseberg
    Moderator
    Hanover, MN
    Posts: 2121
    December 2, 2011 at 1:39 pm #1013874

    Quote:

    Ya that saying is a odd one, my old manager pulled that one off the shelf when he was really onto fish. My wife doesn’t like that one either so you guys are in line with her. So I’ll keep using it.

    An ebonics version of the old football saying “the ______ absolutely pounded the urine out of the vikings”

    washburn
    Aitkin Mn
    Posts: 185
    December 2, 2011 at 8:36 pm #1014041

    Didn’t check the lakes you mentioned Jake but Heard yesterday there was probly enough on rat but how much I don’t know

    bigpike
    Posts: 6259
    December 3, 2011 at 9:11 pm #1014224

    Did make it out today, we struck out in the first location, ice was barely good enough to walk on. Was amazed to see a man and a little kid fishing next to each other When I tried getting out to the area I wanted to get to it started thinning out on what was 3 spud ice. Maybe an inch of good ice in the areas it was good. Moved 30 miles north to fish a backwater area of the Chip. Once again 1″ of ice. We fished it but it was sketchy. Caught our 25 and went home. This area has alot of sorting but the crappies can run big. A few nice crappies were had. Still very early and this snow wont help the areas we fished today. Little ice seen between spots on Wissota and Chip. Was very nice to get out

    jake_p
    St. Louis Park mn
    Posts: 81
    December 4, 2011 at 1:32 am #1014236

    i as well made it out today, we fished three different lakes in the Onamia area, first lake we hit was Shakopee lake, we had six inches of good ice, there were TWO FOUR WHEELERS out there! a bit crazy if you ask me. the fishing was slow caught some smaller pirch and two northerns. We left and headed to a real small lake tucked away in the forest called horseshoe. This was a lake we that we had no idea what to make of it. no public access,we managed to find 28 feet of water and graph a few fish but no takers and the ice was barely thick enough to walk on,so we decided to save the rest of the small lake for another day. Off to the next lake we went. We went to Platt lake, this was our best decision all day. there was four to five inches across the entire lake. we managed a dozen decent crappies and 8 medium size Northerns. Fish were lethargic and many were just lokers. All in all good day on the ice.

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