Was up in the brainerd area for the extravaganza and a few days on area lakes.
Saturday: Set up in about 35 feet for the contest, ended up with a .12lb eye between the seven of us. Had a lot of fun as usual.
Sunday: Braved the wind and cold and went out to pelican. Drove out to rifle sight and popped some holes. Picked up a bunch of small eyes(nothing bigger than 10″) and perch in 40ft, lost a heavier fish. Used forage minnows tipped with full minnows, heads and spikes or small jigs basically the whole weekend
Monday: Fished Nisswa. Caught smaller gills and crappies managed a few keeper gills. Got a few northerns too, couple small ones and a 31 inch chunk. Packed up and headed to Lower Cullen. Set up on the bottom side of a hump in 30 feet. It was SLOW. Brought back 1 crappie, 3 perch and 2 gills.
Tuesday: Fished hole in the day on gull for a while during the day, drilled holes all over and marked a couple fish ended up with nothing, at about 2pm couple of the guys decided we should head a little north to Leech. On the ice and fishing by 4. Set up on a hump in walker bay. Managed about 20 eyes nothing bigger than 11″ besides a 26″. Bite shut off shortly after dark.
Another annual trip in the books, can’t wait til next year!
