Metro pike

  • Ashford
    Rochester area
    Posts: 21
    January 3, 2016 at 8:50 pm #1589379

    Looking for decent pike lake on lower half of metro to tip-up fish with good numbers in upper 20’s range, for eating. Work up there occasionally, sometimes with a little time to kill.

    Sam
    St.Francis
    Posts: 384
    January 3, 2016 at 10:40 pm #1589407

    Coon Rapids Dam, fish the little bay above the dam just stay away from the narrow channel and away from the dam the little bay below the dam is great for walleye and crappie

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    January 3, 2016 at 11:34 pm #1589412
    Sam wrote:

    Coon Rapids Dam, fish the little bay above the dam just stay away from the narrow channel and away from the dam the little bay below the dam is great for walleye and crappie

    Good luck with all that. “Great” is a strong word, and yeah the dam will put out some occasional good fish, but its far and few in between. Plenty of good lakes in the metro with MUCH better shots at northerns. Most slimers in that size range he seeks are pretty skinny in the river anyways.

    Sam
    St.Francis
    Posts: 384
    January 4, 2016 at 8:01 am #1589437

    don’t know about you but I have always had good luck fishing there for eyes crappies and pike with a few cats taking the suckers too

    philtickelson
    Inactive
    Mahtomedi, MN
    Posts: 1678
    January 4, 2016 at 9:14 am #1589480

    Tonka is a good bet, plenty of shallow, weedy areas to setup tipups without having to walk too far out.

    Ashford
    Rochester area
    Posts: 21
    January 4, 2016 at 2:03 pm #1589644

    Thanks for the leads.

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