lake pepin

  • dfaber
    winona mn
    Posts: 25
    May 15, 2007 at 11:21 pm #1330964

    Does anyone have a report on Lake Pepin or Camp Lacopolis

    fireflick
    Alma WI
    Posts: 875
    May 16, 2007 at 12:10 pm #571657

    Lake Pepin is hot right now. I am seeing well over 50+ fish days. All in 1′-6′ of water. Trolling cranks. I will have new report up tonight…

    gary_wellman
    South Metro
    Posts: 6057
    May 16, 2007 at 3:16 pm #571744

    People are pulling cranks and doing very well!
    If you want saugers, focus on about 10-12 fow.

    dustin_stewart
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1402
    May 16, 2007 at 5:53 pm #571833

    Quote:

    Lake Pepin is hot right now. I am seeing well over 50+ fish days. All in 1′-6′ of water. Trolling cranks. I will have new report up tonight…

    I heard the white bass bite has been great. From the sounds of it, they have been going good for you to

    fireflick
    Alma WI
    Posts: 875
    May 17, 2007 at 1:27 pm #572105

    All walleyes on Saturday/ Monday and Wednesday….Except one had wiskers. Get Shallow. My motor was dragging many of times….

    Speeds went from 3-4.5 mph. Most of the time my kicker was almost wide open… Biggest fish went 6.5 lbs caught by my 9 year old…

    dfaber
    winona mn
    Posts: 25
    May 21, 2007 at 2:39 am #573115

    I and wife fished pepin on Friday pulling cranks did ok keep 8 nice eaters along with several stripers smallies and of coarse this time I out fished her!!!!
    trolled different depths and changed baits several times to find what worked . a few other boats out there didn’t see to much being kepted it was worth taking a day of vacation had a good time.

    fireline
    Rochester
    Posts: 813
    May 21, 2007 at 2:10 pm #573221

    Does anyone have any luck fishing the shore line from Lake City to Lacopolis on the MN side for walleye/Saugers ?

    James Holst
    Keymaster
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 18926
    May 21, 2007 at 2:53 pm #573250

    During high water shore fishing can be very productive. Water levels are pretty low for this time of year. If it was me I would cast cranks along the rocks near Maple Springs (south of Lake City) very early in the AM or during the last couple hours of the day. Since you can fish with two rods have a leech under a slip bobber on that second rod while you’re casting.

    The small points near Maple Springs have always been good areas to target from shore for walleyes and smallies.

    slayer
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 264
    May 21, 2007 at 3:04 pm #573264

    Here is my latest report as of May 19, 2007.

    A friend and I headed down to Lake Pepin. We started off by hitting Hak-So-La Park Point working the break line. I caught one nice crappie. Went south to Digger’s Point and caught nothing. We went further south and fished the rocky shore by the Lake City Marina and used the electric trolling motor to maneuver around. When we got to the second pier, my fishing pole had a big whack! It was a nice 17 inch sauger caught in 23 fow.

    Next, we headed for Roschen boat landing and checked out the break line. Nothing once again, so it was time to head north. We tried the break line from Hanson’s Harbor down to long point. I caught another nice sauger in 9 fow. My friend also nailed a sauger as well. Right in front of the white house I caught a 25 inch northern on a chartreuse jig head with a translucent speckled green ringworm tipped with a minnow. We also caught a lot of sheepies here as well. I caught another nice crappie just south of Long Point. Our final stop of the day was the Maiden Rock Flats. All that we caught here were those dreaded sheepies.

    So we caught two nice crappies, three nice saugers, one nice northern, and several sheepies. The crappies and saugers bit on a chartreuse Phelp’s Floater with about a three foot leader tipped with a minnow.

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