I haven’t even wet a line out there this winter. I heard a few flags were going off in Spring Park for a couple buddies over the holiday week. They also said they caught some decent crappies after dark.
I havent been playing around on Tonka at all. All of my fishing efforts have been within the city limits, and a couple trips north to rush and Mille lacs.
Fishing has been consistent everywhere that I have fished. I havent had any problems coaxing walleyes to bite.. but more have been coming up on a plain hook and fathead vs the jigging spoon.
Decided to chase panfish on Tonka. Excellent choice Smithers. Drilled a hole dropped down the transducer and marked a solid four feet of fish. So there we stayed. Non stop action. All blue gills until about 4pm when we switched to minnows and got into a great crappie bite until sun went down. It was drop the jig wait about 30 seconds and set the hook. I had one crappie come flying up a good 5ft to hit my jig as it was falling down. We were off an inside turn in 17ft of water in a main lake basin. Also lost a nice pike on a tipup. Broke the line. Another group near us iced 3 pike in the 30″ range. Guess I won’t be fishing walleyes on Tonka until next spring 
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