where to fish on the metro area

I LIVE BY LAKE DERMONTERIVLLE IF ANY ONE FISHES THERE OR ANY OTHER LAKE

ICBF.. I in all honestly dont know anything about Demontraville besides where its located.

There may be a couple others here that can help you if you ask more specific questions.

What kind of fish are you trying to target? I can help by giving you some general fishing locations for species of fish, but your going to have to go out and drill holes from there and try to apply some of the tips other people give you.

Hopefully someone can chime in and try to help answer some of your specific questions.

OK IM TARGETING NORTHERN PIKE AND CRAPPIE

I’ll see if I can find Rootski for you. He’s the first angler that fishes there that comes to mind.

Right now, my guess is that you won’t find the crappies with the pike.

Generally speaking, for this time of the year, your average pattern of crappies is going to be over deep holes.

Your pike are going to be in the weedlines in 6-12fow, all pending on the height of the weed growth.

For the pike, I would search for weed flats right now. Look at your basic 10fow, if weeds are growing up 4 feet from the bottom.

What is critical for pike fishing is the location of the bait. Too many people drop the bait into the weeds and they get an unactive tip-up all day long. Ideally, you want your bait atleast 1-2 feet above the weeds.

Basically, where there are sunfish in metro lakes, you will find pike.

Hi Big Fish,

I’m on DeMontreville at least once a week during the summer. I haven’t made it out there yet this winter but I’ve ice fished it in the past.

The Sunfish and Crappies in that lake are very small. There are zillions of them but they’re mainly 3 to 5 inches long. You can’t even really sort through them enough to make up a meal. It’s that bad….

On the other hand, there are a lot of nice Pike in the lake as well as some Walleyes. Even I caught a Walleye out there, and that’s really saying something The best thing going in DeMontreville is the excellent Bass fishing and it’s getting late enough in the year to see them start showing up at the tip ups. They’ll hit sucker minnows or shiners. Be advised that this is a catch-and-release ONLY lake for Bass, so they all go back.

There will be weeds still standing in the lake so look for 10 feet of water to get on the edge of them. The first bay (the one where the access is) bottoms out at 19 feet but that’s a fairly small hole in the Northwest corner. If you’re standing at the access, the bank on your right (South shore) has a decent drop to it from 8 to 11 feet of water. That’s also the weed edge so it’s a place to start looking for Pike. Straight ahead of there is a long point that almost cuts the lake in half. It comes from the South and heads towards the North Shore. Off the tip of that point is 11 feet of water, and is sort of a natural funnel. That’s another good place to look for Pike.
In that first bay, North shore, there’s some faily heavy weed growth in the summer that hangs in there through the winter. Again try and get out toward the edge.

Good luck and be sure to tell us how you did! And maybe next summer we can hook up for some Bass fishing too.

Rootski

if i dont want to go there where should i go for walleyes pike or if the crappie and sunny are big?????

PM Sent

I would join the crew Saturday at Lake Calhoun!!!!

Give you a chance to meet a bunch of really good metro fisherman!

I’m going to do my best to give us a significant chance of seeing a few nice fish

For me I just hope to at least be kept busy by dinky sunfish if nothing else.