Peltier and Prior Report 2-6-10

  • fritcher
    Posts: 13
    #1338984

    I was out on Saturday for a full day of fishing. I started on Peltier and finished the day off on Prior Lake. I set up at about 6:30 am on Peltier in about 13ft of water. I immediately began marking fish. I started catching crappies one after another, but they were all about 6 inches. Once the sun came up I began catching small sunnies. The spot I chose slowed down at about 9 so I began making swiss cheese out of the ice and started hole hopping. I continued to catch a lot of fish, but the size was small. I ended staying on Peltier until 11:00 am with only 1 crappies worth keeping. This was very weird considering the last couple of outings on Peltier I didn’t catch a ton of fish, but they were all keepers.

    Since the morning was not a real great outing I moved down to Prior Lake. It is a little far, but I like fishing the lake. As long as you can get away from the crowds it seems to be a pretty decent fishing Lake. I set up in about 14ft of water and threw down the camera. The sunnies were stacked in at every depth. I began catching some decent fish that would have been keepers, but decided to throw them back since it was only about 1:30 pm. It turned out to be the wrong thing to do though. After the initial couple of sunnies all I caught were small ones. There were plenty of hogs down below the ice I could see on camera, but the little ones would rush in a take the bait right away.

    I did spot a few notherns on the camera. None of them wanted anything to do with me though. Once their was about 15 mins left before sundown, I began catching crappies. They were suspended about 7 ft off the bottom. I was catching the crappies on all sorts of presentations from a demon jigging spoon tipped with a minnow head to a small pink diamond jig with a waxie or larvae. I ended keeping 8 nice crappies for the frying pan and 2 sunnies. When I left I was still marking fish, but had to get going.

    I caught a lot of fish for an all day outing, but didn’t catch the size that I wanted. Still nothing beats a day on the ice regardless of how many fish are caught.

    JasonP
    Twin Cities
    Posts: 1372
    #840452

    Thanks for report. Nice specks.

    J

    northstar42
    west central Minnesotsa
    Posts: 921
    #840455

    Yummy. What a great day.

    Mike W
    MN/Anoka/Ham lake
    Posts: 13310
    #840537

    Thanks for the report. I have been making a few trips out on Centerville the last few weeks. Plenty of fish to catch but have not had any luck finding bigger fish. Maybe Ill have to head across the road next time.

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