Thanks Derek, that gives me a little more confidence for the weekend. I’m just glad we a have a permanent for a base camp.
Went out Saturday by myself, buddies wife had him running errands all day. Did okay back by the points, caught quite a few crappies with 6 over 9″ mininium. Caught most of the bigger ones around 4:30 in about a ten minute span. One crazy thing is I caught two nice gills on minnows. Don’t see that often.
A friend of mine picked up a few bigger ones there last weekend. I have fished it quite a bit in the past few years and just depends on the day. There are some nights you can catch your limit of 10+ inchers, but most of the time it’s the classic Green lake 8 1/2 inchers. It seems the bigger crappies bite at sundown and in just an hour into dark on crappie minnows. I have always had the best luck earlier in the year for bigger ones. Later in the year I am guessing they wander to deeper water. Northland forage minnow fry green glow has always worked best for me and an ice buster bobber on line # 2.
I fished there last Saturday and caught one bluegill after another with Eurolarvea. Caught around 10 crappies, but the size wasn’t there. Also managed to pull a nice large mouth out of the ice on a crappie minnow. Plan on heading to Green this weekend, but a little scared of the army of icemen back by the bay.
The surface temp on the depth finder was in the lower fifties. A drift sock helped the bite on the spinners.
I fished Zipple Bay last weekend on Friday and caught some walleye and sauger. They seemed to like minnows with the water temp being so low, caught one on a leech. Fireball jigheads and gold spinners from 20 – 15 ft of water seemed to be the best depth. Saturday was really windy and we couldn’t make it out on the main lake. Oh well, that’s fishing.
