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some of the wifes crappie catch on memorial day evening hours.

i failed to mention on previous post that the lake we were at is the one that has the most jetskis and power boats running around but at 5pm when we arrived the lake was dead silent, no kids screaming, no music, no smell of barbeque, absolutely nothing going on which was fantastic. Where was everybody? the weather was warm and sunny 75 very little wind. Maybe the water is a bit cool yet for watersports but it was just to quite for a big holiday day.

went to the detroit lakes area memorial day and lure hit the water at 5 pm. I caught some very energetic bass around 3 lbs and a 4 lb that looked to be full of eggs. They were liking the white chatterbait with a big berkley grass pig 4 inch as a trailer. Also caught them on a white spinnerbait with white kitech trailer. The chatterbait was a bulldozer today as i ran that thing in a foot of water and through the weeds and pad stems. One thing for sure is the water is alot lower than last year and i was wading out darn near to the offshore grass weed line which is usually 10 feet deep on a normal year. The pads just arnt developing yet as they are few and far between and weed growth looks far behind also but the bass were still hangin around but not as many as usual. At 8.30 i picked up the crappie rod and wife and i caught a stringer of crappie with the biggest one at 12 inches using gulp 2.5 inch minnows and i had a bass hit my minnow and i lost him so i picked up the chatterbait and landed a nice 3.5lber that was just a jumpin with energy. We got home at 11:45 pm.

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was thinking about goin to this little 17 acre lake just outside of fargo nd say 20 minutes from my house. Have been there before and caught pike. It should be very busy due to it is also a park with picnic tables and bathrooms and has a very large pier and it may be crowded but the weather today is cool and super windy. Right now at 12pm its 58 degrees with winds at 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 35 which will blow the food of any picnic table but also blow me off the dock, shore and i dont feel like wading today. I got this stocking chart and was interesting to see what they put in this small lake which averages 9 ft and deepest place is just off the dock at 13 ft. ND Game & Fish Department Fish Stocking Report Casselton Reservoir -- Cass County Page 1 of 1 106stocking May 2021 2021 Yellow Perch 4,312 Adult 2020 Northern Pike 900 Fingerling 2020 Yellow Perch 1,311 Adult 2019 Northern Pike 125 Adult 2019 Northern Pike 1,600 Fingerling 2019 Yellow Perch 11,250 Adult 2018 Black Crappie 90 Adult 2018 Northern Pike 142 Adult 2018 Yellow Perch 6,000 Adult 2015 Black Crappie 100 Adult 2015 Northern Pike 50 Adult 2014 Bluegill 260 Adult 2014 Northern Pike 150 Adult 2014 Yellow Perch 2,102 Adult - Fry are newly hatched fish -- Fingerlings are young fish from 1" to 3" in length -- Advanced Fingerlings are young fish from 4 - 10" in length -- Catchables are young Trout from 8 - 10" in length -- Smolts are young Salmon from 4" - 6" in length.

it must have been cleared by the state as it is a well traveled road and heavilly fished from the bank and the owners dont like us bank fisherman. The home owners must not like some of their neighbors because the lake gets torn up in the summer by the kids on the jet skis, ya know the kids that were at one time nice and little and now high school maniacs and the loud party music and again i state that there is no boat access to the lake. Fisherman just want to fish but we arnt welcome on their lake, its not a private lake they want to act as though it is.

One of the lakes i fish on the people who own homes around the lake have installed big cable guard rails where fisherman used to stop on the road and put in their kayaks, canoes and even small aluminum boats. This lake has no boat ramp. I have talked to the guys who used to fish by dropping off their boats there and they tell me the owners would try to stop them by first placing big boulders on the shoreline and in the water and the guys would just move down a bit and then the owners put up the guard rails. I dont know who paid for this as these are professionally done cable concrete anchored rails about 20 yards long. This is a great bass lake but also many home owners with high school kids jet skiing all day and loud music from ski boats and wakeboarding can drive a guy nuts so in the summer we dont start fishing this lake untill 6:30 pm from the bank.

a few days ago they predicted nice weather on sunday for detroit lakes area but as the hours pass the prediction is getting more suspect as now it looks like more clouds throughout the day with rain at 2 pm. Monday still looks to be on schedule for all sunny day so i may go later in the day around 4 pm at a lake with no boat ramp or try to wait till tuesday hmmm tough call.

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temps are in the low 50s in detroit lakes minn area and have frost in northern minn.

thankyou for the reply

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i hear ya , today i am going lazy fishing at the river and will listen to music and if i catch cool if not well at least i was out of the house. I am going to put a kingtail red worm on a weighted underspin and throw it in the eddies below the dam and watch the bobber go around and around in the eddie.

well i was fishing the other day with the wife around a culvert, she was bobber fishing along with 5 other people for crappies and this one guy whom is always there with his kids lets them run rampant. The one boy maybe 12 and carries alot of weight just happes to start swimming in the culvert and splashing around and i seen this and was upset because his dad also bobber fishing just let him go at it like a drunken walrus. The wifes bobber was 10 to 5 feet away pending on current and wind. I decided to fish from the culvert area making long casts out in front of the culvert with a ripstop rapala and the wife told me i am close to hitting the kid with my lure on the cast and i say out loud that i am fishing and if he doesnt want to get hooked he should get out of the water where people are trying to fish. Now call me an .........hole or selfish or form your own opinion about what i did good or bad but this father whom i wanted him to hear me loud and clear finally told his kid to get out of the water. This same guy catches and keeps his fish in a 5 gallon pail and he culls the small ones after he catches bigger ones and with no oxygen in that bucket and bloody water i am not sure if the fish he puts back survive. Also the trash left behind is sad and his friend he was fishing with got a birdsnest in his spinning reel and showed me he only had about a 1/3 of line left on his reel. Well i found his birds nest right on shore as i stepped in it with my foot in the dark as it was now stuck in some dead bush.

Put the waders on yesterday first time since i patched them of a small leak. I stuck a big spinner on a tree limb submerged with the trailer hook from the bank, wont use trailer hook in wood areas again. Waded out to get lure and was really interested in feeling if my leak was fixed but just minutes into the walk out to the lure in stepped into some soggy ground and sank to my shoulders. As the cool water was filling into my waders i was able to get the lure but will have to wait another day to test for leak. There was no water to dump out as i took waders off because my pants, socks, underwear and shirt absorbed it all nicely. I carry spare clothes in the car for these ocasions but i air dried quite quickley with the wind being a big help.

i just watched a Roland Martin video and he said to give the bass a few seconds to position the jig in mouth before setting the hook. Everyone has an opinion, i give it 2-3 seconds till i set hook.

wife and i went to favorite bass lake in detroit lakes fri and from 6pm till 8.30 the bass just wernt out to play. I caught 2 on spinnerbaits and 1 on a jerk bait rip stop along with a couple pike. The weather has been cloudy and rainy all week and the wind was blowing onto the shoreline and usually i get lots of action but it seems with the current weather pattern they shut down. I put the bass lures away and caught crappies along with the wife and took alot home.

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electrics have big problems towing long distances.

when the sun goes down the energizer lamp gets put atop my head. Its a lifesaver when shore fishing at night trying to put lures on, rummaging through the tackle box and cleaning fish.

my wife is a philipina and she grew up fishing with a bamboo stick and also digging in the shallow muddy creek waters and pulling out catfish. She is a keeper? and so is your fish.

The curse of the Red River in fargo nd for me has been broken, repeat broken. I changed my fishing style on the red today, no more lures just lazy fishing with a 1/2 oz black and orange round head jig with a 3 inch gulp minnow dunked in spike it yellow garlic juice also using a fixed bobber 4 feet up from jig and 80lb fluoro leader to protect from the rocks and the pike. I sat in my chair with my phone in my pocket wearing earbuds listening to some lawyer talk show called handel on the law. I casted about 25 yards into the fast current and my bobber would float 20 yards to the left and then the eddy current would bring it 20 yards to the right and then a few minutes later it would end up 5 feet in front of me. I did this repeatedly and was just chillin and almost fell asleep. I then needed to adjust my phone so as i grabbed phone out of my pocket and was now looking for a new podcast to listen to. My pole being clamped tight between my knees bent and the line was coming off the spool as i had the drag set very light so i could mess with phone and now i had phone, ear buds cord and rod all in my right had and didnt know what to do first so i started reeling in but drag was light so had to adjust drag then put phone in pocket, started reeling in again. I landed a channel catfish. First fish i caught in the red since 1978 when i was in high school. No snags, no pressure, no worries and i caught a fish and gave it away to a fellow whom was fishing for catfish to eat. First pic is where i was fishing just below the dam, 2nd pic fish, and 3rd pic is where i caught it 5 feet from the concrete waterline.

the Red river running through fargo nd, snag after snag. I havnt had any luck this year but am going to change my tactics. Instead of using lures i am going to fish it lazy style using a bobber and gulp minnows. The river is only 10 minutes from the house and i will fish it when i am in my i dont care attitude and just passing time.