Lakes around St. Cloud Area

[bassNspear]

Again, not looking for spots, but im jsut curious if anyone around this area spears, and if so, can point me in the right direction to some clear lakes. I have spent all my time this summer on the river, so havent been out on any lakes north or south of st. cloud.

Thanks again.

BNS

[trappingaddiction]

Taking a quick look at LakeFinder it looks like the Spunk lakes are fairly clear (secci disk of 8-9 ft.) and Big Watab (secci disk of 12 ft.) and I am sure they clear up more in the winter. There is a pretty small average size out of Big Watab, but I bet there are a few really nice ones that feed on the stocked trout.

[gixxer01]

Pleasant Lake in Rockville sees alot of spear houses, a guy can usually see bottom in 8-10 FOW. Small-Medium size though. Horseshoe on the chain gets surprisingly clear. 12 FOW and you can still see the bluegills swimming. I would imagine size is better being such a large bowl of water.

[Gordie]

BNS there is Briggs,Julia close by along with Ceader, Clearwater.Birch,Ida, and a buch of other with in 12 miles of the Cloud

Keep in touch buddy

[mrklean]

when i went to school up there i didnt spear but ice fished a ton, Grand was a lake lots of people spear, pearl wasnt bad either if you can sit right outside the weed beds or on top of one i did very well angling pike there, clearwater was a good choice to. School section was a decent lake and its just a big bowl not very deep.

[Arrowbender]

Grew up on Pearl. Speared it exclusively in my youth. More recently it has not been very clear, but when it is the action is intense, just a lot of youngin's. Some nice fish in there to be sure. Just got special reg'd a few years ago. I am hoping this is one that they take off of the list.

Grand is usually clear but really gets a lot of pressure for a small lake. Clearwater is awesome as far as clarity goes and you can see a lot of fish, just not a lot of pike sometimes. I'm sure there are some good spots out there just haven't found them yet. Usually give it several tries each season.

If Pelican by buffalo is clear you really can't beat it.

[bassNspear]

what do you all know about big fish lake north of cold spring

[pushbutton]

Nice lake, clear lake, lots of pike.....just really small and one of the 24-36 inch experimental slot lakes.

[terrible_fisherman]

Eden and vails are very clear some years and terrible others but I have seen some very nice pike in both. For a small lake Vails has a lot of 3lb plus sized versus the snakes you see in so many lakes.

[bassNspear]

i didnt know that big fish lake was a slot lake>??

[pushbutton]

You just made me double check.....interesting side note is that in the six or so years of the slot there has not been any improvement on the size structure, if anything it has gotten a little worse. Looks like they are going to let it go four more years. You need about 750 large to reside out there and all those pesky little pike are not playing nice for the rich folk walleye's stocking program