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smaller Fishing lakes

minnguy32

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Hello all...Im going to walker mn for fishing opener 2014 but i will be fishing a little more west of walker out of a little town called akeley mn...im hoping to cruise some of the back forest roads in search of a smaller lake that i can slip my 12ft boat in with my lil 4hp sears outboard and try to find a good lil fishing spot...has anyone ever done this??? share your stories...id love to hear about your adventures...man i cant wait for spring...got bad cabin fever...good luck fishin yall..sincerly, Brian from Bloomington MN

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I know of a couple lakes south of Walker about 40 minutes that we use 4 wheel around, one year we finally decided to go and fish one was full of pike like every other cast we would catch one they were all small but it was a ton of fun I have always wanted to go back up and spear it figured it would be fun have little hammer handles flying around all day but don't feel like making the 2+ hour drive.

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I've taken the back roads a few times. I'd suggest a little planning before heading out. I like to pick a lake in the area and look it up on the DNR HSOforum. Choose the far-right column for 'topographic maps' and zoom in with the 1:24000 scale. Look around at the smaller lakes and find the roads that lead to them. Check out the DNR summary for those lakes that look interesting. Coordinate that topo map with Google maps. Check out a local bait shop and you can save a lot of time too. Too many lakes/not enough time.

Many of the small lakes aren't named on the maps but they probably do have a name and may be on the DNR HSOforum.. You'll have to do some digging to get more info on them. The good thing is that you have several months to make a plan.

Good luck!

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