Panfish Locations

[DLD24]

Where has everyone been finding the crappies and gills lately???

I have been out the last two mornings in the Cloquet area and have found the crappies to be on the edge of the deepest hole in the lake early and then slide down into the hole as the day goes on....They have been aggressive when I've found them....

Edited March 2, 2016 by DLD24

[CamozKool]

Cloquet?? Hows the ice up there??, myself, I've been hitting the Kandiyohi/StearnsCounty area lakes, This past weekend there was about 15-17 inches of soft ice (lot of wind too) so we walked, the crappies were hanging around the deep water basin lip areas (roughly in 25 ft.) during the day and moving up on the structure as the day progressed, although we did find some off the beach areas or about 12-15 ft (dead weed area I think) eventually they turned on heavy an hour or so after sundown in 17ft... and wouldn't you know it, the walleyes started hitting too, where were they prior to season close... perch were basically catch at will with waxies and the sunnies were few and far between, but they were nice between 8n9 inches, eatable I guess... I was hoping to get in more ice time but the weather is making things difficult, probably go north this weekend, maybe Park Rapids or Bemidji area... That's my update...just thought I'd share, hope I didn't break any rules...

[DLD24]

We still have quite a bit of a ice, but it's getting soft and a lot of water on the ice...We were supposed to be going up to LOW this weekend but it's sounding like we might not be able to get out so we might hit the blackduck area for pannys 

[CamozKool]

I had similar thoughts but was thinking about Elephant... haven't been up that way in twenty years or more...

its a drive to the Black Duck but is a nice area... I think elephant is near by if memory serves me...