WHAT IS UP???

[farmislandeye]

I went to red lake 3 days monday-wednesday. I caught around 5 crappies and about 90 eyes. I wouldof liked the eyes but i cant keep them! Did anyone have any luck? What did i do rong???

I need help goin up this weekend!

[Deitz Dittrich]

I was out there on Sunday evening and much of Monday.. and my group did quite well.. The thing with this lake is to not stay in one area if its not producing. This lake has litteraly no structure to speak of.. So the fish roam! Its up to you to then find them.

[Northlander]

As Dietz said you have to move around a lot. The days of plopping down on fish are over. We were lucky and had about 15 guys working in unison and keeping in touch via radio. Some of the party hit some Crappie here and there but only the 1 small group that Dietz, Paul and I were part of really got into the Crappies well. Even at that it was a fast and furious bite for only about a half hour then it was one here one there and you had to work them.

If your in a spot and by 5pm or so you havent had a Crappie I would be moving till I found some. At times you have to move only a few times but at others it can be frustrating and you never get into them. Most often though if you put the work of moving around into it you will get a few for the effort.

My best bite was from 6:40pm to about 7:10pm. Big Glow demond with a full chub worked better than shiners. That rig outfished the glow moon jig under a bobber about 10 to 1. Later when the fish got a bit more fussy a Glo Bug with some Lindy Glow Tails and a small minnow head tricked them.

When they are hot you can really get them on anything I believe.

This is why we call it fishing and not catching.

[RobertE]

It's also help when you get the GPS coordinates from where the fish were biting the night before

[hanson]

RobertE-

I don't have any faith in that system at all. I've fished spots up there one night and have done very well. So I decide to go back to the exact same set of holes the next night and I'm skunked. What's up with that? I don't want to be the guy to give out a bum set of GPS coordinates.

The one simple rule that will work for you on Red if you are ready to put in the work is move, move, move until you find fish.

5-6 years ago, it wasn't that difficult to catch crappies up on Red. But with the booming popularity of that lake and the shear numbers of fisherman fishing on a given night, it doesn't surprise me to run into a tough bite every time you go up there.

[Northlander]

Ya I also have had what Hanson has had. We were up there last year and hit them really good one night. Went back in the AM and got 2 Crappies. We sat in that area all day hoping it would turn on and we got NOTHING. The schools of Crappies arent as big anymore and they seem to be roaming a lot.

If you get lucky you can find the areas the Crappies are using as their travel pathways and do well for several nights in a row but those usually dry up after several god nights as well.

Burning auger gas and doing some moving around a bit is really the only way to go. Now if you have a bunch of guys to make the narrowing down process easier I would highly recomend that.

[Quackaddict9]

I read that some of you said that one night you did well then go back to the same holes the next day and get skunked? Well it was a different story for me and my 3 friends last year during our spring break, we fished the first day out of Rogers and got 12, the next day we started the same holes and we were there a little early and got bored so we moved over out of Morts and we caught 37, then the next day we went to the same excat holes, we had 2 ice houses, one was 15 yds and had 2 holes, me and a friend had our house and had 3 holes and we limited out in 3 hours. And then the two boys left and me and a friend and 2 different friends went out for the last time for the year and we got 13 the same area, not same holes so that was interesting, I hear the same reports as you do, i guess we were lucky they were still there?