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What's Working Now?Fishing Reports.


Deitz Dittrich

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Greetings,

Last week or so have hardly caught anything. Up till a 6 weeks ago worms were good but bow spinners were not. Then about 3 weeks ago the worms stoped working and I was catching them on Bow Spinners.

This last week nothing has been good. But today I went out from 12 to 2:15 and caught 10, but only landed 4. All on Green Pumpin worms. One took my hook about 5' from me. I caught him 2 hours later and he did not get away. But he had swalowed the hook and my worm. I was able to cut the line that was sticking out of his gullet. 5 others were able to get away. 2 when I had the drag set low and forgot to set it higher. But I got them all within 7' or closer.

Then I went back out at 6:10 till 7:30 and caught 6 more. 4 on the first 4 casts. Would have probably caught more but I tried another color and was not that successfull. Then went back to the Green Pumpin and caught the rest. Landed them all.

They are a real pain. I am standing in the water with high boots. Got a net with me, but not necesarily easier for me. Dont want to drop my R&R in the water and they get to swim most of the way to me. They are bitting real slowly and real gently. You would think they were sunnies or baby bass. They play with it and if you ty to set to early you miss them and too late the either have swallowed it and you hook them in the tonge or towards the gills, or you miss them.

Anyway. Was fun to have that much action. Think if I would have had a boat and drove around they would have jumped in my boat at my like those Flying Wallenda carp.

Peace and Blessings

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Think its possible lakes have turned here in the metro? I fished an east metro lake today for a few hours and the lake had scum floating and was signicantly clearer than just wednesday when I was out. The water temp was in the upper 50s.

Fishing was pretty slow but considering the conditions we were faced with I was happy that we managed a few bass. Jig and pigs fished very slow produced a few fish but suspending pointers produced the best. You had to let the bait suspend for long periods and watch your line, the fish would not hit a moving bait.

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Got back out today, fished for about 6 hours. Caught 14 fish over 14 inches, biggest three were just over three pounds. Didn't find anything schooled up, just one here and there. Variety of things were working, some on a crankbait, some on a chatterbait, some on a senko. Don't think the lakes are turning up here yet. Just nice to be out. Caught a few pike during the course of the day also.

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Greetings,

What do you mean by 'turned up'?

The water a few weeks back was getting somewhat green on top. But nothing like it did up on MNTKA when I was a kid.

With the storms down here the water has been moving a lot and a bit of mud and such have been dumped into the small lake I fish. I am surprised they can even find the bait!

Peace and Blessings

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It's mouth closed and tail pinched to measure wink.gif

That's way bigger than any bass I caught this year. So I saw you took Dan out, when are you going to take me confused.gif

Also, how did the lil ice shanty treat ya last year? The chain helps to keep the wind out eh?

Later, nice fish and I'm putting a GPS locator on your rig grin.gif

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I don't need to pinch no tail. smirk.gif

Ebass, your more than welcome to jump in my boat. Shoot me email sometime if you wanna go out. Now regarding the ice shanty... it was awesome! It was really nice to have a flip over since I move around so much, and those chains really helped keep the wind out. Best investment I made last year. grin.gif

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Fished Crooked this afternoon for some bass. Fishing was slow, but we did manage a few nice fish on sinking minnows and spinnerbaits in 6-8 feet of water. The rain and cold weather seemed to shut things down.

I got this one on a cinnamon colored Gulp sinking minnow. She measured 20.5 inches and was a tad under 5 pounds. img0599sm9.th.jpg

My buddy Jeff got this one on a spinner, we estimated it weighed around 3 lbs

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Got out friday for about 3.5 hours with a friend, we managed to capture 12 fish. one nice fish, just over 5 on the digital scale, should have had the digital camera. Again, nothing bunched up, but did discover a semi-pattern for a tournament next weekend. Will see if it holds up on one more trip pre-fishing. Other fish were in the usual 1.5 to just over three range. Nice day to be on the lake. Day was cut short by an appointment in the metro area.Fished from about 11:00 to 2:30pm

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Hello

I am a Missouri fisherman who just spent 8 days fishing from the Faribault area up to the Twin Cities area and I have to say you guys have some great water to fish. I have been coming to this board for the last 2 months to research for my trip and I have enjoyed reading your guys comments and tactics that you guys use. I fish around 80 days per year, mostly in the Missouri/Arkansas/Oklahoma area, so it was nice to see some new water and try some of our tactics around here up North.

Here is the list of lakes my buddy and I fished

Cedar Lake

Tetonka

Frances

Washington

Sheilds

O'Dowd

Prior

Auburn

Steiger

Minnewashta

Waconia

Kelly & Dudley

We tried to fish some others but couldn't get the bass boat off the trailer. During our trip we caught 3 just over 5lbs, 17 in the 4lb+ range, and I honestly couldn't tell you how many 2.5lb to 3.5lb bass we caught during the week but it was a lot plus we caught around 50 pike which was pretty fun also. I love fishing shallow water and the deepest I caught any bass this week was probably 3 feet. Minnewashata, Waconia, O'Dowd, Prior, and Shields were by far the best lakes we fished with most of quality 4-5lb fish coming from those lakes. Caught just about all of the fish on spinnerbaits and jigs with a few on horny toads, buzzbaits, and senkos.

Here is a pic of one of the 5lb fish

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You guys have great fisheries and I really enjoyed my time up there. If any of you ever need any info concerning SW Missouri bass fishing just let me know.

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Fished the last tournament of the year on Sunday. Sauk Lake, 14 boats. Pretty low key event. Small entry fee. 2 days of 30 plus winds from the S/SE prior to and then a switch to 15 to 20 out the NW. Nice little cold front to make it just little more difficult.

I drew Boat # 1 and basically had my choice of the lake. Went to the spot I caught a five at in pre-fishing, 3rd cast tagged a 3.38, my biggest fish of the day. Got it on a spinnerbait over the top of the coontail, about 4 feet deep. Caught my five by 11:00, culled out couple smaller fish over the course of the day. Mainly on spinnerbaits, traps and cranks. All my fish came in coontail, a pad bite I had going in pre-fishing disapeared. Lot of the pads were gone after the wind was blowing in on them, probalbly blew the fish out also. Checked deeper in the same area, they just weren't going.

Somebody always finds them though. 1st place went to a 5 fish 21+ bag, with a big fish that went 5.94, with another that was not to far behind that one. Second place dropped down to 17+ and then to 16+. Lots of bags in the 11 to 13 lb range. Mr. 21+ wasn't giving up to many secrets on how and where he got em.

Overall a good day on the lake given the conditions. Now on to Roosters on Saturday morning and maybe some bass on Sunday after church.

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I forced myself to use topwater lures on sunday. From 10 am to 1 pm caught 5 bass 2 pike around the edges of lilly pads. I also missed a few early but man topwater is a blast. Usually I use what I consider "more productive" techniques, but I missed the good ole days of fishing for fun and not numbers. grin.gif Plus I missed the first half of the vikes game, which was a good thing. grin.gif

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I was out Sunday and, I too, forced myself to use topwaters for at least half of my outing. It was a gas! Had some big ones miss it and ended up catching 8 or 9 with the biggest at 18 inches. I caught a few with a 10 inch worm and the rest came on Senkos(old reliable)! They didn't seem to want spinners or cranks. The cold front came through and they shut down. Caught about 20 total.

Indian summer is coming this weekend and I think the fish are going to be hungry!!

Good luck to all that are still on the water! I'll be out until mid-November.

Hey Deitz, Got time for one more outing?

Ole

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Scott,

I'm heading out tomorrow (I think). Where abouts are you headed and what are you planning on using for presentations?

I think most people are done bass fishing (except us hardcores) and are busy hunting. This, to me, is when it really gets going from now till mid November.

Ole

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