Most species?

[Nels]

I was just wondering: what is the most # of fish species you have caught in one season of either ice fishing (or open water) here in Minnesota. Did you actually target all of the different kinds?

Nels

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[Jim W]

nels,

My wife and I caught 13 different species in one day on the Mississippi River Pool 8!!

Jim W

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2001-2002 ice fishing season (Last Season):

1)Crappie (Black and White)
2)Sunfish (Bluegill and Pumkinseed)
3)Perch
4)Walleye (One Sauger)
5)Pike
6)Muskie (17-incher)
7)Largemouth Bass
8)Smallmouth Bass (9-incher, LOW)
9)Eelpout (Mille Lacs)
10)Tullipee (Mille Lacs)
11)Catfish (Golden Lake)
12)Golden Shiner (Mille Lacs)
13)Sturgeon (3 pounds, LOW)
14)Whitefish(White Bass) (Devil's Lake)
15)Rainbow Trout (Cenaiko Lake)

First time ever catching Golden Shiners, Sturgeon, or Whitefish ice fishing.

Good Fishin, Matt.

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[Steve Foss]

On one long late May day at the Point in East Grand Forks, Minn., on the Red Lake River:

1. walleye
2. sauger
3. northern pike
4. smallmouth bass (they were introduced almost 20 years ago on the RLR, and have made their way downstream).
5. crappie (They've made a big surge on the RLR, maybe because Upper and Lower Red lakes, the river's source, have exploded with crappies in recent years.)
6. channel catfish
7. stonecat
8. yellow bullhead
9. redhorse sucker
10. sheephead
11. goldeye
12. white bass (I'm not lying. I can't figure out how it got there either. Closest whites are on Devils Lake, so maybe they got out through the coulees to the Sheyenne, which dumps into the Red north of Fargo, and some went up the Red Lake a little bit from the Red. Backwater, what do you think?)
13., 14. Two species of shiner

Caught at other times in the same spot were eelpout, black bullhead, mooneye and some type of chub.

Most were caught on slip bobbers with minnows and crawlers by my wife. I caught the channels by fishing for channels with catfish tackle and live cut bait.

The RLR gets pretty muddy as it closes in on the Red River in EGF, but the thousands of pounds of fish per mile of river the DNR estimates based on sampling is phenomenal, though the actual number escapes me.

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[Ret-ro]

The quad fecta on Upper Red.
Crappie
Perch
Walleye
Pike
Not even close to 13 but lots of fun.

[Duffman]

Fishing Stats for the last three years;
1999
51 days open water
18 days hard water
12 species
23 bodies of water

2000
55 days open water
22 days hard water
17 species
28 bodies of water

2001
53 days open water
19 days hard water
15 species
21 bodies of water

2002 So far.....
43 days open water
19 days hard water
18 species (oops forgot the redhorse)
25 bodies of water

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