North Metro Report 12/14

[Cletus]

Got out for a few hours tonight. Nothing extravegant to report... but did pull in a nice small haul.

I started out drilling about half a dozen holes. Already getting dark, I figured I better drop the Marcum down and see if I can't find a hole to set up shop.

Within 30 seconds of dropping the Genz bug tipped with red Euro_Larva down, I had my answer. I set the house up on 16' FOW. I immediately had lookers... but wiht the bug and euro, had no takers. After 10 mins of lookers, I switched over to my St Croix legend Lite rod and 2# P-line to a Genz worm tipped with a waxie. Within 30 seconds, I had my first taker and pulled in a nice 12" crappie.

That Crappie would, unfortunately, be the take of the day. After that, the Genz worm and waxie would pull in about a dozen sunnies and crappies ranging from 8-12 inches. Was a nice pull for only a couple hours... but following the plan I had, all fish were released to fish again (hopefully) tomorrow. Key today was the finesse jigging using the spring bobber and Genz worm tipped with a waxie. Although the action was not fast and furious... the action was more than what warranted changing up with a different presentation than what was thrown at them. I am anticipating that the panny action should be heating up tomorrow morning before the so-called snow heads in!!! If you have the chance... head out and slam them pannies while the getiting is good!!!

[Matt Johnson]

Great report Dave! Thanks for sharing. Gotta love those slab crappies!

[chris63]

So called snow?Is it called something else? c63

[BoxMN]

Was out this morning on North Metro lake. About 13 FOW, with 3 tipups and one jigging rod. Got one small pike on sucker, one empty flag on shiner, and one 30+ pike on shiner, about 2 feet off bottom.

Caught about 10 sunnies, 3 of them were decent, and about half a dozen perch, one was decent. Tried waxies, but no takers, switched to minnow heads and they seemed to like that, on Genz bugs. We got out late, about 10 am and left at 1 pm. So not fast and furrious, but we didn't work too hard at it

[Shack]

Cletus,

Nice report! Genz bug was a bust for me tonight. I gave it a couple of shots, with no action. I will give this, I was switching to it when it was slow in the action.

[Cletus]

Thanks, Shackbash! I will not say that the bug will always produce... but one thing to keep in mind is that there are a LOT of things you can do to change up your presentation without changing lures. Couple examples, changing the live bait presentation will cause the lure to act and look different... waxies, eurolarva, minnowhead, etc. You can change up the position of the knot on the lure making it react different to your jigging technique. And CHANGE the jigging technique. Everything I just mentioned here is like changing up the lure a couple dozen times. This can result in more hits and more time with your lure spent in the water.

[Shack]

Good advice. Don't get me wrong, I love my Genz bug, but last night I think I had it down when no fish where around .

First time out this years and I think I was play'in, more than fish'in.

[cRaPpiEMaN8265]

Box,

You do realize you were illegal with 4 lines in the water dont you? you can only have 2 in MN...

Ryan

[Ebiz]

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Box,

You do realize you were illegal with 4 lines in the water dont you? you can only have 2 in MN...

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So not fast and furrious, but we didn't work too hard at it

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He said WE

[rcook72]

I kinda thought the same thing at first but if you read the last sentence it says "WE" got a late start.--------------- Not much action for me friday. was in 13ft. some lookers and when we were packing up my brother asked me if I saw his tip up. I said yeah its rigth in front of you can't you see that flag standing up.... took about 2 seconds until we realized OH Flag in the up position= fish. Kinda funny but cool to get the first flag of the year out of the way. Little snake but good ending to our outting.

[BoxMN]

It was definitely "we" not me, but I see I didn't say "we" at the start of my post. I actually am a 110% "legal" angler and hunter, down to the little details, and don't go with people who break or bend the rules (to my knowledge). But I do appreciate you bringing it up in case I was wrong.

I even used to be a volunteer water patrol on the western burb lakes, but haven't been for years now. You'd be surprised at a couple of the tickets I wrote out, weird ones, but I didn't like writing tickets.

Anyway, "we" were two of us Two lines are enough for me. I wish we could have two in summer, but until we can, I will use only my one.

Oh yeah, fished the lake across the road from that one Sunday night, and no flags and half dozen crapps and half dozen sunnies, no perch, no walleyes.

[cRaPpiEMaN8265]

oh i see sorry i jumped to a conclusion to quickly... for some reason i thought he said I had 3 tipups. ok nevermind then...