Turtle Lake Area

[phishhead]

First of all as much as it pains me to say being a Vikings fan - Good Luck to the Packers! Now that I got that out of the way, some friends and myself are taking our wives to stay at the casino in Turtle Lake to do some ice fishing. We did this last year but we didn't have much luck fishing. I really want the girls to have a good time so I was just wondering if anyone had a good spot nearby that we could catch some nice bluegils. We are going to be fishing Saturday, March 8th and depending on how much beer we drink Saturday night we might fish Sunday morning also - so probably just Saturday. I'm hoping to get up there and poke around and try to find a good spot but I don't know if that is going to happen. I usually just go with the guys and we do pretty good moving around until we find them but we are bringing a bigger shack for the girls to use and we won't be very mobile. Any advice would be great. I'm not asking for gps coordinates but a general area would be nice. Thanks in advance.

[Walleye Guy]

Phishhead you have mail.....

[Nick Kuhn]

That entire area is a perfect example of how overfishing leads to small fish. Camelia used to be an excellent catch and release lake. It was fished out in a single ice season though (people discovered there were fish in there). Magnor (where my cabin is) has a seemingly unlimited population of smallish panfish. Again though heavy fishing pressure means there aren't many perch, gills, or crappies over 8 inches. The Apple River Flowage also has a ton of small gills. I've fished the rest of the lakes in the area but not for panfish. I would guess it's more of the same though, as they all have equally poor gamefish populations.

[vman59]

Weds afternoon on the way by Upper turtle there was a guy with an atv off the SE shore.

[vman59]

the gills are biting on Upper Turtle lake. The bite is excellent with very good size. my two sons got their limits yesterday and were very picky with the size only keeping the big bulls.

[vman59]

fished up turtle tonight , did very well on nice gills and even a few nice jumbo perch.