Since I've had my Wheeled house..

[Kylersk]

My panfish action has just about been nil. Prior to owning the wheeled house, I'd take my portable out and almost always come home with a good meal of panfish. Since then, nothing.. And it's not like I moved around alot with the portable. I'd usually pick a spot and fish it for the evening.

Granted, last year I was trying more for Walleyes and did OK as long as it was out of the metro area. This year, my son and I enjoyed our first metro crappie lunch. We had to split 4 whole fish. *sigh*

[broman]

You had to split 4 fish. Lucky you. The other weekend I split 1 small crappie with my son. Gonna go to the pond next weekend and spend a couple days in my wheelhouse (built using your pics, thanks) and take along my portable. Me and a few others are gonna do some run and gun stuff and then settle into the wheelhouse at night. Hopefully you're luck will change, otherwise, time to move the house.

[Kyle Sandberg]

Kyle, this may not be a remady but how deep are you fishing and do you use a generator the entire time. The noise/vibrations coming from the generator and the stuff it powers could have an affect on it.

[Kylersk]

K Dawg,

Currently I'm sitting in about 15 feet of water and no, I do not use the generator the entire time. I'd say about 50% of the time I take it out, maybe less..

[Kyle Sandberg]

Tuff to say. I can't think of anything right know. Try using your portable on a spot one day and the following day put your perm there and compare the resluts. Other than that, it might just be the fish.

[hardwaterguy]

using a generator has no effect on the fishing i use mine all the time out in my perm i catch fish in 17 25 31 foot of water

[Big Dave2]

Hey,

Are you still out on waconia? If so I have also been having a hard time getting any of the pannies to bite the last couple of weeks. Tonight though was much better. I caught more fish tonight than I did in the last 5 trips put together.

It's just been slow and like you said I know that you were targeting Walleyes out there last year, and look at the nice one that you did catch!

[fishinalot]

Hardwaterguy

Maybe the guys around you had louder generators and chased the fish towards you!

[Kylersk]

Big Dave2,

Yes, I'm out on Waconia for now.. Next weekend I'm heading outa town somewhere else to fish.. Just not sure where. When I get back, I'll have to decide where to go on Waconia.

[broman]

If you head to Mille Lacs, let me know where. I would love to take a look at your fishhouse. I'm going up on Friday and coming back Sunday.

[Kylersk]

broman,

I've eliminated Mille Lacs from my list of destinations. Right now It's between Otter Tail or Leech lake.

[hanson]

Most good panfishing is either shallow (weeds) or deep (holes) during the winter. Pretty simple. At 15', you are neither unless you are in a 15' hole surrounded by 5' of water. There are obviously other areas pannies can be had but your higher percentage areas are shallow or deep.

Waconia is pretty metro as far as I'm concerned. Metro panfishing is typically a downsized or finesse approach. Yes... this means 2lb line, size 10-12 lures, and springbobbers. My favorite bait of choice for metro pannies is the eurolarvae. With the couple cold front waves we've had, a guy has to fish small or all the fish will just look. We actually found them pretty darn aggressive in the metro today but we've had a number of stable days of this cold stuff.

I still don't usually start fishing these critters until I've found 3-5' feet of them stacked up off the bottom on my flasher, then I set the house up. Once that happens, its just pick them off the top of the pile all day. They might leave but they'll come back.

[Kidd]

 Originally Posted By: Kylersk

My panfish action has just about been nil. Prior to owning the wheeled house, I'd take my portable out and almost always come home with a good meal of panfish.

Maybe the house is haunted?

[Kylersk]

Hanson,

I've tried all kind of depths so far this year for pan fish. I think I'm on about the 6th or 7th spot this year... In the weeds, on the weed edge, and different area's combining them all. This last move was out of desperation.. none of the above worked, so I decided to try deeper water.

I've had the camera down and havnt seen one sunnie or crappie on it, but tons of perch.

I guess, in the past I only targeted Crappies and have done really well on Waconia, but since I got the cursed wheeled house, I cant catch them for [PoorWordUsage].

Granted, with the wheeled house I'm far less likely to move it and want to try the same spot a few nights before giving up.. But with the portable, I do not remember getting skunked as much as I am now, moving it or not.

[Sandmannd]

Kylersk, I'll gladly take that darn cursed house off your hands.

[Big Dave2]

Kylersk,

I have had my house in 20' FOW all winter. Out of laziness it has not been moved once. Everytime me or anyone else goes out to the house it is the same story. The vex is lit up like a christmas tree, but hardly any willing biters.

That seems to be changing a little though with this change in the weather. There were a lot more willing biters on saturday night than there has been all winter. Most of the crappies were still on the small side but I have caught a few good sized ones and witnessed one very good sized one so far. Perch and sunnies are present all day also.