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Report from the Dock

While there were a few days of warm, bright weather during the past week, water temperatures have not risen much. As a result, the majority of better crappie reports continue to come from deep water. There just hasn’t been a big push of panfish into many of the traditional spring spots, even where the ice has been gone for a few weeks. This week’s reports indicated bigger bunches of crappies in the 6 to 12 foot range, some even deeper as they stage outside of bays, channels, and boat harbors. They’re ready to slide up and start feeding more consistently in shallower water, but water temperatures need to climb a few more degrees and stay there. The fish also don’t seem to be super aggressive, meaning the majority of them are being taken with small jigs tipped with minnows or plastics under floats, rather than those casting and retrieving. There’s still a lot of ice across the northern part of the state, but it is deteriorating.

Leech Lake Fishing Report

There was still a lot of main-lake ice early this week, but it was looking soft and rotten. The shorelines have also pulled away throughout the lake; some areas more than others, but the channels have opened. They have started extending sections of open water farther into the lake.

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Report from the Dock It’s remained cool enough during the past week that lake and ice conditions really haven’t changed much. Basically, where people were ice fishing last week, they still could as of Tuesday morning. There’s been little additional deterioration to main-lake ice and shorelines along the far northern part of the state, and […]

Report from the Dock We’re officially winding down to the very end of the ice-fishing season. While there’s still ice to walk on, or possibly use an ATV on in a few areas, the ice-out line seems to be stretching farther north, certainly farther than it was last week. In addition, there have been few […]

Report from the Dock If you want to fish through the ice this weekend, you can do that in the northern half of the state. If you want to fish open water, you can do that as well from the central part of the state and areas south of it. Obviously, the farther north you […]

Report from the Dock While there are still plenty of ice fishing options across the northern part of the state, lakes in central and southern Minnesota are no longer accessible. In the far south, some lakes are already ice-free, and others will follow suit this week. If there’s still ice in place, it’s rotten and […]