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FAIRMONT AREA Crappie action has picked up with minnows along the shoreline of Lake Sissiton, while Budd Lake continues to produce bluegills in four to six feet. Catfish are an easy catch on the shorelines of most lakes with nightcrawlers. Sommer Outdoors (507) 235-5225 MANKATO AREA This week’s weather has prevented anyone from fishing. Prior […]

RED WING AREA Water levels had jumped two feet by Tuesday morning on the Mississippi River and were expected to keep rising throughout the week. But the people that have continued to fish are catching walleyes around eddies and slack-water areas on live-bait rigs tipped with chubs or willow cats. The best sauger action is

LAKE MILLE LACS East – Wind and rain took its toll on the ice and pushed much of it out of the wast side. As of Tuesday morning, there was several hundred yards of open water and black ice beyond it with pockets of open water. Most bays on this end are open. Johnson’s Portside (320)

ALEXANDRIA AREA With the exception of some floating ice on a couple of big lakes, the ice is gone. Crappies are being caught with minnows or plastics in less than four feet along the shorelines and in the bays or lagoons of Reno Lake, Pocket Lake, Lake Le Homme Dieu, and Rachel Lake. Christopherson’s Bait