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DULUTH AREA Island Lake is giving up crappies over 20 to 30 feet and walleyes in 15 feet. On Rice Lake, walleyes can be had with minnows in less than six feet. Muskies are hitting large sucker minnows if you can find them or crankbaits on Island and the St. Louis. Grouse hunting has been […]

FAIRMONT AREA Walleyes are hitting minnows in the deep holes of the Blue Earth River or in eight to 12 feet of water during the day and two to six feet at night on Hall Lake and Budd Lake. The channels between lakes Hall, Budd, and Sissiton are kicking out both sunfish and crappies during

LAKE MINNETONKA AREA Large sucker minnows are triggering muskies on the weed-covered points in 12 feet at Lake Minnetonka and Lake Independence. You’ll find a few crappies suspended over 25 feet or more on both lakes. Duck hunters are seeing a few more mallards, but hunting action as a whole has been limited. Wayzata Bait

ALEXANDRIA AREA Large sucker minnows are becoming tough to find, but if you can, they are producing muskies on Lake Miltona in 10 to 14 feet. Minnows and jigs are turning walleyes in 15 to 45 feet at Lake Ida and Lake Miltona or in 16 to 24 feet on lakes Carlos, Le Homme Dieu,

LAKE MILLE LACS The number of people fishing for walleyes has been so minimal that it’s been just about impossible to get a fishing report. Now that water temperatures have dropped, tullibees are moving onto the rock reefs and muskies seem to have followed them, which has brought out a few more muskie anglers. They are