
Early spring ice-out crappie tips and techniques – Video
Tips and strategies you can use to track down and catch big slab crappies right after ice-out.

Tips and strategies you can use to track down and catch big slab crappies right after ice-out.

Secrets and tips for springtime crappie fishing, including presentations and gear, as well as locations, water temperature and additional things to consider.

On the better days this spring, the warmer days that is, anglers have been having a blast with crappies on Lake Minnetonka.

There were crappies and some bluegills starting to be caught in many areas last week, but most of those bites have slowed this week and weather conditions really haven’t allowed people to fish for them.

Walleye fry continue to be stocked annually, and with some improvement in water quality and a natural reduction in the bigmouth buffalo population, the hope is that Fox will return to the outstanding fishery it

Some of the basics in finding and catching these highly desirable fishes.

DNR’s most recent survey of the lake provided good news for anglers.

Bass getting most of the attention as state waterways/fisheries warm up.

Right now, there are hundreds of anglers with freezers full of black crappies and yellow perch following another productive ice fishing season.
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