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Author Topic: pelican lake panfish  (Read 4625 times)

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Offline pheasantman2121

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Finally made it out tonight.  The bite has started water temp was 61 F.  We caught a ton of panfish had to weed through some of the small ones.  All the crappies were between 10 - 12 and all the sunnies were 8 to 10.  There were diffently more sunnies than crappies only ended up keeping 6 crappies and 10 sunnies. Not to bad for 3 hrs of fishing
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Offline pheasantman2121

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Went back out there on wednesday and the water warmed up to 63 F and the crappies were biting alot better on wednesday.  We ended up keeping 15 crappies and 8 sunnies. Just thinking that I will ahve to go back out again tonight and see how we do
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Offline MTCOMMER

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Which Pelican Lake are you fishing?

 :fishing2:  NICE SUCCESS, it sounds like a panfish are biting all over the place!  IM JEALOUS!

Offline pheasantman2121

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The lake is out by monticello
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Offline pheasantman2121

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went out this morning again to pelican and the water has cooled off alot water temp was only 55 to 57.  Did manage to catch alot of crappies still and a few sunnies.  I ended up coming home with my 10 crappies nothing huge all where around 10 inches.  i found the fish to ne deeper today compared to 2 weeks ago
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Offline kayakgal

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Are there any Northerns, Walleyes, or Bass? We're looking at possibly going there this weekend but couldn't find much info about the species and sizes. Also, what are the launches like?
Do you know what the launch is like on Clearwater? That might also be an option for us. We haven't been to either. A friend said the launch at Clearwater was really shallow and didn't put his boat in however that was last summer when all the lakes were down.
Please reply.
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Kayakgal
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Offline pheasantman2121

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There are northern and bass and panfish in this lake.  There is only one access and it is not the best access but it has a dock and alot of parking area but it is kinda shallow.  I dont know any thing about clearwater
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Offline thehunterteen

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I live right by that accsess, and we use it all the time. we havent had much luck on that lake, but caught a few every once in a while. here is a warning to all boaters on that lake: in the middle of the lake, there is a shallow submerged sand island, with very large boulders that are about 2 inches below the surface of the water. it is very deep all around this island, but there are lots of stumps there too. we got lucky and saw the rocks before we hit them with the boat, but some others werent so lucky. we were finding pieces of props, chunks of boat hulls, and we also found the entire lower unit from somebodys boat motor there. heads up for everyone boating on this lake, as it can be very dangerous.
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