Martin Lake

[JCAMERON]

Has anyone ever fished martin lake in east bethel? Any info is appreciated!

John

[JCAMERON]

I took my wife out onto martin this morning. It was her first time ice fishing so i figured it was crucial that i get her on some fish...
Well... she caught fish, and I didn't. The first fish she caught was a white crappie! ..."Its so pretty!!"... I've never even caught one! next was a nice black crappie. then about 30 min later she hooks into something a bit bigger... gets it up to the hole and in all the excitement just rips it out of the hole, bass master style. So here I am trying to grab this, what i thought to be, pike. I'm watching this thing flail about and thinking, "that looks kinda like a musky... white and gray... Thats a musky!" well before I got a could get a good ruling the thing spits the hook out and dives down the hole. I look at her and say "I think that was a musky, thats amazing, i've never caught one of those, there pretty tough to catch." She's got her heart set on it being a musky and is way proud, as am I.
So my question is... Is it possible for a small lake like martin to hold muskies? If not that this think was an albino pike or something because it was most deffinately white and gray.

[kingfisher1]

First off, good job on geting your newbie (to ice fishing) in fish!  SO important.  Now to your question.  It could have been a muskie, or could have been a lighter coloered pike.  Check lake finder on the DNR website and see if martin has any skis in it.  There's a good possibility that it was a ski.

[thunderpout]

I fished Martin a few years back... good little panfish lake. Sometimes they stock muskies to control panfish numbers if the size of them are stunted....

[jja7983]

We fished martin last weekend and it sucked. 1 crappie in 4 hours other then that not a bite.   no one on the entire lake was getting much of anything.  We tryed every kind of bait lure/jigs you name it and nothing.

[Fishabass]

I live over by Martin and it is not unusual to find Muskies in area lakes. Martin is connected to a lot of lakes, Typo, Linwood.....Their is a good chance that one could have found its way. I am not sure if anyone remembers a few years back Martin was deemed as the dirtiest lake in MN. It is a good lake for the spring opener for eyes. the access sucks though.