I live 30 minutes away from Eelpout Fest and always attending there every year. They have great fried pout nuggets and it was delicious. Eelpout is more predatory, much like walleye or perch. Someone caught a 14lbs eelpout this year.
Ice fishing season for me.
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Different baits. Crappies were on red spikes (or maggots), pike on suckers, walleyes on minnow heads and perch on waxies. To be fair I was catch them on different days but in same month lol
WOW, I wish WE had bait stores that had suckers for sale...........
.......I wish our LBS sold more baitfish than Bass/Pike shiners and fathead/rosies
Do you have any IDEA how much time I spend catching baitfish when I go Flathead/Pike/Musky/Striper fishing?
Just go catch some Sunfish, they're a great predator bait. I've also noticed that Northerns like Perch as much as we do
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NOTHING works as good as creek chubs and suckers. I'd rather Pike shiners than sunfish. Just my preference, wider variety of targets, less spines on the baitfish.....easy to swallow most importantlyJust go catch some Sunfish, they're a great predator bait. I've also noticed that Northerns like Perch as much as we do
We cannot use gamefish as bait due to MN regulations, but I've found that sunfish makes great bait for big bass. As for pike, they preferred shiners over perch.Just go catch some Sunfish, they're a great predator bait. I've also noticed that Northerns like Perch as much as we do
If our LBS didn't have any big baitfish, we always hit up the feeder creeks where the big chubs at or a small inlet/outlet where we will catching some giant shiners.
