Lake Winnipeg 2021/2022

CatDaddy

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Fishing was good last Saturday Sunday and Monday for numbers of fish, most in that 18-22 inch range.
Saturday night what was a 1 ft pressure ridge north of prudens blew up into a 6-8 ft impassable sucker for a long ways. So we fished the south side of it in 11 ft and at 10:30 my buddy caught a hell of a nice fish in the video below.
As far as fishing for us allot has changed since 2020, the water is WAY clearer from zebra mussels maybe??
Anyways the days of big fish flying in and crushing anything being ripped that rattles seems to be almost over for us anyways. Deadsticks with spoons definitely caught the bigger fish for us. A rattle bait worked to bring them in on the livescope and then just subtle jigging with a spoon with a live minnow on seemed to work best for us. The 18-22 inchers still crushed the rattle stuff but the big girls seemed gun shy. Tried the mouth yesterday morning, lots of fish but many were like 10 inches think we caught one 23 incher and so we moved east. Thats our report anyways, good luck!
Here's a little video of our best one.


Dang right that makes the trip...Congrats to the fisherman!
 


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Fishing was good last Saturday Sunday and Monday for numbers of fish, most in that 18-22 inch range.
Saturday night what was a 1 ft pressure ridge north of prudens blew up into a 6-8 ft impassable sucker for a long ways. So we fished the south side of it in 11 ft and at 10:30 my buddy caught a hell of a nice fish in the video below.
As far as fishing for us allot has changed since 2020, the water is WAY clearer from zebra mussels maybe??
Anyways the days of big fish flying in and crushing anything being ripped that rattles seems to be almost over for us anyways. Deadsticks with spoons definitely caught the bigger fish for us. A rattle bait worked to bring them in on the livescope and then just subtle jigging with a spoon with a live minnow on seemed to work best for us. The 18-22 inchers still crushed the rattle stuff but the big girls seemed gun shy. Tried the mouth yesterday morning, lots of fish but many were like 10 inches think we caught one 23 incher and so we moved east. Thats our report anyways, good luck!
Here's a little video of our best one.



That damn Grant mocking me with his Canuck spoon!
 

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Two of us fished all day saturday and until 3pm sunday. Very slow and the blizzard saturday afternoon didn't help us at all. About 25 fish total. Kept a limit of 19-21" but only one big fish for the weekend at 28". Still a really fun trip but probably my last for this season due to family events coming up. Still lots of snow and lots of ice up there. Saw one guy getting around on an atv but everything else was tracked. 12" extension got through everywhere except a few spots right next to a ridge.
 


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Made it up for the last weekend of ice fishing. Ice was in great shape, you could drive pickup almost anywhere you wanted until you hit the pressure ridge. Lots of pickups on one side of the ridge and then ATV's, Rangers and snowmobiles on the other side. 5 guys caught over 100 fish for the weekend, but nothing majorly huge. 26" was the biggest of the weekend, but lots of 20-23 inch fish that would just crush the bait. Got to fish with a Humminbird Mega Live that one of the guys brought...wow is that fun.

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