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Need some help
First off....would like to say hello to all....I am coming up and spending a week on crane lake in june....i would like to start by saying i WILL NOT be keeping any fish that we catch...i know this is a crappie forum but i have been reading that the smallmouth are plentiful??? i have never caught one and would love to!!! can anyone point me in the right direction as far as what types of baits to bring and colors??? do not want honey holes just a good direction to look and what to look for....if i can ever return the favor for some illinois fishing i would be glad to!!! thanks for any and all help
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Best thing to do is to contact the resort or where ever you are staying up there and ask them to recommend guides. Find out from the guide you select what tackle you may need. A lot of the guides have websites and they are generally pretty full of information. There are smallmouth all over Minnesota; we even catch quite a few in the Mississippi right in downtown Minneapolis. This website may be a place to start: Northern Minnesota Smallmouth Fishing | LIVESTRONG.COM
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Enjoy yourself. That is wild and beautiful country. It is also easy to get lost in; so I would suggest that if you have a handheld GPS that you bring that along with enough spare batteries to keep it working should you need it. While it may be redundant if you hire a guide, it doesn't hurt to take the extra precaution.
Smallmouth were not originally native up there but were stocked in starting over a century ago with colorful tails surrounding that introduction. Tales like pouring cream cans full of fry into virgin waters off railroad bridges. They have done very well apparently without displacing much if any at all of the original fish species.
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