Crappie from Back Home!

Just got back from visiting family for Christmas back in northern MN and thought I would share the highlights of the weekend!

Christmas day my father and I headed out on the lake for some quick Crappie fishing before heading to my Grandparents to see the rest of the family. Got on the ice at 0645 and headed back home at 0730 with our limit including this monster 14 inch! Vast majority we 10 inch or just over so we thru one in for comparison! Then on the 26th we headed to Upper Red Lake with a couple of friends for the day and we able to land these 5 legal ones and a handful of Jumbo Perch! We also caught 5 or 6 more Walleye that were just over the slot!Attachment 183811Attachment 183810

Nice love walleyes out of the ice

Sweet! I would love to hit Upper Red, or go to LOW again ice fishing! Loved it!

Looks like some good eat'n ! Nice job

Sounds like a good trip, catching some nice fish and visiting family.

Uff da!!! Nice bunch-O-fish!!!

I tried ice fishing while I lived up there, just couldn't get used to sitting in my Champion in a snowmobile suit on the frozen lake. :dono :Rofl

Congrats to you brings back memories.

Very Nice!!!!

Kinslry27, what part on Mn were you fishing? We fish near Bemidji on a lake called Turtle River Lake and it has nice crappie in them. Did you ever go to Red when they had the monster crappie in them?

zeepo

Sounds like you had a great Christmas trip.
Nice fish

Family,friends and fish I'd say that was a dandy Christmas.

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Originally Posted by zeepo

Kinslry27, what part on Mn were you fishing? We fish near Bemidji on a lake called Turtle River Lake and it has nice crappie in them. Did you ever go to Red when they had the monster crappie in them?

zeepo

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Im from Hill City, just 15 miles south of Grand Rapids and my parents live on Hill Lake... The Crappies came from there. I was up on Red during the monster crappies in one of the very first wheel crank down Ice Castles. My dad knows one of the people who helped invent them. I was only about 11-12 years old when they were biting like that and we always went out of Rodgers resort on the SE Side of Upper Red. Now we make a trip to Red 5-10 times a winter depending on the bite and still go out of Rogers!

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Uff da!!! Nice bunch-O-fish!!!

I tried ice fishing while I lived up there, just couldn't get used to sitting in my Champion in a snowmobile suit on the frozen lake. :dono :Rofl

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It was a balmy 75 in the Ice Castle! just had to reach out the door to grab a nice ice cold beer off the lake!

Looks like Christmas was really good. Nice fish!!!!!

Man that's awesome!