Canadian Crappies

Pretty well packed and ready for the big Canadian trip, head up Friday. Hope for a great week.Fishing here has not been good all summer, too hot for me. Mainly we catch bunches of really nice small mouth and some large mouth Bass. I usually average 30 to 40 a day. they all go back in. I want to really try to find the crappy this trip. I know they kill them in the spring, nice big black crappy. I could never find them in the fall and kind of gave up. Last year the last day we were there a guy came in with a big basket full of beauties. So I am going to devote an hour or so each day trying to locate some. Water to over 200' deep, lots of coves, feeder creeks and massive weed beds. Try to get a good report out after we get home if I do any good. I'm sure no one wants to see bass pictures!!:fish:fish:fish

Good luck hopefully you find some nice slabs!!!!!

Hope you get some!!

Good luck an have fun . I think the hard part will be keeping the Walleye an Northern off the baits.

Have a safe trip. We'll be looking for a good report and good luck.

Knock em in the head!!

Good luck!

Good luck have fun trip. If you have a flasher bring it. Also a short rod like 5ft. so you can see your jig. just hang the xducer over the side or fish below your trolling motor xduce if you use a motor. Just like ice fishing. Don't tell anyone I told you this.

Good luck and I will be looking forward to seeing some of your fish pictures.

You taking UR boat?

Be sure to check shallow wood in 8 to 12 ft water. Black crappies stay shallow all year. Bobber and a small jig will fill up the boat when you find them. Check over tops of weed ends too. Watched a video last week with them slamming big black slabs fishing that way. Think it was Krappie Kings video. Check you tube. It's a very good watch.

Have fun, good luck and I look forward to seeing some pics of those nice Canadian crappie!

Don't know where your heading to but the crappies have been great on Rainy Lake all summer ...the only time I fish shallow is during the spawn. ..I like 25 ft of water....in july i fish about 10 to 15 down in 25 ft...but now the cool temps at night are starting to push them to the bottom

Have fun. I was in Canada two weeks ago and spent my time catching Northern and Smallies. I can catch Crappie all day long here.

I did look for Crappie while I was out fishing, however one thing I noticed was a lack of wood in the water. Most of the water was either rocks, weeds, or sand. Hardly any wood. I did mark one school of Crappie while charting a lake. Never tried my luck on them. Not sure where you are going, however minnows were $5 a dozen a Sand Point Lodge, north of Crane Lake.

One thing I did notice is that on the US side my Humminbird didn't have contour lines of the lakes, Got a couple miles into Canada and the next morning my Humminbird had contour lines of the all the lakes in the area, soon as I got to the US side, the contours went away. I tried to buy a map chip for Canada before my trip, however LakeMaster doesn't sell one. I wonder if they Canadians make the lake maps free?

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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

You taking UR boat?

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Yep! PONDTOON is ready for it's second Canadian adventure!! Did real well last year! lots of islands, coves and protected water to hang around in. Very comfortable, have trolling motor, fish finders, padded seats, flat floors. Much better than the stripped down Lund rental boats the rest of the crew fish out of. We switch partners everyday, we are all old and I think they look forward to their day on the PONDTOON. Luckily everyday is PONDTOON DAY for me. Hope they are biting!!:fish

I can not believe this just happened to me. The Canadian Trip is off. I have been having problems with a recurring medical situation for about a week.Taking my meds and hoping it would go away like it usually does.Vehicle was packed just had to hook up the boat. Woke up at 6A feeling worse than ever. Figured no way I could travel two days like this and couldn't take a chance on getting up there and getting worse. See Dr. at 3P today. There is a country song that talks about "if you want to hear God laugh just tell him your plan". Hope I get squared away and maybe get a couple local trips in, that's about the best I can do. Very upsetting!!:bash

Hey "Zinger", if those pesky walleye bother you, you can always send
'em my way. I'd be happy to take them off your hands.
Good luck out there and be safe!
Tight Lines - Dave

Hope things improve for you Zinger.

Take care of yourself first the fish will be waiting on you later. Besides they may even have a chance to grow a little bigger. Hope you get better soon.

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Yep! PONDTOON is ready for it's second Canadian adventure!! Did real well last year! lots of islands, coves and protected water to hang around in. Very comfortable, have trolling motor, fish finders, padded seats, flat floors. Much better than the stripped down Lund rental boats the rest of the crew fish out of. We switch partners everyday, we are all old and I think they look forward to their day on the PONDTOON. Luckily everyday is PONDTOON DAY for me. Hope they are biting!!:fish

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You could come here to lower Canada.

Health first, then go to lower Canada. Lots of great places just north of Minnesota.