Bass Fishing / Water Temp update – Central Minnesota ( St. Cloud Area )

I was able to get out fishing both last night and this Morning. Last night I fished a rather small Prairie pothole kind of lake. The fishing wasn’t as good as I had hoped it would be. This is only the second time I’ve fished this lake and was hoping to find lots of bass up shallow. Did not find many shallow. The wind made it a little difficult to do a good job of seeing if there was fish there and it was a little hard to fish the stick baits I really wanted to fish. Ended up switching to moving baits ( Chatterbait shallow and Rattletrap and Jerkbait mid depth ) Managed one real nice LM on the chatterbait shallow and a few smaller fish. Moved out a little deeper on the edge of a flat in 6-9 FOW and picked up two Midsized SM, 1 nice LM, several small LM, and way to many pike
Water temps were 65-67

Made a early morning run to a different local lake and caught a ton of fish in shallow water on stickbaits. Most of the fish were smaller buck bass but did manage a few in the 3Lb. range. Reeds and New Pads seemed to hold the most fish ( Water temps here were in the 67-68 range and I would guess it will be close to 70 by mid day.

The funny thing was yesterdays lake was smaller, Darker, and much shallower and it was the cooler of the Two lakes. I would have thought it would have been the opposite.

Sounds like a VG trip especially that it was only the 2nd trip out there.

I’m going to go out after work tomorrow and try to catch some greenies. I’m banking on them being shallow. But I’ll be set up for a little bit of everything

I was out Monday and Wednesday on my favorite East metro Bass lake. Monday was pretty slow. Water temps were 60-61 degrees, and I saw quite a few fish sitting on beds. The only fish I caught were smaller males.

Yesterday the water temps were at 65 degrees all over the lake. And the Bass were much more active. Several 18-19 inch liked the topwater I was throwing. It wasn’t “lights out” fishing, but it should only get better as we head into summer.

SR

Steve Root wrote:

Several 18-19 inch liked the topwater I was throwing.

Were you tossing that homemade fly lure you used last season Steve?

I was out last weekend
Spring – south metro 55 degrees – nothing was biting shallow or otherwise for us or any of the other boaters we talked to ( Bass/Walleye fishing)
Minnetonka the next day 55 degree water 5-7 feet northerns and 1.5-2lb Bass near Echo Bay and up in Black Lake on the Northern side 61 degrees and smaller Bass

I was using a big black Popper like this one. The body is commercially available foam. The tail is Marabou, and there are rubber legs and stick-on eyes. The hook is a Tiemco 8899.

SR

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