FishFever

Traveled to Mille Lacs on Saturday AM in the rain/sleet on my way to the Brainerd area. Hearing that the perch, walleyes and tulibees were biting i had to try it for a few hours. Found a few decent perch and a tuli in 30' of water off one of the flats but didn't have enough time to figure anything out. Headed to Brainerd around noon and went to East Twin just north of Nisswa. According to the DNR this 160 acre lake has a good supply of 7+ inch sunfish. After punching about thirty holes ranging from 8 to 31 feet deep I finally found some fish in 29 feet. The first sunfish I caught was a solid 8 incher. I got a couple more decent ones then the school scattered. Drilled several more holes searching for the magic depth and found a nice pile of fish again in the same depth about fifty yards away. These fish were tight to the bottom but were willing to come up once you got your bait within a few feet of them. I caught about thirty fish out of this one hole and the largest sunfish was just under 10 inches. As always on these little lakes I practice selective harvest and throw back the majority of the fish I catch. This was my first outing on East Twin and found it to be a fairly productive lake with very little fishing pressure(only three permanent houses). The only drawback was several of the sunfish had a lot of the black parasites in them and a couple actually had the white worm/parasites. I will be heading back to East Twin but probably just to do some catch and release fishing for big bull gills. This would be a good back-up lake in the open water season for days when the wind/weather makes it tough on the bigger lakes. After this I went to my final destination which was Ossawinnamakee. The crappies were biting the night before I got there but they were shut down on Saturday(weather?). Oh well, played some poker and had a few cold beverages to end a full day of fishing. Should be fishing some metro lakes this week and/or weekend.
Submitted by coreyg on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 10:04am.
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