lol right when i read this he said that

Brayden same

Absolutely

I’m just used to living in the city where if things get left out they like to get up and walk away sometimes lol.

Thanks! This was a fun day of fishing, even for a bass guy lol.

What the name of the lake

I think it’s more about protecting walleye and pike during spawn and they decided to lump bass in with that group. Doesn’t make much sense for bass though, the season opens well before they go on beds.

NDYakAngler apparently because they decided for like a “big game” opener :/.

Ty PigPatrol I’m from the future, and both of your channels have blown up

@@liamthomas3666 damnn

This lake has some special regs on panfish, 5 crappies and 10 bluegills. Basically half the normal limit for most MN waters. I had to double check and there is no size limit there although 10” is about as small as I like to keep anyway.

Next weekend! I can’t wait to hook into some river smallies again!

I drive up there for work and saw a couple kayaks around the bridges on hwy 2. Looks like fun if you can get out there on a day when the wind isn’t so crazy.

Yeah that's the issue I run into all to often, I like finding other small lakes like the one in the video, it's always nice to get where the big boats can't, I've got a few small lakes marked on Google maps it's just the worry of if they have fish

I’m hoping to be back on this lake in a couple weeks! The paddle is a Bending Branches angler pro. The cart I got from Cabelas, can’t remember the brand.

Thanks Ryan! I mostly fish the western part of the state but there’s no shortage of water to fish no matter where you are in MN. I’d check out google maps and find some lakes close to you, then look those lakes up on the MN DNRs Lakefinder website. There’s tons of good info on lakes there including maps and DNR test net results so you can see the species, size, and numbers of fish they sampled. That’s how I go about looking for new water to fish. There should be fish biting just about everywhere now though, bass and panfish are getting ready to spawn so they’ll be in shallow water. There’s also a couple groups on Facebook you can check out if you’re on there, “Fishing Minnesota” is where a lot of people post reports and if you have a kayak check out the Minnesota Kayak Fishing Association. A lot of that groups members are from the cities and they meet up and fish often.

There’s a couple river spots that stay open all winter if we get a day warm enough to get the kayak out. I need to try to get some ice fishing videos up this winter too, although all my fishing luck seems to be used up on open water lol.

Champlain is in NY/VT/Quebec

Assuming he means Champlin, MN

Thanks Jonas! There wasn’t any structure other than the dead cattails and reeds from last year. Crappies like to spawn around those. I think that one spot was holding the majority of them because it was closest to deep water and the wind was blowing directly into it. I did some stand up paddling around the shallows yesterday and saw several nice pike and a ton of crappies about a foot deep in some of the thickest reeds out there. Lots of big ones but the weeds were too thick to try to work anything in there with my 4lb line.

I have three of the MGX spinning reels. I keep 10lb mono on all of their main spools but that reel also comes with a spare “shallow” spool that works well for smaller diameter line. I have one spooled up with 4lb mono I was using here and one with 15lb braid.

Thanks! I’m using a hat cam rig I built myself with a GoPro Hero 5 and a Zoom H1/atr-3350 lapel mic for audio.

Most of the spots I fish for smallmouth have catch and release only restrictions.

@@ndyakangler Awesome! Thanks Matt!

I agree, lots of lakes in that area have a 10-11” size minimum and they’re great crappie lakes. 10” is about as small as I’d want to keep anyway. I was actually kicking myself for keeping those smaller ones, I got a few more 11-12”s after I already had my limit on the stringer.

Our pple eat all

Here in NY we are allowed to keep 25 and a minimum of 9 inches.

Wait, he's from Minnesota? I thought he was Canadian.

@@filipinowhiteboy your a hapa that's good most hapa's are very good looking people be proud!!!

@@dbcooper692 hmmmm?

Greater than 10' registration required. $24.00 for 3 years.

It’s never too late to fish crappies, you’d probably just have to look a little deeper now that they’re likely done spawning up shallow. Some lakes do have a ton of small ones and that can stunt the population. Sometimes only a certain area of the lake seems to attract the big ones. I noticed that at this lake when I went back a couple weeks ago. Little ones everywhere but a couple points seemed to hold all the 11-14” fish.

Bass lake

I fried them up with some Cajun shore lunch.

NDYakAngler nice. Can’t really eat the fish here in PGH. I’ve caught a few crappies. Nothing like those footers though usually just like 6-7 inchers. I like the gulp worm on the jig head. I usually catch rock bass with something similar.

I’m not sure of the brand, got it from Cabellas a few years back. I added the runners to it so my kayak would stay in place a little better.

I caught a few small ones. I targeted them on this lake a few summers ago and it was mostly small ones that day too. Maybe a few 3-4lbers mixed in.