Crane Lake
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Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Vertical Jigging 20'+
Structure
Humps
Forage
Minnows
Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)
Structure
Rock Pile
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
68°
This was a multi species trip so we caught a fair amount of walleye, crappie, pike, and smallmouth bass. I enjoy keying into the smallmouth. Outside of live bait rigs, the keitech swimbait on a 1/4oz jig head did very well for smallmouth. Relatively slow retrieve with a series of twitches and pops off the rod. Beautiful area to get away and fish!
Species
WalleyeSeason
Summer
Technique
Vertical Jigging 0-9'
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Water Temperature
75°
Fish weren't biting on the midwater reefs or sand so I decided to go shallow. Found walleye in weed beds, particularly right on the edges of cabbage beds. They seemed to like the crawlers threaded onto a 1/4 oz tungsten jig and would pick it up off bottom after pulling free from the vegetation. Had to sift through bait robbing little perch though which was a pain and cost a lot of crawlers and jigs because I found myself waiting too long to set the hook because I didn't know if it was one of those little robbers or a legitimate fish. If it was legitimate and I waited too long, the walleye or pike swallowed it and I broke the line off or gut hooked the fish.
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