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Title: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Teacherpreacher on Sep 07, 2020, 09:33 AM

Returned home last night from 9 day trip to Leech Lake, MN. Had a good trip! LOTS of wind!!!! Couldn't get on lake Tues or Thursday. Caught limit of dandy bluegills Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Beautiful fish. Also picked up some real nice crappies a couple of days.
Teach        (Trying to remember how to post photos off of phone???Help!!!)

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Spooled85 on Sep 07, 2020, 09:04 PM

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Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Teacherpreacher on Sep 08, 2020, 03:16 PM

Gills and crappie from Leech Lake last week. Thanks Spooled. Got It! Couldn't find the big perch. Caught 150 each of 6"-9" in about an hour. Water temp was 67 degrees. Probably in a week or two big ones will move in?
Teach
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Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: filetandrelease on Sep 08, 2020, 03:21 PM

 Some good meals right there

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Hexagenia51 on Sep 08, 2020, 07:59 PM

Glad you had a good trip Teach! Nice looking fish! Didn't get any walleye or didn't target them? Again way go and get em! Hex

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Spooled85 on Sep 08, 2020, 08:05 PM

Congrats ! Nice haul there and those are some dandy gills . And you are welcome with the help

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: bigr on Sep 09, 2020, 06:27 AM

Heading up to Portage lakes near backus next week. Cant wait. It's always nice to get away. Limits a not what they once were but who needs to keep that many fish anyway. Most of us can get what we want around here. We hope to catch some nice gils like you did. Always have in the past. The gil lake we fish has a 5 fish daily limit. Not that the fish we keep are great eating size but since we can only keep 15 for the entire week we rarely keep any under a lb. How did you do on the walleye? It's sad but we rarely catch a walleye. Lakes we fish don't have high populations so it's not worth the time or effort working for a few fish. Thanks for sharing. 

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: Teacherpreacher on Sep 09, 2020, 09:08 AM

We only fished walleyes one morning. I got one trolling a Hotntot. Two  neighbors were on them everyday trolling Shad Raps in 7- 15 feet of water. They got like 4, 9, 3 4, 2 a day depending on wind. The day we fished them we marked tons of fish, just weren't hungry.
Water temp was still 67 degrees so next few weeks things should improve .bigr, knew folks that went to Backus years ago and remember they caught huge gills. Over the years I'm sure they depleted numbers on the big ones. Good MN is trying to keep the big ones around. Have a great trip!
Teach

Title: Re: Leech Lake Trip
Post by: tater140 on Sep 09, 2020, 02:32 PM

Those are legit gills if you can lip em.  Congrats on a nice trip