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Montana => Ice Fishing Montana => Topic started by: Aaron072 on Jan 02, 2010, 11:26 AM
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perch fishing has been fair. tried it last night for salmon didn't have any luck just small perch. there was 12 guys out there and i only seen to salmon caught fished from about 8:30 to 11:30.
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still trying to find out if any one is catching the kokanee yet the perch fishing is still good
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what do you consider good? are you fishing the perch over at the plum creek side or off the state boat launch? any kokes?
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I took the kids out sunday afternoon caught 60 perch in 3 hours 18 of them between 9 to 10 1/2 inches in front of camp tuffit in 22 fow.
went back out sunday night straight out in front of plum creek campground and caught 9 more 10 inchers and 1 11 incher only got one koke 13 inches. there were two more guys out there one only caught 1 koke the other got 8 47 fow
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oh those are good perch for there. seems like all the perch we catch there are in the 4-6" range. how thick is the ice? at least a few salmon are starting to be caught.
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??? how thick is the ice. where are people accessing, is any one driving on the ice? what is the best time of day to fish for the silvers or the perch? would like to try it.
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ice is ten inches i've been putting in at the statepark and taking snowmobiles out i've only seen one toyota truck out there.
best time for perch is early morning but you can catch them all day
kokes is best at night 8 to 12 in my opinion and most people are driving around the lake to plum creek campground and walking out from there
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went out last night there was about twelve of us fished from dark to 12:00 only 5 salmon caught.
still 9-10 inches of ice but 2 inches of water on top and the augers are just cutting right through the ice with no resistance not good
lots of perch but only one over 9 inches
hope it gets cold.
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any one been out there in the last two days? Curious as to how the ice is holding up
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was there this after noon for a couple hours, enough perch for a meal, ice seemed ok mushy snow on ice, holes from more than a day were solid 3 inches of new ice. still wouldnt take a rig on it .
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any word on the salmon?
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went out last night and my pull rope broke no spare of course or any rope at all
caught a few salmon and lost some in the hole but the guys around me were catching lots of them
maybe i'm just using the wrong set up
going back out tonight just to get my snowmobile and i'll check with the guys to see how there doing
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WE FISHED ASHLEY SAT. AND DID WELL.FISHED MARY FROM 7:30 TI L2 SUN. AND CAUGHT A LOT OF 5-7 INCHERS WITH A COUPLE OVER 9(perch).Caught just 6 salmon but took us awhile to figure them out. We were off the boat launch at the north end.
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talked to some guys this morning that were out last night between 3 of them they caught 37 salmon 14 perch
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swedish pimple and glo hooks? (pink or glo)?
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not sure what everyone else is using i've been using the zimmer set-up but not doing near as good as everyone else but better on perch
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Fished Sunday and pounded perch all day. Most in the 7-8 range, clones. 22 FOW out off Tuffit and same over by white rock.
Winter Fun Fest at LMR on Feb 6th. $10 and a non perishable food item. Biggest 3 perch and 1 Kokanee by weight, you can enter big fish as many times as you like. Poker "run" also, get a card by, playing ice golf, ice bowling, ice "perchshoes" (try and get a frozen perch in a 10" icehole), make donations to a couple different charities, any 5" perch, any 11" perch.
Paying back 80%( other 20% going to charity) of the pot, 40% for biggest 3 perch, 20% for biggest Kokanee, 20% for poker hand.
More details at Snappy Sport Senter of LMR Lodge and resort. You can enter anytime up to the day of the event. Come on out for this one. We will have a warming fire, and a buffet will be available.
If the Perch Assault tournaments are not your cup of tea, maybe this one will rock your world!! ;D
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salmon fishing is really starting to pick up some real nice ones this year
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PerchAssu
We also were off Tuffit on Sunday. There was only one other couple till we left at 1:30 Guess that must have been you? We got a number of larger ones but most were the same size as yours.
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WhitefishMT,
Yup that was me. I was fishing my second waypoint, you guys were right where I wanted to be ;D Your secret is safe with me...I am not one to horn in on anyone, I saw you guys pull what looked like a couple nicer ones out though. I went over into the weedbeds and caught fish out of every hole I drilled, just couldnt find anything bigger than a 9". That spot will continue to profuce better and better fish thru the ice off.
You guys should come and fish the Winter Fun Fest on the 13th, you can sign up the morning of and probably stand a good chance if that spot produces.
Mike
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My boy was saying that he thought that it looked like you were going to park right between us and we had your spot.
We kind of laughed as we have gone out on the ice and sure enough there is some one right where you want to be.
A friend had gotten some bigger ones Friday straight in about 25-30 Yards from where we were.
We watched you go in closer to shore but didn't see anything big come up.
We have fished that almost same exact spot for 10 years.
We also have hit the Snappys derby for as long as I can remember.
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has anyone been out since sunday?
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going to give this ice fishing a try this year finaly after living hear 4 years. ive fished salmon in the summer will they be in the same spots during the ice season.
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went out last night out from plum creek campground in 47 fow and caught about 40 salmon and 10 perch salmon are the biggest i've seen out of there most 11-12 inches with some 13 and i got to 14inchers
using a pink maggot with white corn
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have you been catching the salmon off the bottom or they suspended?
How is the ice?
Thinking of heading that way monday or tuesday and thanks for the info.
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Ice is about 10-13 inches
started out catching them 6 feet off the bottom by 10:30p.m. they were up to 15 feet off the bottom
using sweedish pimple with a pink and white teardrop jig about 8 inches down tipped with a red maggot and white corn soaked in red anise oil
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took my 2 1/2 year old son out started about 6 limited out by 8-8:30
Jig up about 1 foot and let it drop they usually just barely bump it after it hits down
fish were anywhere from 6 to 20 feet up
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went out sat and sun night from about 5 to 8 30 not evan a bite. sat was off tuffit and sun was off of plumb creek camp ground they dont seem interested in what im using i guess. orange swedish pimple glow hook 8 in down with a maggot and corn.
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took the little guy back out tonight and only caught 2 salmon 5 perch from 6 to 10
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Bump to the top, gonna be a fun day Saturday, come on out and enjoy it with us!!!
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Bump to the top, gonna be a fun day Saturday, come on out and enjoy it with us!!!
Just to be sure The Snappy fun day is Feb 13, 2010.
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Yes, but perch assault has a fun tournament going on this saturday check it out at perchassault.com
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So how was the tournement? Weights? How many people came out?
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the tournament had great weather with a pretty good turnout
biggest perch was 1.07 and second was 1.02
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Were the fish active?
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I filled a 5 gallon and a 3 gallon bucket with 7-8 inch perch took me two and a half hours to fillet them last night but it will be worth it when i'm eating them ;D ;D
up till about 10:30 they were coming up 4 feet while my jig was heading down
I got 6 that were between 10 and 11 inches but they were just skinny males
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the 1.02 pounder came 4 feet away from me by my buddy
18 fow
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Ive caught some pike this year but I just can't get into a school of perch. Sounds like a ton of them out there. I wanted to go but everyone else didn't want to be around a bunch of people.
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thinking of going back up tonight talked to some guys last night that hammered the salmon so might have to try again
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you will have to let me know how you did. I heard the bite was off.
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arron thanks for the info on friday, we did good for first timers after salmon, got 1 14in. i wasthe guy on the 4whlr at boat ramp. help from you guys that do alot of fishing on this board is really encourage, hope to see you out there again sometime, again thanks.
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We had almost 150 people come out. Not bad for a first tournament of its type. The poker hand was worth $275 (5 high straight) as was the big Kokanee(.83). $367 was split up for the top 3 perch. We raised about 250 pounds of food for the Westshore Food bank and about 60 pounds of unwanted perch went to a lady who is recovering/healing 5 bald and 2 golden eagles. All in all a successful tournament by all counts.
The Kokanee fishing was the hottest after about 2:30 PM until dark, on the west end of the big hump. But you didn't hear that from me ;)
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took the little guy back out last night but he was having an off night complaining the whole time we were there so we were gone by 9:00 and then he put his hole leg in the hole.
We didn't have any luck partially because of him throwing fits but the guy next to us had quite a few on the ice
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took the little guy back out last night but he was having an off night complaining the whole time we were there so we were gone by 9:00 and then he put his hole leg in the hole.
We didn't have any luck partially because of him throwing fits but the guy next to us had quite a few on the ice
me and some buddies are headed up the weekend of the 20th ive never fished it but im sure the beer will be cold hopefully the fishing wont
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4 of us were out there last nite, caught a few perch before 830 then every thing died off, then about 11 there was a short flurry of salmoon then dry spell till closing time. but what a beautiful night on the ice,mild temps no wind or fog. were hitting only on green.
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not sure what im doing wrong, got skunked on salmon friday nite, used red pimp with white glow with maggots on one rig , glow zimmer with green glow and maggot one the other one. one salomon on for about 4 cranks but lost it. am i using the wrong colors? any help would be appreciated.
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Using the biggest sweedish pimple i can get with glow strip on one side and a pink and glo rat finkie(about a half inch long) 6 inches below that tipped with 2 maggots white or red and one peice of corn(soaked in red anise oil)
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people still consistantly catching salmon?
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fished it yesterday from 3:00am to light only caught 6
about the same from the three guys around me
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Heading out this weekend for some daytime action...Hopefully we can lay into the perch and pick up a salmon here and there. Anyone been out in the last couple days to give an ice report. It's been so warm here in Polson, makes me wonder about ice conditions. I'll post how we do when I get back sunday.
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ice is still 13-15 inches with 3' snow on top
good salmon fishing last night
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Thanks Aaron!! Can't wait to get out there this weekend!!
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Wed night the bight didn't start until 10:30pm then everyone was limited by 11:30 except one guy
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me and some buddies are heading up tonight for the weekend we will be in a big red dodge stop by and have a beer and shoot the bull
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what Are the salmon biting on??? and the perch?? can anyone help
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went for salmon tonight started out real slow caught one a 9:00 and then at 10:00 it turned on got 16 by 12:00
salmon- sweedish pimple with glow strip and a pinkand white tear drop jig six inches down with maggot and corn
perch- perch colored forage minnow with waxie
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Thank you i will have to try that tonight :)
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i went last night caught 6 perch and 4 salmon..... left early...a little cold
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better than me last night salmon 0 :-\
lots of perch
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i was useing a glow in the dark jig weight with a pink glow hook....thinking about going out tommorrow
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does anyone know when the perch are most active??? ???
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I've caught them all day long you've just got to move when they die down in one spot i would try in front of camp tuffit first thing in the morning
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OK thanks i will do that
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Went out during the day on Saturday. Caught a ton of perch 7"-11" on just a small green glow hook with maggot and a perch eye. We did the best just out from camp tuffit in about 17 feet of water, as close to the bottom as possible.
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perchassault
hey mike how did you do saturday? went out about 4 and caught lots of them across the bay from tuffit 2 3/4 pounders
any salmon? i tried it after dark and got skunked
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Moved out east of the island around 1100 in 33 FOW. Caught 4 nice 12-13" kokes but as soon as that happened the perch moved in...Had them from 10 feet under all the way to the bottom and stayed like that until 2:00 PM! The Vex was a red blob all day long, but the biggest fish was 10". I was gonna move out to where you ended up, but couldnt motivate to pack up and move...
If I dont go to Spokane Sat, me and Cindy will probably go to LMR Fri night and rent a cabin for the last couple days of Salmon season. Got to get at least one night of salmon fishing in! But I BEST be going to Spokane to pick up the baot, and a test run on Couer d" alene lake before hauling it back here.
They have that pond hockey tournament Saturday at the lodge, might be worth watching!
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going up tonight.... hopeing for some more salmon.
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This has been asked before I am sure but in the last few days what time has the bite been starting in the afternoon/evening and how late has it been going? Also has it been perch or salmon? Or both? AND is Tuffet still the area to fish? Anything been going off of the public ramp? and last but not least... What has been working to catch salmon and or perch. I have not fished down at LMR this winter so any help would be appreciated.
Going to go out tomorrow afternoon and try my luck...
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Also... How is the ice? Any snow on the ice? Is it still Ok for the ATV's?
Thanks
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I went out to LMR yesterday off the state park. I moved around a lot but never could catch a perch. The only place I was getting bites was off the weed point to the right. There are a bunch of holes out in about 15 feet of water(100 yrds from the weeds). I only had a few maggots and those little perch stole each of them one by one. After i ran out of magots I didn't get a bite. I was there from 12-4:30. The ice is awsome not slushy at all and thick. I would try another spot than the state camp gound. I talked to another guy who said he hadn't caught any either. Just little bites. With the sun out it was a perfect day to get sk&$#d.
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you need to be in front of campt tuffit and get in 18 22 fow and after you catch one switch to eyeballs jig it aggressively and then stop and just barely shake it green seems to be the color ;D
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just got back..caught a ton of perch..using a swedish pimple with maggots and an eye ball
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Got out to LMR yesterday (Tuesday) about 1:00 PM. Good ice (16 inches), the water that was on top of the ice has froze and the lake is rutted in places. Fished right off of tuffit in 18 fow, did not graph any salmon but the bottom was alive on the Vex, soooo. I went to the bottom with a glow swedish pimple and the color of the jig did not mater. Green/Pink/Yellow/White... All caught perch.
Moved to just off the state ramp in 32 fow and about 5 PM the salmon marking on the Vex started but would not bite. The bottom came alive once again about 5:30 pm on the Vex and the bite started again, bigger perch... Two were 11 inches, a couple more at 10 and on down to 7 inches. Had not planed on staying after dark and did not bring any lights so I had to leave when I could not see my rod tip. The perch were hitting on a dead stick so I had to be able to see. A good afternoon.
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what do you mean the lake is rutted in places??
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soft snow got rutted up like mud and then froze it is a rough slow ride across the lake now
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Ok... OK... ;) So it is slow going <grin> But I was not in a hurry! It was still a good afternoon. I only get out once a week so it was good for me and I even caught a few fish. :)
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mt hank, were you there mostly for perch or tring for salmon?
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oh ok thats what i thought ..thanks
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tooffless...
No I went for salmon but was not seeing anything suspended on the Vex, and I saw things (perch) on the bottom and figured what to heck. I would really like to get some salmon but thats not going to happen at LMR this winter. I only get out on Tue. or Wed. Work gets in the way of the fun things. BTW the big perch were just under 10" not 11 as I reported, I think the fisherman thing kicked in and you know that "this is 6 inch" thing that us men have. ;D
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Does any one no where the best spot for salmon is?
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everyone has been fishing out from the plum creek campground and night and early morning
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thanks so a swedish pimmple and a glow hook????
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I've been using one rod with sweedish pimple and glo hook and one rod with zimmers salmon set up but i take the upper hook off and just use the lower one
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white corn soaked in red anise oil ;D ;D
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sorry about being off topic but after salmon close on sunday, theres still a lot of places for them ie. ashley,bittroot,echo,thompson. but ive heard that the march fishing for perch at lmr is preety fantastic.
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March fishing for perch at LMR always leaves us wondering...Where are these fish the REST of the year....?
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won't tell ;D ;D ;D
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want to get to lmr one more time, what time has been the best in the last few days?
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went out saturday nite and it was real slow at first and then caught 3 perch and 1 salmon not so good went till 12 from 700
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has any body been up lately??? any luck
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get ready were coming shaffer going to get your title
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not if i get it first ;D
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I fished LMR yesterday afternoon (1:00 ~ 6:30). Still very good ice up to 18 inches and rutted but everything on top is froze, one guy was driving a truck out on the lake :o. Overcast with the sun trying to show at times and "NO WIND".
I caught a few "FAT" perch 7 to 9 inches but it was a tough bite. I tried anywhere from 15 to 35 fow, 35 seemed to be the choice. They were showing on the Vex right on the bottom and at times 2 feet solid off the bottom but I could not get them to bite on maggots (pink or white) I switched jigs and pimples numerous times and I had some mousies with me I had bought a couple of months ago and never used. That is what I finally started catching them on and only one pimple/jig combination, I could not get any othere combination to work and only had enough for one setup. After catching a couple on mousies the bite quit so I switched to perch eye's, caught a couple then it quit again so I switch back to mousies and caught a couple more, so then back to eye's, and, and, and.
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Is the fishing still really good at night time at LMR....Just wondering i have no time to go during the day anymore
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salmon season is closed.
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I Was Talking About the PERCH
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I don't know anyone that purposely targets perch at night there
I did try dog lake sunday night hoping for a few pike and fished for perch and only got 1
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So is LMR Closed for salmon or is the whole lake closed
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The only fish you can legally target is perch. The lake is open, but the season is closed for everything except yellow perch.
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Just Wondering if anyone has fished for any perch latley and how the ice is