Plum Lake

Statehouse Point looking south to Froelich’s Resort. I started going through my ice gear a couple days ago. Season’s over now. Looks like we won’t have to worry whether ice is out for the open water opener this year!!! 

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The first annual lake-link unofficial outing is in the books.

Attendees were me, my son, fishhook, suspended musky, DK Dominators, Polski, Zmanizc, Fishloveme, Bassmasterandrecord tracks, FV and screaming Drags,  phishing phool, Essox JJ, Snake1, clueless, npike, and pike junior.  Also worth noting is that the outing was in memory of a prolific Lake-Linker now passed Nishif.  Nif's  favorite team was the Brewers. So everyone who attended the event signed a Brewers T-shirt. We put the Brewers T-shirt on a chair and gave Bob a tip up!

We'll have the second annual outing next year for any northern folks that would like to join us, and I will post details on this thread.

Ice was still in good shape as of Saturday. We were there Tuesday through this morning.  we did use a four wheeler Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Fishing was enough to keep a guy interest, but nothing over-the-top. Saturday we caught nine Pike, one Walleye, and one Perch. 

We also ate like kings, each night it was one person's job to put on a meal.  we had salmon, pork fillets wrapped in bacon, spaghetti, and New York strips to name a few!

Rick,

Headed up with a dozen or so Lake-link brethren for an extended ice fishing outing - would like you to join us!

Sent you a message as well! 

It’s been one heck of a weird winter. Fishing has been OK. Nothing to get excited about, though. 10-11” of ice this weekend and a skating rink. Yaktracks, or similar are a must. Have caught more largemouth bass in my typical walleye spots than I care to. 12-14’ of water along weed edge. Normally see walleyes at dusk in these areas, but instead bass and the normal northern activity. One thing I’ve enjoyed is the peaceful quiet, as there are no snowmobiles running the Plum Lake to Star Lake super highway. Really feel for the local businesses. Don’t begrudge people to ride sleds. Just a comment.

9” ice depth, but there are small areas with more. People starting to bring atv’s, snowmobiles out. I’m driving my Polaris Ranger, but going ahead on foot to drill new areas. Fishing has been slow, with just a few tipups in my normal spots. A few nice sunfish, though.

Anyone know how much ice there is?  Probably not enough for a utv I'm guessing 

Back from fishing Plum Lake all week.  A little here, a little there but mostly spending family time on vacation up in the northwoods.  Finally caught a walleye on this lake.  Also missed a nice smallie when it did its head shake.  Other than that caught tons of bluegills, a few perch, one northern, a few largemouth, and some pumpkinseeds.  My daughter and I had a friendly competition last night to see who could catch the most fish in a little over an hour. She beat me, 34 fish to 32.  Attached is a 9 inch gill we released after a photo.  Good size for this lake, I think.  Also got into some crappie chasing schools of minnows out there.  Attached is a pic of one.  

Had a great time up there this year and I'm figuring out the lake, little by little.  Can't wait for next year!

I'm up here for the week fishing and doing family things. Ive found cribs in the lake in numerous spots but most of them look pretty old. I've found rock bass on one set of them and the others not many fish. Found some crappie the other day but the bite shut down by 7:30 am. Lost something big on a leech yesterday. Changed the hook size for the evening and caught a 16.75 inch walleye. Didn't have my phone with me so no picture. Dough! Also caught a nice gill (8 inch male) on a leech and a few smaller gills on a jig and half a crawler. It's fun exploring this lake! Couple of boats out last night so I went to other spots. On a lake this size there's no reason to fish near someone!

Temperature dropped about 20° yesterday and the night before. I think that caused the fish to turn off. Went out yesterday with the wife for a couple of hours didn't catch anything. Hoping to get out Friday with two consistent days of temps 65 to 70 hoping to do better. Finding this Lake to be challenging.