Both sides of these bays are loaded with submerged vegetation that create a fairly well-defined weedline where it gets too deep for adequate growth. How long was the largest Northern Pike caught in Minnesota? For more information call the Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce at 1-800-833-1118. The state record for the largest kept northern pike … Leech Lake - Cass County Instead of putting on a leader I grabbed a baitcasting rod and tossed a crankbait. His name and number right after this next lake profile. As an example I’ll tell you how my son caught his biggest pike in Minnesota, a 46 1/2 inch behemoth. They grow big and fight hard in lakes throughout Minnesota, and they are a great tasting fish. The third trip is in October when the big pike have moved into the weedy back bays and are really feeding on the ciscoes that are there. That’s very true on the river. The estimated 70-inch fish was caught in Cedar Lake by a resident of Easterville, a small aboriginal community about 100 kilometers southeast of The Pas. As an example I’ll tell you how my son caught his biggest pike in Minnesota, a 46 1/2 inch behemoth. Not only are there huge muskies in Leech Lake, the northern pike are big as well. Copyright 2020 - KAAL-TV, LLC A Hubbard Broadcasting Company, Any person with disabilities who needs help accessing the FCC Public file should email news@kaaltv.com or call (507) 288-7555, This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. He and his partner were fishing a saddle between a small island and point with jigs and minnows for walleyes. These boards allow anglers to spread out their lines and cover more water instead of running everything out behind the boat where they end up in tangles and have a narrow coverage area. The lakes profiled are all great walleye fisheries so if it’s a meal you want take advantage of that species. “There’s just a lot more anglers on the water today,” said Roach, “and they’re a lot smarter too. It’s a trip with boats and motors into Pipestone Bay where we troll big crankbaits along the shallow breaklines and hook up with some of the big pike cruising the shallows in search of perch and ciscoes. High school senior Charles Hansen caught the 41-inch northern pike while fishing on Lake Harriet. Anglers catch walleye in lots of ways —casting from a canoe in the northern wilderness, trolling live-bait rigs or crank baits on weed lines and rocky reefs, and bouncing jigs along the bottom of a swift-flowing river. Lake Winnibigoshish - Cass/Itasca Counties Even Gary Roach, Minnesota’s Mr. Walleye and a top fishing guide during the 60’s and 70’s says the pike in most of the lakes he used to do well on are getting smaller. We go in on Friday afternoon and come out on Sunday afternoon camping on the ice and fishing all day on Saturday. They should be working about three to five feet above the bottom when on the edge of any vegetation or a few inches above the weeds when trolling right over the top of them. Anglers who catch big pike by accident are just plain lucky. Casters will love the cabbage between Little Stony Point and Bear Island. The beast in the water was a 43 1/2 inch northern pike, big enough to set the state record for longest northern pike caught and released. Big Marine Lake (Washington County): Here’s another metro-area lake with great-sized northern pike in the 10-pound class. She met the monster while trolling plants in about 12 feet of water, the DNR says. Due to a good water clarity of 9.90 feet, you’ll find that much of the northern pike here are sitting in deeper and cooler depths, … There is the Grassy Islands in the west end and Cutover island to the north. The website Lake-Link Minnesota says the largest registered northern pike ever caught in Lake Harriet measured 38.2 inches, meaning Charles may … Lake of the Isles, Minneapolis. One is on purpose and the other is by accident. It’s getting harder these days to find lakes that have good populations of big pike. To the north of Stony Point is Boy Bay and to the south is Headquarters Bay. He and his partner were fishing a saddle between a small island and point with jigs and minnows for walleyes.