{"id":732,"date":"2012-02-02T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksbait.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-07-25T16:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:33:19","slug":"fishing-is-good-on-long-and-grand-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"FISHING IS GOOD ON LONG AND GRAND LAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"

*******Feb. 8, 2012 update*****<\/p>\n

We’ve had good cold weather lately and more coming . Enough cold air that the lakes appear to be in good shape for ice fishing, and making \u00a0more ice, according to some of our fishermen. 13 to 16 \u00a0inches of ice in some areas. And some good catches of perch and walleye in some areas. And this is a fact, so take it as you like, there have been pick up trucks, cars, campers, quads, and snow machines on both lakes lately. CAUTION ! THE ICE MAY NOT BE 13 TO 16 INCHES ALL OVER. I’m just giving you a better\u00a0picture\u00a0of what we have folks.<\/p>\n

Tournaments. The Reel Fun\u00a0tournament, and the Grand lake\u00a0Sportsman’s\u00a0tournament \u00a0on Feb 18, will \u00a0happen for sure. That’s my latest news and it’s \u00a0only about a week away now. Also the DPI \u00a0employee\u00a0tournament\u00a0will be March 3 .<\/p>\n

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The fishing on both Long and Grand lakes has been good . Very nice Perch. Walleye and Pike have been caught on both lakes. The ice conditions, while\u00a0worrisome to a lot of folks, has not deterred most from going out, being careful and staying away from unsafe ice. \u00a0This year has been quite \u00a0different with weather patterns, as you are aware of, with too many warm days and not all that cold at night, but cold enough to\u00a0maintain\u00a0some good ice in some areas.\u00a0 There is\u00a0little\u00a0\u00a0snow to be found, but it does snow off and on at times.<\/p>\n

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Both lakes appear to have good ice [ 7 to 12 inches ] on the North ends. On Long lake there is bad ice \u00a0and open water at times around Brooks Highway and also\u00a0known\u00a0as \u00a0Little Gravely on the maps. Caution is the key word still for everyone, especially if you have not been here this year.<\/p>\n

I would like to mention the discovery of a huge bluegill school on Long Lake this week. Lorie was fishing at Silver Weeds and when she dropped her Aqua View into the water she saw hundreds of \u00a0Gills. These \u00a0fish have been caught here every summer for several years, but this is the first time we have seen these beautiful fish in \u00a0such huge numbers in the winter. She said she measured the ice and there was at least 7 inches of \u00a0good ice. These Gills will bite on Wax \u00a0Worms, Spikes, and Wigglers, or\u00a0Berkley\u00a0Yum baits, and of course on the now famous, Lorie Rig Fly Rigs, sold right here.<\/p>\n

There are two ice fishing contests that we know about. February 18, both contests, if ice allows. The Grand Lake annual\u00a0sportsman’s\u00a0derby, and the 1,000 hole tournament. We have tickets for the 1,000 hole tournament, [$25.00]and the annual Grand lake \u00a0derby is free. The 1,000 hole tournament is 12 to 3, and this year \u00a0they have a Chevy, \u00a0a Quad, 42 ” TV and a $500 cash prize thrown in.<\/p>\n

Please be careful if you do go out, and have fun.<\/p>\n

We are open 7 to 5, seven days a week.<\/p>\n

Happy Ground Hog Day, Valentine’s day, and \u00a0FREE FISHING WEEK END, Feb 18, and 19, 2012.<\/p>\n

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*******Feb. 8, 2012 update***** We’ve had good cold weather lately and more coming . Enough cold air that the lakes appear to be in good shape for ice fishing, and making \u00a0more ice, according to some of our fishermen. 13 to 16 \u00a0inches of ice in some areas. And some good catches of perch and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bucksbait.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}