A Lot of Crappies Being Caught on Lake Minnetonka
January 20, 2026

January 20, 2026

A great crappie bite!

The weather at the beginning of last week was great for getting out on the ice. If you wanted to hole hop it was not a problem with warm temps and not much wind. But then Sunday afternoon the wind came in after some light snow and the temps dropped like a rock. Now today we are in the teens and with light wind it feels nice out again.
The ice has been growing we now have 17 inches of ice with some snow and some bare ice.
The Bite was good last week for both crappies and sunfish. I had some repeat clients that came up for their 6th year in a row and pounded them. They had over 500 fish in 3 days and 1 guy had 107 on one of the days. A new record for them. They shared a piece of the fresh fish they made, and it doesn't get much better than that.
Its sounds like gold has been the color of choice to get them crappies to commit and a nice small minnow. The sunfish are still hitting the smaller jigs and wax worms. Clients are seeing pike on the camera but haven't been able to hook into them. Or when they did, they got broke off.

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