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| Anyone ever fished Cross Lake in Pine City?
Might head there this weekend. |
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| I drive by but have never fished it. The public access was jammed full in July last time I drove by it.
Let us know what you found. |
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Location: Duluth | Brian Hoffies - 10/4/2025 5:27 PM
I drive by but have never fished it. The public access was jammed full in July last time I drove by it.
Let us know what you found.
Heck, I drove by it twice this weekend. Have always wondered how it fished. |
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| I fished it for a few hours a about 3-4 years ago when we rented a cabin on the lake. There are a few interesting looking spots at the mouth of the rivers, the big lake buoy and a few underwater points. I didn't see anything but also didn't fish it that hard. The water was pretty stained and weed growth was in real shallow water. Supposedly there are a few big ones in there though. The lake it connected to (Pokegama) had probably the worst water quality I'd ever seen. The news had a story about fish die off in that later with a year. |
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| I usually don't give specifics about lakes but this one was good 10 years or so ago,, in fact I was protective and evasive about it. nice fish that got chunky, but second generation drop off and I'm hearing alot of the fish eventually go over the dam make it now few and far between. Fish that you do happen to catch are usually above average.Alot of those nuisance stringy thick weed types that are common in flowage type water. Bucktails with bright reflective tape-kramer brothers worked good.
Edited by happy hooker 10/10/2025 4:10 AM
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Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | One thing I have found with Minnesota strain fish is that if there is good current leaving a body of water, a lot of the fish are going to swim downstream. I grew up in south Mn and we had lake zumbro which is a true reservoir that was stocked with musky. Every musky that was stocked into that lake went over the dam and spent their life in the river downstream. I would expect that cross would be similar since it has easy access out of the lake. Looking at the fishery surveys though it looks like the musky that are in there get really thick |
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