crawling valley

[Hueston]

Has anyone been driving on how's the fishing

[Bigmountainrider]

Ice is 15-16 inches as of Sunday, iced 7 fish before noon and then it dropped off. Your call as for the driving on.

BMR

[Hueston]

Thanks for the imfo

[Iwantsfish]

I'll try to make it out this Sunday for the first time ever to CVR and bringing my brother along who's never been ice fishing.

Any tips for CVR? I'll have a three man pop up, planning to bring some 2-3 inch smelts and jigs and will be happy to pull anything through the ice to get my brother hooked.

I'll set up some quick strike rigs for tip-ups with a dead stick too, hope to see some action!

[Steve51]

I have been going there a lot over the past three years and i have had the best luck with a pickeral rig and 3-6 inch smelts. a few jigging with a rapala rattler (gold)

[hookset]

More often seem to be biting the "jig rod" out there than the tip ups. Have had some days caught over 20 fish in the group not 1 bite on the still bait tip ups. Any type of jig set up with some smelt should work.

Good luck!

[pinelakeperch]

Anyone care to disclose the best areas to fish (feel free to PM). My summer spot at Crawling seems to be useless in the winter. I practice catch and release.

[Iwantsfish]

Great, thanks for the tips everyone! Should be a fun morning.

[briverb]

Does anyone know if there are any natural springs on Crawling Valley anywhere? I remember someone mentioning it years ago.

I have fished CV for 15 years and have never known of any myself.

Thanks for any feedback on this one.

[TROLLER]

Supposed to be one on the NW side by the islands which btw ,jhutter is a good place to start your hunt for the CV pike.

Heard a F&W went part way through a few years back but don't put much credence into that one.

[WayneChristie]

Supposed to be one on the NW side by the islands which btw ,jhutter is a good place to start your hunt for the CV pike.

Heard a F&W went part way through a few years back but don't put much credence into that one.

it did, lots of posts of the pictures on here :)
http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/attachment.php?attachmentid=44785&d=1325383627
the snowman must have been driving, hard to see where you are going with coal eyes!

[briverb]

That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

So there is a spring on the NW side, then. Hmmmmm, interesting.

I plan to be ice fishing CV this weekend. I usually wait for there to be 24 inches before driving my 1/2 on the ice, though.

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it.

[Fishike]

Thanks for the safety tip about the NW spring...good to know!

[niwrek]

Does anyone know if you can get down red/orange rock road? Or is it snowed in?

[kevinhits]

Drove into the NW islands last winter but of course the ice then was alot thicker

[calgarygringo]

Been fishing over there for many years and no driving issues. As always check the path you are going to take first. The spring the f&w hit was close to shore. Was a strange one.

[tracker]

Tons of trucks on there today (Jan 10). Had one bite and landed none. Saw lots of people moving fishing holes. Not sure if anyone had better luck than me.

[niwrek]

It was a pretty slow day.....started off gang busters,,,,, but then kaput it stopped

[natedawg]

Fish had commitment issues today. Thankful for the marcum as it sure made a slow day lots of fun for the kids. Lots of action right before dark but didn't manage to ice any. There's always next weekend.....

[martind25]

We fished the West side today. Just off the edge of a bay, a couple of K down the lake. I plunked myself "right above" a weed bed. Drilled three holes. Landed 15, lost half a dozen at the ice. I highly recommend a camera if you dont fish with one. You can see the bite, and entice the fish to bite also. Way cool. All Pike, no walleye seen. The wife had a blast! Cheers!

[Hueston]

Lot's of ice no problems driving, was out sat. Landed 6 pike 2 walleye

[Iwantsfish]

Was out on Sunday as planned and only iced one small pike, 22 inches. Was using a white and green jig head with smelt in 11 feet along with everyone else. Had a few lookers throughout the day but none liked what I was offering. The one I did get was on a dead stick on a tip up.

[Iwantsfish]

Just curious for those that landed a good number, care to share your setup? I saw up to 8 lookers on the flasher and they stuck around for a while just wouldn't commit.

[Hueston]

Silver jig head white body no tale with minnow jigging very agresefly