Tullibee season is here, and action will only be picking up over the next few weeks. Saturday, I had a
group that were members of Women Anglers of Minnesota. They wanted to catch their Master Angler
caliber tullibee. With the amount of snow lately it had made travel difficult, but we were able to get out
and set up in time to capture an amazing sunrise. It did not take long for the first tullibee to be caught and it met the Master Angler requirements. The Livescope was showing a fair number of fish in our area but there were big pike or walleyes chasing the tullibees around big schools of fish, but our bites were coming on solo fish.
When we tullibee I use two lines with similar setups, but one has a large spoon and the other has a small
spoon. The largest one of the days came off a large spoon but the rest came off the smaller spoon
setup. We had a lot of fish on the graph throughout the day, but our bites came off solo fish which I
thought was unique. Most of our fish were only a few feet down but we had them come through from
bottom to a few feet below the ice so keep an eye on those random high flickers on the graphs.
I have heard reports on other lakes of people sight fishing tullibees in 60 plus feet of water but only
catching them a few inches below the ice making it very fun experience. We are very blessed in our area
to have some of the best tullibee lakes in the state and they make for a very fun experience especially
with a large group of people. For those that haven’t had them they are some of the best fish to get
smoked and for those that don’t have a smoker a bunch of our local butcher shops will smoke them for
a very small fee.
Tullibee season is a sign that our ice fishing season is about to end shortly. There are a few remaining
dates available in March to get out fishing before we are done guiding for the ice season.
Cody Hill
www.chillguideservice.com
218-443-3813