Lower Cranberry
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| Species: | Largemouth, Pike |
| Description: | Lower Cranberry has become more of a swamp than a lake over the years. Slowly the bottom has filled in with sediment and vegetative matter from the lily pads. Plus, the rotting lake bottom fills with gas during the sunny summery months and it pushes up. Water enters the lake from Upper Cranberry to the southwest and exits Lower Cranberry at the far Easter end over a dramatic log dam. The east end is the only part of the lake that holds fish. Most of the lake is too shallow and too warm. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the fish we find in Lower Cranberry come here from Upper Cranberry during the high water rush during the winter melt-off. |
| Strategy: | When we are motoring through the east end on the way to the portage, one or more people will chuck spinner baits, weedless spoons, weedless frogs or other large surface baits. This lake is rarely fished. Most people keep their gear packed for their final destinations and ignore this lake. |
| Things to Consider: |
Consider fishing this early AM or late in the evening when the sun is low. Use weedless lures so you can cover lots of water looking for active fish. |
| Contributors: | Scott Borchelt |
