It's been a busy start to the winter but
this weekend I finally made it on the ice. Fishing wasn't fast
but it was steady all weekend. I started not far from my house
on one of the local reefs. I fished in 27 feet on Saturday, I
went back to the same area on Sunday and tried 20 and 24 feet.
The best I found was at 24 feet. I caught fish on both live chub
minnows and frozen shiners.
On Saturday, I only fished for an hour
and a half and kept 2. I would have fish longer, but I got
hungry when I realized I hadn't eaten any dinner and the fish in
the bucket looked too good so I went home and ate them for lunch
On Sunday I went back to the same spot
and started in 20 feet. This proved to be too shallow I graphed
a lot of fish but didn't catch any. I moved a little deeper and
within 45 minutes I had three walleyes and one sauger. I fished
for a while longer and managed to get my limit of walleyes,
including one I released that was 18 inches. I also got one
small sauger. In all kept 4 walleyes 1 sauger and released 3.
The ice off long point is very smooth, the smoothest we've seen
it in years, I measured the ice and it was exactly 18 inches
thick.
Scarface
