shortstik

Fairly new to the site but will try to post reports as I go. Was out on the a couple smaller area lakes this week. Found most of the gills and crappies in 10FOW anywhere from the bottom up to 5' off. Did well with simply a waxie and teardrop, color didn't seem to matter although green w/ a red dot or gold seemed to produce well. Did the best right before the front moved in which brought us all the snow on Tuesday. The lakes I fished averaged about 14" of ice. Walleye fishing was pretty good about two weeks ago but haven't been targeting them since. Picked up a few respectible fish on Hemlock when they actually bit, most were tripping flags and and scaling the minnows. Did okay on Red Cedar as far as numbers go but size was pretty small, I don't think we had one fish meet the slot. Good luck to all and Happy New Year!

I have had luck with the Frabill spring which attaches to the rodtip eye. I had a spring setup purchased from a bait shop the guy made himself. It was heavy gauge wire insulation. The spring was in one part and the other half went around the rod. The spring was secured with adhesive to the insulation.

Sad to hear that. I live close to that particular area and the same problem exists in the county land by my place. Once the early shoot is over the pumpkin patch comes on Saturday and takes care of anything left. I don't mean to sound sarcastic but the small parcel of county land gets hammered with lots of hunters. I was fortunate enough to harvest a adult doe early on and a nice 7pt. last night. Good luck to all this weekend.