Winter 2010 Icefishing Reports and Ramblings

[augustwest]

My Laptop died about 2-3 weeks ago and I am using Vanessa's when available, so my response time may be a day or so out of sync!!! Best bet is to call and hopefully Vanessa isn't flapping her gums with her Mother 23.75 times a day

I am calling in a few Chris!!!

Take care and be a Hero...save a Hatian!!! (no ill intentions)

AW

[fishman31]

So who has caught bullhead t night? Well last night I did while fishing some Crappies . Late night but what a blast almost 40 Crapps & 8 Bullheads. Timmy it was one of those night I told ya about.

[kirkville1]

well we fished lewis this AM 1- 14" eye and Jake caught 1 -20 1/2" and lost another 1/2 way up. Im headin back out this evening to give her another try

[Fullmoon]

Hit EB tonight. Missed one and that was it. Found a nice drop off not too far from the main parking area. May try it tomorrow in the AM. Hard to find fish lately. Plenty of ice there and cold. Keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get the 36 hrs or so of warm they call for.

[kirkville1]

Change of plans were goin to try Deruyter this morning

[iceman1603]

bring your waders Chris. If your out there after it gets warm there will be plenty of slush to walk thru comein back to shore..

[kirkville1]

Well we went to Deruyter but was unsure where to park on the south end, the wind was CRANKIN at the north end so we went to se side of eatonbrook. bunch of bass and dink perch was all that was caught. Ray and his buddy were headin out as we were comin in hope they have better luck

[iceman1603]

Chris, for future reference, You can park at the General store on the south end. I have also parked on East lake rd. Not to far from the stop sign on the north end as your headin south youll see a big concrete boat ramp on the right. Ive parked there and used the ramp for access in the past with no problems.

Fished Tusc today. Tried the usual spots mid way down the south end. Not even a mark. Wind was rippin across about 20mph solid. Moved around the corner from the willow to get a break from the wind for a couple hrs. Didnt mark a singal fish all mornin. ..

[Fullmoon]

It wasn't much different for us but at least we got out again. Cooked venison on the ice and it was great. Chris, did you or your son loose a pair of Klein needle nose pliers? Got 'em if you did and will return them. Did a lot of walking today, sore but still enjoyed it.

[Fishingking]

Again I have not updated my trips in about 10 days so here it goes.

1/15/10 Two of us went for the evening walleye run 3pm-7pm produced this guy @ 23" and one 12" perch

1/16/10 Fished a body of water I have never icefished before 10:30am-3:30pm 2 of us ended up catching a mess of perch to 9" pumpkinseeds to 8" bullheads to 10" and golden shiners one was nearly 11".

1/17/10 fished bluegills 1:30pm-4:45pm kept 10 to 9 3/4" and about 20 throwbacks and one 12" perch.

Heres the 9 3/4"

1/18/10 Seven of us went north for perch as we are getting crowded off our home lake 11am-3:30pm. Ended up with about 40 keepers including 3 around 13" around 100 throwbacks and 3 smallies 2-3 1/2lb range. Heres two of the biggest perch.

The wife was very excited to catch this smallie as it was her biggest fish so far this ice season.

1/19/10 Two of us fished the pond 1pm-4:30pm 13 keepers to 11" and about 150 dinks 2 rockies and a 7" gill.

1/20/10 Three of us caught the mixed bag 9:30am-12:30pm 7 perch to 13" 4 picks to 20", a rockie at 10 3/4" 3 Largies and this dandy @ 23".

1/21/10 Went for bluegills again 7:30am-10:30am 15 keepers to 9" 10 throwbacks and one 11" perch.

1/22/10 went for gills 4pm-5:15pm was it slow 10-12 5"-8" gills.

1/23/10 4:15pm-5:15pm Went for gills again still slow kept 5 8-8 1/2" about 7 throwbacks.

Today 1/24/10 12:00pm-5:00pm Went back to the pond in front of the LC. Found fish right away in 10 fow lots of dinks and a few keepers mixed in. First fish was a solid 12" perch thought it was going to be good. Bounced around in the deeper water thinking we would find something better but ended up back in 10 fow for the evening. Did 17 decent keepers to 12" threw back many in the 8 1/2"-91/2" range. Must of caught at least 75 dinks today.

[Thunderman]

Nice pics King .Took a ride today to see how high the streams and creeks were the streams are creeks and the creeks are rivers . Be carefull where ever you go this water we are getting will lift things up .

[Pman]

Kings been doing some serious fishing!!!! Great fish and nice pics. You handle that camera almost as good as a fishing rod.

[Pman]

Todd - the only thing the water will not lift up is our spirits. I welcomed the warmth and rain to knock stuff down and improve conditions but this is a bit much. Hard to say what damage it may have done to the ice, maybe not much, but might loose the shoreline in some places and obviously open cracks, etc. The other problem is just how murky things will get with all the run off.

[Thunderman]

I want murky water and some uniform ice .

[Fishingking]

1/25/10 Made it out to the pond 11am-5pm, was the only one out there It was nice to have my lake back for at least one day. Bounced around a bunch fished 4 fow-40 fow and caught fish (many dinks) in just about every hole. Only ended up keeping 5 perch 11-12" and 5 rockies 1@9" 1@10" 1@10 1/2" and 2 @ 11" . Must have caught at least 150 perch today.

[Fishingking]

1/26/10 Fished the pond off the LC 10am-1pm. Three of us with 15 tipups did 3 pickeral 2@20" 1@24" a 14" largemouth and 17 keeper perch to 12.5". Also jigged for about 30 mins 9:30am-10:00am before my fiends showed up and must of caught nearly 50 dink perch and 2 keepers it was seriously one after another non stop.

[Thunderman]

Nice fish king it seems you had a pretty good day at least you caught fish .How's the shore line looking?

[Dark Cloud]

Nice fish FishK

A little late but I did fish a few hours on sat. Picked a dozen crappies and this bass that went a tad over 19. He liked the DarkWest spoon also...

[iceman1603]

Awsome fish and pics king and Jay

[CNY Tim]

Waiting for reports to decide where to go tomorrow, thinking of "Showing them my Pannies" Lee.

[Kappydick]

"Showing them your panties" Dam must be a new secret weapon

[CNY Tim]

Maki Plastics logo printed on the back of his shirts

[tank]

My friend and I got back from Durago with 2 limits of perch.We each caught well over 100 dinks. Wind was brutal with a whiteout to boot this afternoon. 8 in of ice with a couple of in of wind blown snow on top. I did not use the cando lure today nor did I use any type of castmaster. Nice seeing you guys today.

[augustwest]

Way to go Tank and Boys...notice I said "boys", because anyone that fishes next to Tank...is a Boy

I found some Jumbos today as well Local Madison County body of water. With all the rain, I decided to head a little shallower near some fresh incoming water and found some serious Jumbos in 15' of water. My normal 25' GPS spot didn't show any signs of action, so I made a deduction and it payed it's dividends

This spot should only be HOT for another day or two before the Perch disperse back into their normal mid-winter shuffle. I am back to work tomorrow, but will be back to "said" spot Sunday morning for a Jumbo Jam

Anyone in? Just kidding...no one will find me Except Tank...he knows how to fish with real men!!!

Take care and be safe!!!

AW

[Thunderman]

My friend and I got back from Durago with 2 limits of perch.We each caught well over 100 dinks. Wind was brutal with a whiteout to boot this afternoon. 8 in of ice with a couple of in of wind blown snow on top. I did not use the cando lure today nor did I use any type of castmaster. Nice seeing you guys today.

It was nice seeing you too Tank I am glad you guys made it home safely and ended up with your limits The drive home was brutal the only snowplows I seen going home were going the opposite direction the west bound lane of rt#20 was not plowed thank god for 4wd .