Should have stayed home, lol.

[CaptSpike]

Well I had intended to head north for lake trout. The predicted weather and road conditions kept us local. This morning NHFishah woke to 1/4" ice on the road around him so we canceled our plan B. I headed out around 8 to a local lake. I fished an area I was working last fall. I should have stayed home, lol. I had a ton of lookers but no takers. I fished 37' to 6' of water and could only manage 1 small perch. I headed home around 11:30 when it started to rain harder. I did however get turned around in the fog and was walking off the lake in the wrong direction. When it didn't look right I fired up the GPS and got my bearings straight, lol.

Not sure what I'll do tomorrow. I hope to make the whole Pats game tonight, so getting up early could be tough. I only have till noon tomorrow (puppy duty), and I need to install a new wall oven in the afternoon as well.

Hope to get up for lakers next weekend. If I wasn't so busy at work I'd consider taking a day off.

Glad I have a job as many don't.

Hope you did better than me if you got out.

Spike

[Dylan8351]

Better luck next time!

[CaptSpike]

Your well wishes worked!

Well today it wasn't really option C it was option A. I was actually going to bag it after the day before. I ended up getting up early and said you only have so many days so I loaded up my gear and headed to the lake around7:30. Later than I would have preferred but early enough for this lake. I fished an area I did well this fall and it paid off. The edge drops from 15' to 25 and I found the fish in 25 ft right on the edge. The good news is I found some nice sized white perch and Crappie. Of course I forgot my scale so nothing to enter in the OT. Maybe next time. I used a green ice pimple dressed with gulp minnows, garden hackle and spikes. All took fish but none were on fire. I also used a foraging minnow horizontal lures which took a few fish as well. I found the whites wanted the jig ripped up away from them without stopping. Anything else would just result in chasers breaking off when the jig stopped moving. I ended the morning with a pink jig, I think it was a clam tungston, kind of worm looking. It was tipped with a Maki plastic which also took fish. I left them biting. I met another fisherman who never saw a flasher and wanted a demo. I took him back to one of my holes and gave him the 101. He said he was sold and was going to buy one soon. Jiffy I think he was headed your way. All in all a much better day than the previous one.

I drilled a bunch of holes where water was pooling up on the ice to drain the water. Seemed to be working.

Spike