Northpoint and (briefly) Lake Marie

[Captain Ken]

Hit Northpoint today. Piers H and I are open for ice fishing. PLENTY of ice. Bring the gas auger if you have one - 15 or so inches. 9 FOW - marked a couple fish and got a couple bites. Caught none. Jigged waxies and also a dead shad on tip up and live shiner on tip up. The most fish we marked were right at the end of the little docks. Got tierd of not much of anything there so threw everything in the car and went over to Lake Marie. Quick stop for spikes and a few roaches and off we were. Brief stop at the cottage to sharpen the blades and we went off of dead end point. Began in 21 FOW and marked nothing and caught nothing. After 30 mins went in closer and fished in 15 FOW. Marked a number of relatively good sized (?) fish (they were solid red on the vex) they sniffed around us for a while and then left. Triangle guy said it was really slow lately. So, we had fun, but not much action coming through the holes. Ice is crystal clear adn very little snow cover. The most movement we saw was towards evening. Bring lights 'cause there are a tone of ATVs moving around and I don't know how well their headlights light things up.

Ken

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Captain Ken Kessler
www.captainken.com
Guiding in Illinois and North East Minnesota
847-970-9108 Illinois
218-742-4680 Minnesota