Who's ice fish'n&whatcha catch'n

[palisade1kid]

I forget the day but it's the last sat. of the month.

We have a good 6" of ice.The snow is coming down sideways.

Rick & I hit BSL this morning at 7.

There was no snow at the time.

The barometer was 30.27 and falling.We drilled holes along the mud bar

and instantly marked fish up to 6 foot off of the bottom which was so different from yesterday.

Yesterday they were pinned to the bottom or a foot off.

I knew it was going to be a better day ,however being BSL's bite is better with the sun the bite was still slow.Having fish higher was promising though.

I was thinking if we could stick it out until the pressure dropped ,but by the time it did the fish disappeared.

I worked many holes and hardly marked a one.

So anyways I get this email a few days ago from George.

He says I'd like some help understanding my Vexilar and I'd like to try your jig.Well I could not resist the opportunity to help a guy out.

About an hour after we got there George comes walking up.

a very amicable guy for sure.

It amazes me at how many great guys I've met through these online forums.

We spent a few minutes talking about reading the Vexilar and gain settings.

I rig him up with T.H.E. Jig and we proceed to fish.

I had a few smaller ones before he got there and then I tag this slab.

Soon after Scott say ya baby!

check out this one.

I was proud to see how he used what we had talked about and caught his 1st 13" slab on T.H.E. Jig.

You can see how finicky those fish were with the placement of the hook.

Mine had just a piece of skin up front.a loose drag kept me from pulling that one loose.

Here's George's mule ....see where T.H.E. Jig is.

A few minutes goes by and although the fish we were catching were about 5-6 feet from the bottom I see a flicker on the bottom.Ya just gotta love

a flasher.

So I drop down to it and after 3 seconds I lifted a foot.The signal separates from the bottom.OOOOO here it comes I'm thinking.I lifted another foot and the fish came up and barely popped my spring. I reared and once the fish got half way up it really started fighting.I loosened my drag a skosh more and worked this guy up my hole.

I had George shoot another pic for me.

We left at noon ,but by all accounts it was a great day and George was still catching fish.

[dartsportsteve]

Looks like fun to me!

[Zaraspooks]

Great report and great pictures. I can't wait to get out.

[palisade1kid]

Most all lakes north of the big pond are up to about 6-7 inches.

Some deep lakes may have the middle open though....go figure with as cold as it's been.