01-31-2025, 08:40 PM
Dug in at 7:30am. 13-deg, but no wind. Got 9 fat perch from 8-10am over 31', then they slowed down. As many 5-7"ers in between. About a dozen of us fishing west & south out from the ramp, and another dozen groups in the NE quadrant by the dam. Moved out to the 42-47' range around 10:30 and got another dozen nice ones. No feeding frenzy, just one here, one there, along with an equal # of dinks. Best rig all morning was a sagging drop-shot with an eyeball on a mosquito hook --- instead of keeping the line tight to the weight, I let the bait sag down to the point where my line looked as tho there was nothing on it. The fish wanted that weightless eyeball barely off the bottom. Got a couple on Hali's and tungstens with perch slivers, but those light biters sucked that weightless eyeball in & were hooked. A cold wind came up around 11-ish, so walked off the ice 30-min later.. Looked like the area out from new state park also had its share of anglers this morning.