02-18-2025, 02:51 AM
(02-17-2025, 11:24 PM)obifishkenobi Wrote: Thanks for the report Paul, sounds very similar to how we did today. I took my neighbor kid Corbin and met up with MWscott72 this morning on the south end, off of the Dry Gulch campground at 6:30am. The edges there look a lot worse than they are. We walked across 10' of slushy ankle deep water then onto solid ice and walked north several hundred yards and spent the day bouncing around holes in 32' of water. Fishing was never fast but it was pretty steady until about 11am then slowed considerably, we caught close to 50 solid fat perch, 14 Rainbows and 1 Brown trout. The perch and brown where caught on eyeballs on a 1/32oz. Chartreuse Gizzy Bug under a !/8oz Kastmaster. The Rainbows where caught dead sticking white with red flake 1/8oz. Gizzillas, tipped with salted chub, suspended between 8-20' deep. We also met up with Jon Deyoung and his crew but they where in a large tent and not fishing right next to Mike, Corbin and I, but I know they caught fish as well. I was surprised that we where the only ones on that end of the lake, we had the place to our selves on a holiday no less. I'll post some pictures when the add photo button comes back.
It was a great day on the ice! It was strange not seeing many on the ice on a holiday. We all caught fish in our tent. We bounced around at the beginning and the popped up the tent where we seemed to be catching more perch. I had two new to ice fishing that only casting a couple. My son, and nephew caught a fair share of good sized perch. We were catching them on wax worms, meal worms, perch eyes, and chub meat. Thanks again for the invite Shawn!