12-09-2002, 02:29 AM
Hit the crawfords looking for antelope this morning. On the way home we stopped by woodruff for a little ice fishing. The ice is plenty thick enough to fish. Between 4-5 inches thick. Lots of guys fishing it. The reports have been good from the weekend with lots of repeat anglers. Ranibow sparkle will have to give you his report, as he was using different tackle and techniques than I was. I was using my standard curl tail grub tipped with a wax worm. The trick that worked fro me was to free spool the jig down through the water column stopping it every three feet, then letting it fall again. I was in 50 ft of water, once the jig hit bottom, I reeled up a bit ang jigged it. If no bite came, I reeled back up and started the three foot drop and wait then drop falling technique again. I did manage a few bonus fisah that hit the jig while I was not jigging, the pole was laying on my chair when the tip dipped. Was a great little trip for the first ice of the year. The road over monte cristoe is open regardless of the signs that say it is closed. Its just a small lake that is getting a lot of pressure right now being that it is one of the few lakes with ice on, so if you go, please excersice good judgement and practise catch and release. Every one on the ice was keeping limits leaving rainbow sparkle and my self as the odd men out. But it can be critical on these small lakes. Rainbow sparkle has photos and some video of the days fishing events, hopefully he will post up the pics and share the techniques that worked for him.