02-18-2003, 05:27 PM
Went floating at Deer creek yesterday. Water is temp is around 40 degrees. Most fish were hagin near the bottom in 30 to 40 foot depths. A few were suspemded around 45/52 feet in 75 feet of water. The bite was slow but picked up as I jigged the ice flow at the Wallsberg Channel. The six boats that were on the lake seemed to do no bettr. I only talked to three of them and I caught more fish than they did.
Shore fishing was better in that area than was boating or tubing. I had truoble satying in one spot as the wind kept blowining me away. On the way in I marked schools of fish about 30 to maybe 40 feet from the shore. They were all sitting about a foot off the bottom. I didn't get a signle bite from then though. They were hitting a white tube jig tipped with a piece of nightcrawler. Also a white foxxee w/pink head tipped with nightcrawler. The shore fishermen were using power bait and were doing ok. Everything I hooked (that I landed any way) was a bow between 14 and 16 inches. The ice is unsafe in my opinion, though I did see more than a few people on it. Well I hope this helps good luck and save some fish for the rest of us.
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Shore fishing was better in that area than was boating or tubing. I had truoble satying in one spot as the wind kept blowining me away. On the way in I marked schools of fish about 30 to maybe 40 feet from the shore. They were all sitting about a foot off the bottom. I didn't get a signle bite from then though. They were hitting a white tube jig tipped with a piece of nightcrawler. Also a white foxxee w/pink head tipped with nightcrawler. The shore fishermen were using power bait and were doing ok. Everything I hooked (that I landed any way) was a bow between 14 and 16 inches. The ice is unsafe in my opinion, though I did see more than a few people on it. Well I hope this helps good luck and save some fish for the rest of us.
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