01-02-2011, 01:28 AM
My Dad and I got to Wild Rose around 7:30, plenty of parking still available, headed out away from the crowds a bit and quickly set up our shelters and got the heaters going (-5 below when we got there, not nearly as bad as what was predicted). We fished in 11 feet of water and were happy that we could see all the way to the bottom. It wasn't too long and we iced a small brookie and a small cut bow. Fishing was fairly steady but slow, fish would come by about every 30 minutes or so. The Brookies were the most aggressive, the cuts would play around for a while before they would finally bite. The bigger the Cut the harder they were to get to bite. We saw some real slabs swim by and they wouldn't even glance at our jigs [
]. My Dad and I ended up with 9, we kept two for the table, the biggest was around 19 inches. The hot jig for us was a pink paddle bug with a piece of worm, 7 out of our 9 caught on the same paddle bug. Most everybody around us seemed to be catching a few fish, nobody was really nailing them. Good to know the fish are still active under the ice this time of year. I can't wait for December 2011.
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]. My Dad and I ended up with 9, we kept two for the table, the biggest was around 19 inches. The hot jig for us was a pink paddle bug with a piece of worm, 7 out of our 9 caught on the same paddle bug. Most everybody around us seemed to be catching a few fish, nobody was really nailing them. Good to know the fish are still active under the ice this time of year. I can't wait for December 2011.[signature]