12-19-2003, 09:45 PM
The ice was about six inches thick where we were. I only saw one other set of old holes. No one else came to fish while we were there. I didn't venture out to the new ice to see how thick it was.
I started off using a white 1/16 oz paddle bug tipped with a piece of crawler and crawdad smelly jelly. My cousin was using a small glow ice jig with crawler and crawdad jelly under a swedish pimple. Towards the end I switched over the same set up but with a pink shrimpo. That seemed to work a little better.
We were over 23 feet of water and the fishfinder was marking fish at 7 feet, but for some reason they wouldn't have anything to do with us. We would have caught more if we would have gone deeper sooner. We finally started fishing just off the bottom and that was the key. Even though the sonar showed only about 10% as many fish right on the bottom, those were the only ones that wanted to bite.
I'm assuming that once the whole lake freezes that the fishing will pick up too. I hope so anyways. I want to get some big'uns.
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I started off using a white 1/16 oz paddle bug tipped with a piece of crawler and crawdad smelly jelly. My cousin was using a small glow ice jig with crawler and crawdad jelly under a swedish pimple. Towards the end I switched over the same set up but with a pink shrimpo. That seemed to work a little better.
We were over 23 feet of water and the fishfinder was marking fish at 7 feet, but for some reason they wouldn't have anything to do with us. We would have caught more if we would have gone deeper sooner. We finally started fishing just off the bottom and that was the key. Even though the sonar showed only about 10% as many fish right on the bottom, those were the only ones that wanted to bite.
I'm assuming that once the whole lake freezes that the fishing will pick up too. I hope so anyways. I want to get some big'uns.
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