01-02-2015, 06:22 AM
Fished the backyard today with lots of company. Started late at about 1pm, drilled a hole and set depth and after removing the depth finder while dropping the white paddle bug tipped with half a mealie got bit near the end of the drop and hooked a nice fish. After about a 3 minute see-saw fight I got cut off on the bottom of the ice hole without seeing the fish. Thought it might be a good afternoon. Drilled 4 more holes setting out 4 poles on jawjackers and jigging with the 5th rod. In 3 hours caught one chub on a tiger jig tipped with mealie.. Six guys set up next to me and seemed to get a few more bites than I did but landed only one chub in about the same time as I using nightcrawlers. One guy fishing away from us came bye to visit saying he had caught 1 nice trout and a few small planters early in the day. The group next to me packed it in and I moved out to where the guy that reported catching the trout had fished. Skimmed out the holes and dropped a white paddle bug and got a lite bite, set it in a jawjacker with no further action. Dropped a tiger jig down the next hole found bottom and got bit hooking a good fish. Landed a nice spawned out brown which I released.
fished a while longer catching a medium sized sucker. Overall a very slow day. Talked to one other single angler who caught a few small perch in the 4-5" range actively jigging with a flasher unit. Ice was 4-8" with 2" of snow crust and some slushy watery spots.
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fished a while longer catching a medium sized sucker. Overall a very slow day. Talked to one other single angler who caught a few small perch in the 4-5" range actively jigging with a flasher unit. Ice was 4-8" with 2" of snow crust and some slushy watery spots.
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