Fishing Forum

hi,
was going to deer creek monday how is the
fishing .

thanks
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Fishing has been slow. I will be there on the North West side of the Island.
Stop by and say hi. We will be is a Qwick flip II.

I have to disagree. I've been there three times this past week and was able to catch my limit in about an hour. I've been fishing off the island about a hundred yards in 20' of water with very small jigs tipped with a piece of night crawler. All fish were caught between 11:30 and 12:30 when it was warm enough for me to want to be out there.[cool]
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What kind of fish and how big???
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Rainbows - 12-20". The little ones appear to be natives; the bigger ones planters. I've been hoping to catch a walleye there, so I've been fishing within a foot of the bottom, but I've only fished at midday as I no longer like to freeze. Later in spring when it's a little warmer, I may try the evening when the walleyes are more cooperative.
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If you want to catch walleyes thru ice go real early in mornin almost dark still and head over by rainbow bay along the rocky point, use small pearl colored maniac lure tipped with meal worm, thats the ticket for me at deer creek thru the ice.
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how deep do you go? never caught a walleye thru the ice. would love to catch one of those big ones that i know are in there.
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How thick is the ice. Deer creek was sure a hot spot last year for me.
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The ice at rainbow bay was 6-7". Not alot of snow on the ice either, just enough to make walking easy! The fishing was very slow on monday![mad]
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We went to Deer Creek yesterday (Monday, Jan 19) pretty early in the morning. We got there just past 7:00 am and were about the second group on the ice. It was cold that early in the morning. Our thermometers registered one degree above zero. We fished on the west side of the island in 10-45 feet of water (depending on the distance out from the island) and used all kinds of small jigs (white, yellow, etc) and a couple of bigger ones tipped with nightcrawler, wax worm, even sucker meat. The weather was cold and the fishing was slow, so most of the group (about a dozen fathers and younger boys) left empty handed around 10:00 am. Just after that, I caught my first fish, a fat 16" rainbow in the shallow water right next to the island. The little yellow jig with a wax worm (sweetened with crawdad Smelly Jelly) did the trick. About an hour later, I caught another rainbow (about 13") from the same hole. Other than that we had virtually no action the whole day. Once in a while we'd get a nibble, and once in a while the finder showed a few fish passing through, but that was it. In the afternoon our grandkids came up and had fun on the ice with us, but we couldn't catch anything for them. It was a beautiful day on the ice, however. Lots of sunshine and "ice flowers." The kids left at 4:00 when it started getting cold again. "The Champ" and I stayed until 5:30, after sunset. We thought the bite might pick up at dusk, but we were wrong. We caught our only two fish just before noon.
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I went out Monday also. We were just north of your group in the quick flip. We moved around a bit and fished in 15-37' of water. My son caught one on the first drop and thought it would be a good day then nothing till about 10:30 then I caught one about 14" and then another at about 11:30 then nothing. I left at 1:00. As I left everybody was asking where the fish are so I suppose they weren't catching any either.
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