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Four of us hit the Starvation ice for maybe the final visit this winter. 4-wheeled it out of Rabbit Gulch around 2:30pm and headed towards the bridge. 20 degrees warmer than last trip, yet ice still 20", with 5" of snow atop. No Slush Monster tracks. Missed some bites, lightest of the season, but yanked 19 jumbos that came out of only 3 holes of the 8 we augered, at depths of 50-56', all within an hour of dusk:30. Even split between waxies, eyeballs and perch meat. When it was too dark to tie on, they quit, and so did we. Lots of porpoising down there to signal the "betwitching" hour, but there must be some truth to that late-winter-tough-bite thing we've all read about. Wished it could have been better, but we can't complain, as we enjoyed some pretty good winter perchin' out there this season. 'Bout time to re-spool and clean out the mess in the boat.
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Nice job guys!!! I fished the other end of the lake from dawn until about 2pm with Pikeman and didn't do nearly as well. Ended up with a couple slimers and 2 real nice jumbos, and a couple smaller ones.
I'm with you, while I've enjoyed the ice fishing this year I'm already jonesing to get the boat out!
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Glad you caught a few this trip. Still haven't made it back down that way since the wife and did our Pelican trip in early Jan. Unless the ice goes to heck between now and the 5th of March, I plan on spending a couple days at Starvation then. Sounds like there is still no problem getting on the lake with ATV's.
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