01-30-2011, 04:40 PM
Firs,t thanks to all for the ice condition updates from folks...ice was great, port ramp was good to launch the wheeler
fishing was great on Friday, we fished many spots from 8-6pm anywhere from 11' to 44' had to weed thru the small ones but ended up bringing home close to a limit for each of us, nothing huge..6-7.5"....figured we caught between 250-300, a couple small crappie. Finished the day off shallow by the islands, with 40-60 caught in about an hour right before dark. Was a good day.
Sat..got there a little late and the plan was to stay late and fish for crappie at night. Got into the perch right away, but mostly small ones, by the islands...ended up moving to the west side of Browning and started slaying the keeper perch.25' was the hot hole. stayed there for the night..but when the sun went down...the fish went away...no crappies or perch. Fished 18-42' till 9 pm. not a single hit. Dont have the night time at the view figured out yet. Some other guys came out close by us.....around 8pm, but didnt talk to them...they seem to have a spot picked out, so maybe we were in a good spot..just a bad night fishing? Anybody do well at night there? All in all, a great couple of days, was also easy to get away from the crowds with a wheeler, like was said before..lots of people fishing on top of people. Crazy. Glad to see the perch making a comeback..not back to the bigger size yet but next year should be good.
Oh..forgot to mention one of our group hooked a tiger...had him to the hole after a good tussle, a good 3 footer, 2 more runs then snap...was good to see it tho. We also had another Tiger hit a caught perch and take off for the dam..didnt see him at all. So that was exciting. sorry no pictures of the perch..but they will be tasty today!
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fishing was great on Friday, we fished many spots from 8-6pm anywhere from 11' to 44' had to weed thru the small ones but ended up bringing home close to a limit for each of us, nothing huge..6-7.5"....figured we caught between 250-300, a couple small crappie. Finished the day off shallow by the islands, with 40-60 caught in about an hour right before dark. Was a good day.
Sat..got there a little late and the plan was to stay late and fish for crappie at night. Got into the perch right away, but mostly small ones, by the islands...ended up moving to the west side of Browning and started slaying the keeper perch.25' was the hot hole. stayed there for the night..but when the sun went down...the fish went away...no crappies or perch. Fished 18-42' till 9 pm. not a single hit. Dont have the night time at the view figured out yet. Some other guys came out close by us.....around 8pm, but didnt talk to them...they seem to have a spot picked out, so maybe we were in a good spot..just a bad night fishing? Anybody do well at night there? All in all, a great couple of days, was also easy to get away from the crowds with a wheeler, like was said before..lots of people fishing on top of people. Crazy. Glad to see the perch making a comeback..not back to the bigger size yet but next year should be good.
Oh..forgot to mention one of our group hooked a tiger...had him to the hole after a good tussle, a good 3 footer, 2 more runs then snap...was good to see it tho. We also had another Tiger hit a caught perch and take off for the dam..didnt see him at all. So that was exciting. sorry no pictures of the perch..but they will be tasty today!
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