12-17-2011, 03:28 PM
Saw an earlier post on Newton ice not being potentially very safe, we originally canceled the trip to wait another week. But thank God for w-o-r-k and it came through yet again…so because of the crapola day at w-o-r-k Thursday said screw it we're going to Newton on Friday.
Arrived at Newton little after 9AM off a little before 3PM. Air temp was 18* with fog. There was one fella on the ice with two more getting ready to go on ice.
Got our ice fish’n gear on unloaded the ice fishing sleds with do-dads an onto the ice we went from the boat ramp. Walked up along the shoreline away from the dam.
Talked with one guy about 40’ out from shore and he stated the ice was 5". So we kept walking past the first point moved out off the shore and started drilling holes working out like every 15' total of 5 holes to start and ice thickness was clear and solid 5-6" in all the holes. Farthest out from shore we were was maybe 75'.
Dropped down the flashers transducers into the holes and yep ‘thar’ be fishes as the flasher indicated...but the bite was slow and very, very light when it bite did happen. Yet again, the bite indicators proved themselves a very worthy lil gizmo.
Fish were holding right on the bottom. Productive depth was 30-35’. Ice hole out close to 40’ flasher indicated fish but they just weren’t interested. Punched 5 more holes and flasher indicated they were there just didn’t seem to eager to visit.
Lures used were Shrimpo tipped with waxie and Ant tipped with waxie and from one keeper used its eyes. For me Ant tipped waxie with an eye seemed to work the best. Dead sticking didn’t really produce had to jig ever so slightly to get the ones that appeared interested more willing to partake. Other lures used were demons, pimples, TD jigs. So for this trip producing lures for us on Newton were the Shrimpo and Ant.
We managed 9 keeper Perch no Crappie this trip and one 5-6" LMB (back down the hole it went). Largest Perch went a little over 10" with the others in the 8-9" bracket. Of course the occasional 5-6” dinks visited. Being rusty with the 3’ rods missed other light hits…slow on the hook set.
[#000000]The Solunar phase indicated it would be a slow fish day and it was. For being slow we got most of our finned critters during the minor period after 10- to little after noon. Roughly almost 2-hour window of productive fishing even though slow. Largest ones came during this window.[/#000000]
[#000000][size 3]All in all it was a very nice drive and first hard deck trip for us. Got enough for a small Perch dinner tonight and that’s what counts…PLUS I WASN’T at W-O-R-K.[cool][cool][/size][/#000000]
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Arrived at Newton little after 9AM off a little before 3PM. Air temp was 18* with fog. There was one fella on the ice with two more getting ready to go on ice.
Got our ice fish’n gear on unloaded the ice fishing sleds with do-dads an onto the ice we went from the boat ramp. Walked up along the shoreline away from the dam.
Talked with one guy about 40’ out from shore and he stated the ice was 5". So we kept walking past the first point moved out off the shore and started drilling holes working out like every 15' total of 5 holes to start and ice thickness was clear and solid 5-6" in all the holes. Farthest out from shore we were was maybe 75'.
Dropped down the flashers transducers into the holes and yep ‘thar’ be fishes as the flasher indicated...but the bite was slow and very, very light when it bite did happen. Yet again, the bite indicators proved themselves a very worthy lil gizmo.
Fish were holding right on the bottom. Productive depth was 30-35’. Ice hole out close to 40’ flasher indicated fish but they just weren’t interested. Punched 5 more holes and flasher indicated they were there just didn’t seem to eager to visit.
Lures used were Shrimpo tipped with waxie and Ant tipped with waxie and from one keeper used its eyes. For me Ant tipped waxie with an eye seemed to work the best. Dead sticking didn’t really produce had to jig ever so slightly to get the ones that appeared interested more willing to partake. Other lures used were demons, pimples, TD jigs. So for this trip producing lures for us on Newton were the Shrimpo and Ant.
We managed 9 keeper Perch no Crappie this trip and one 5-6" LMB (back down the hole it went). Largest Perch went a little over 10" with the others in the 8-9" bracket. Of course the occasional 5-6” dinks visited. Being rusty with the 3’ rods missed other light hits…slow on the hook set.
[#000000]The Solunar phase indicated it would be a slow fish day and it was. For being slow we got most of our finned critters during the minor period after 10- to little after noon. Roughly almost 2-hour window of productive fishing even though slow. Largest ones came during this window.[/#000000]
[#000000][size 3]All in all it was a very nice drive and first hard deck trip for us. Got enough for a small Perch dinner tonight and that’s what counts…PLUS I WASN’T at W-O-R-K.[cool][cool][/size][/#000000]
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]. Where do you get your Solunar phase chart from? Thanks