Pineview luck!!!

[Sandalland]

Hit PV this morning south of cemetery point. Caught 2 perch and a small catfish in four hours. I hope everyone else has better luck. It was nothing like it was for my wife and I last year for us. Hoping to maybe hit it again new years and see if I can turn my luck around.
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[cd3rapala]

Was that you guys next to me? I had a 7 on the ice then nothing..they just moved on. It was very slow to start and just died at the end.
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[wiperhunter2]

Well thats too bad, how deep were you fishing and how early did you get there?
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[triton21]

Hit PV at 330 this afternoon and got 26 in hr and a half. 20', 1 inch off the bottom glow jig and waxy...
good luck the bites are very light.
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[Sandalland]

I'm was the one in camo with my wife and daughter with the blue clam pop up? We got there at nine and were fishing in 16-17 feet. I think that was the biggest problem. Is it deeper the farther west you go? I had good luck where we were last year but the water level was higher I wanna say we were in 19-22 feet of water then.
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[wiperhunter2]

We were there on Sat and the folks that did the best were in 18 to 20ft of water. Once you hit 20 ft of water it is very flat, we walked out about 400 yds and it only got 2ft deeper.
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[cd3rapala]

Yeah I was in 20 ft. Give it a few weeks and they'll stack up even more.
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[Jazzperch1]

A friend of mine and me went to pineview Saturday morning at about 630 am. fished in the dark for about a half hour and until about 12 30.
between us we got about 20 crappies and about 12 perch. Most of the crappies were small but some big enough to fillet.
Fished in 27 FOW with rat finkees
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[baldassbat]

We fished Causey Saturday morning for about two hours and had no luck. Very busy.

Moved down to Pineview and started fishing the north side of cemetery point about 10am. Lots of small crappie on the bottom in about 30 feet of water. The perch were usually up about 10 feet. I had one real good size crappie and kept five mid-sized perch. Threw countless small fish back. Fishing the bottom with a pink and white ice fly tipped with nightcrawler I could reliably catch a small crappie any time I chose. Just jig it twice and wait ten seconds for a very light bite. The perch were a little more aggressive when they hit, but you still had to be quick because they didn't wait around after striking it once.
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[rooster32]

Man...wish we did that well. Were there Sun. from around 10am till 4pm. Between 8 of us we caught 2 crappie, 1 perch and 3 catfish. I caught one of the crappie and yes the bite was extremely light.

We were in about 28' off Browning point. We fished pink ratfinkies above a spoon for weight. Baited the ratfinkies with wax worms. Are you guys using ratfinkies all by themselves or using them with something else to help get them down?

First time taking the family out...I need redemption to keep them interested!
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[Troutman_2]

I am thinking hard about ringing the new year in on the ice.
Has anyone heard how the Crappie fishing is in the narrows? I might "camp" there tonight.
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[Island20]

We did ok on Saturday. The key for us was keeping the bait 2-4 inches of the bottom for perch any higher and no bites. Got 20+ 8 inchers in about 2 hours. If your not getting any bites in 20 min,
move.
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[muskycoop]

hit the Narrows a week ago for crappie at night. Caught 7 between us in 3 hours nothing over 8" where last year we were catching plenty of 10 to 12 inchers.
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