01-02-2021, 03:17 PM
My son and I went up on New Years Day and there were a fair number of people on the lake. Snow pack is pathetic. We were a bit late getting there and the people we talked to didn't have any fish on the ice. We got lots of bites that we couldn't connect with. I didn't get new wax worms and I tried some dried ones my wife found at one of the stores. The fish wouldn't touch them. There was another group where we usually go and once they left I went and tried our normal spot. They had left wax worms laying around and when I used the fresh ones I got the fish to bite (at least until I ran out of the fresh ones). I did manage to land some nice cuts in the 15-16 inch range and found out who the nibblers were. They must have planted a bunch of very small rainbows and they were the ones who kept stealing our stuff. It was a beautiful day but it got cold once the sun went down.