01-13-2021, 01:52 PM
I had work up in Eden, so decided to fish Pineview in the evening and mix in a little pleasure after the working was finished. I like to double up on opportunities when I can, and after reading Backyard Boy's report from the previous day, it sounded like a good play.
Got on the ice and fishing about 4pm. Found 40 FOW about 150 yards SE of the Port Ramp. My initial offerings were ignored except for one apparently wayward perch. There was a gentleman fishing about 50 yards to my west, so I went over to chat and met Old Scout from this forum. He was just getting ready to leave and had more fish passing thru. We had a nice conversation, and he invited me to try his holes, so once he packed up and left, and my holes were still slow, I moved over and gave them a try.
The perch picked up about 4:30 and were fairly steady until about 5:30 then dropped off. I wanted to try and land some crappie, but man, the bite was extremely light and hard to time. They would just kiss the bait, and only hit once maybe twice if you were lucky. Started with the rod in the holder, but had to hold it in order to have any success because after the initial bump, they usually moved on. Ended up landing 4 and missed twice that. The crappie turned on about 6:30 and died off at about 8pm. Ended the night with a banker's dozen perch (8" avg) and the 4 crappie between 8-9" (I'd post a photo, but all of a sudden, the site is telling me all my files are too large and haven't figured out how to compress then yet). All in all, a nice night on the lake.
Fished the same green/yellow or yellow/green hali's with either yellow or white/pink glow ratfinkie above. Hali tipped with worm and RF with wax worm. The glow did seem to help. Perch were tight to the bottom, and I got the crappie about 3-4 cranks off the bottom. They preferred dead stick over jigging.
Spoke to another fisher who was off Browning Point, and he said crappie were thick there in 40 FOW too, but again, bite was extremely light.
Got on the ice and fishing about 4pm. Found 40 FOW about 150 yards SE of the Port Ramp. My initial offerings were ignored except for one apparently wayward perch. There was a gentleman fishing about 50 yards to my west, so I went over to chat and met Old Scout from this forum. He was just getting ready to leave and had more fish passing thru. We had a nice conversation, and he invited me to try his holes, so once he packed up and left, and my holes were still slow, I moved over and gave them a try.
The perch picked up about 4:30 and were fairly steady until about 5:30 then dropped off. I wanted to try and land some crappie, but man, the bite was extremely light and hard to time. They would just kiss the bait, and only hit once maybe twice if you were lucky. Started with the rod in the holder, but had to hold it in order to have any success because after the initial bump, they usually moved on. Ended up landing 4 and missed twice that. The crappie turned on about 6:30 and died off at about 8pm. Ended the night with a banker's dozen perch (8" avg) and the 4 crappie between 8-9" (I'd post a photo, but all of a sudden, the site is telling me all my files are too large and haven't figured out how to compress then yet). All in all, a nice night on the lake.
Fished the same green/yellow or yellow/green hali's with either yellow or white/pink glow ratfinkie above. Hali tipped with worm and RF with wax worm. The glow did seem to help. Perch were tight to the bottom, and I got the crappie about 3-4 cranks off the bottom. They preferred dead stick over jigging.
Spoke to another fisher who was off Browning Point, and he said crappie were thick there in 40 FOW too, but again, bite was extremely light.