01-13-2022, 02:43 PM
Wiperslayer and I got up to Echo yesterday, arriving a little after 8am. Briefly talked to Dubob before heading to a new location by the dam. We have been fishing off the ramp the last few weeks but decided to try a new location. That did not turn out to be a good move. We drove along the beach almost as far as we could before you hit the rocks, there was already one truck there, so we fished down from them. The first thing we noticed was that the water level had come up since last week, about 4 ft, so the ice was thinner about 4 or 5 ft out but still fine to walk out on. We set up in 23 to 37 FOW, we both got a few bites but no fish. JJannie came out and started fishing with us but they were not having any luck either. Finally Ira and I started punching hole, we went deeper and then to as shallow as 10" but nothing looked good, so we packed up and headed over to where we have been fishing the last two weeks. We got there and got set up arond 11am nothing for an hour then at noon the switch turned on and we started getting fish coming in. Ira started catching fish, he got two trout and three perch before I finally started getting in on the action. Dubob had been moving around and finally he came over closer to us before he ended the day. He had done better than us but not as good as his previous trip out there. Sounds like it's time to give another lake a go, now that things are finally freesing up better. Pretty nice day out with low wind until around noon.