01-26-2023, 03:24 PM
Last year I met up with one of my fishing buddies launching GC State Park. We headed over to the Rockpile and started jigging for Cisco. There were only 4-5 boats in the area. As I remembered it was brutely frigid, but we were cozy with an enclosure & tank top heater. With a small propane grill on board for not cooking with, I had precooked a couple of meals the night before for a hot breakfast with both bringing our own thermos of coffee. Wind was not a factor on the calm seas that day but there was an ever so slight breeze which set us for a slow drift. We started upwind drifting & watching the fishfinder drifting over the Rockpile. We did get our 30-limit cisco each and 1 rod & reel setup I jigged off of the bottom. We had the idea at the beginning to do some trolling, it was just too cold with a lot of ice forming from the dripping rods around the transom & on the boat floor. Decided to pack up and head in.