02-03-2025, 03:15 PM
Fishing is still good! First hole at 35’ had one bite so moved about 50 feet away on top of a school that produced about 100 fish! Ended up keeping 70 between 2 anglers. Only about 8 or 10 were 9.5-10”ers
Wind was as bad as I’ve ever seen it on the lake and it even broke one of my anchor straps. Ice was 8” and if you weren’t wearing cleats you were struggling to move around. But the take away for the day, I picked up an electric filet knife and my god I’m a believer now! 30 perch used to take over an hour and I did them in about 25 minutes. The differences I noticed are most importantly time, but also you can’t get as much of the filet as you can with your regular filet knife but it’s well worth it to save your time!
Wind was as bad as I’ve ever seen it on the lake and it even broke one of my anchor straps. Ice was 8” and if you weren’t wearing cleats you were struggling to move around. But the take away for the day, I picked up an electric filet knife and my god I’m a believer now! 30 perch used to take over an hour and I did them in about 25 minutes. The differences I noticed are most importantly time, but also you can’t get as much of the filet as you can with your regular filet knife but it’s well worth it to save your time!