01-04-2005, 10:31 PM
Fished the marina this morning in 18-20 feet of water. Got a little new snow last night (less than 2 inches). Some w... blowing all morning but not too cold. We arrived and started fishing at 7:15 and fished for 3.5 hours. The good news is that most of the slush layer has frozen and the powder has developed a crust down about 2-3 inches so walking and pulling a sled was so much easier than Saturday. I doubt it is solid enough for a wheeler though... I fished with cyclonejack and another friend. I pretty much got schooled today in my own fishing hole. CJ landed 14 and my other friend landed about 13 or 14. I only landed 8. So we landed over 35 fish between us. We also missed a lot of hits and lost some at the hole which were not counted in the fish total. All fish were cutts in the slot with the biggest one 20.5 inches. We also caught a cutt with a totally messed up mouth (he had two mouths). It looked just like the one that someone posted a picture of last week. Used foxee's, paddlebugs, and curlytailed jigs tipped with mealys or minnows. When one thing quit working we changed things up and would usually catch another fish or two. The fish seemed to be in schools again and we would catch a couple at a time and then nothing for 30 minutes. Not too many people fishing today (maybe 20 people total at the marina). They now have Mud Creek plowed down much farther than on saturday. Not sure how far but looks like all the way down to the bottom parking lot. It was another fantastic day at my favorite lake! Its hard to beat when you can consistently catch fish that size and plenty of them.
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