01-15-2011, 03:19 AM
Hit our favorite federally managed body of water today. [
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Arrived at 0730 and the temp was 31* departure about 1600 temp 34*.
About 2" of fresh wet snow on the ice...ice showed areas of slush but nothing bad at all easy walking.
There were snowmobiles and ATVs on the ice today...ice thickness since last week possibly an inch more for a total of roughly 6" solid ice with about 2-3" of previous frozen slush then the additonal new 2" of wet snow.
Headed out to 40-45' of water yep the dink Perch are out in force...between both of us probably had 75 easy. Nothing over 7"... Did find some nice slabo Crappie along with smaller keepers and the 3" dinks were also plentiful.
Lures used were Nuclear Ants variety of colors but chaurtruese seems to be the hot color for us anyways. I switched to a small Swedish Pimple with glow strip...them Crappie really liked that...nailed 3 nice size ones in about 7 minutes. Crappie were up probably 5-7' off the bottom...with the Vexilar I dropped down to the fish signals...reel up about 6" to a foot above them then jig above them and would watch the fish come up and every so lightly take the offerings as I just noted a very slight bend in the spring bobber then I'd set the hook...I tried dead sticking it and an occassional Perch but no Crappie...seems the fish wanted some type of almost constant movement of the lure. Jigging worked for us this trip...
So there you have it for our PV venture...had fun and thats what counts. [
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] Arrived at 0730 and the temp was 31* departure about 1600 temp 34*.
About 2" of fresh wet snow on the ice...ice showed areas of slush but nothing bad at all easy walking.
There were snowmobiles and ATVs on the ice today...ice thickness since last week possibly an inch more for a total of roughly 6" solid ice with about 2-3" of previous frozen slush then the additonal new 2" of wet snow.
Headed out to 40-45' of water yep the dink Perch are out in force...between both of us probably had 75 easy. Nothing over 7"... Did find some nice slabo Crappie along with smaller keepers and the 3" dinks were also plentiful.
Lures used were Nuclear Ants variety of colors but chaurtruese seems to be the hot color for us anyways. I switched to a small Swedish Pimple with glow strip...them Crappie really liked that...nailed 3 nice size ones in about 7 minutes. Crappie were up probably 5-7' off the bottom...with the Vexilar I dropped down to the fish signals...reel up about 6" to a foot above them then jig above them and would watch the fish come up and every so lightly take the offerings as I just noted a very slight bend in the spring bobber then I'd set the hook...I tried dead sticking it and an occassional Perch but no Crappie...seems the fish wanted some type of almost constant movement of the lure. Jigging worked for us this trip...
So there you have it for our PV venture...had fun and thats what counts. [
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