01-27-2015, 06:44 PM
Weather was nice.
Dock fishing was in our ice fishing gear and real comfortable. Right at freezing at night, little frost on the docks in the morning.
Sunny sunny sunny during the day mid to high 40's. sweatshirt and jeans with no wind, once the light light breeze would come up it was coverals and a jacket.
Boat fishing location.
We fished all bullfrog in the boats. Out past the bouy field to and just past dome rock from one side to the other. The depths seem to be about 42-48 when we caught the most of the fish. We had 1 awesome school and it was fast and furious for 15-20 minutes, landed 8 between 2 of us and missed 15 or so using Castmasters, hopkins like lure or a real image like lure and then gone done over. The finder was packet with masses of fish like 50 of them the bottom half of the depth sitting in 45 feet of water. Then an hour later we hit another good mini school and caught 3 real fast and missed 8 or 10 and then gone done over. Smaller lures seemed better this year still an ounce though. The shad are mostly smaller than last. We did troll up a few as well on glass shad or like lures on down riggers or a 1 oz bucktail with a walleye assasign salt and pepper with a chatuse sassy shad tail on leaded line. Also try running 2 1/4 oz white jig heads 18-20 inches apart with biat and just putt with you electric at like .1 or .2 mph, barley moving with a crank off the bottom. The fish were very spread out and that would be a good way to locate them as we did. All fish caught in the boats were caught down on the bottom, like the bottom 5 feet. You will see fish up higher suspended, my reccomndation is dont waste your time because we did often and never had a hit or caught a fish. Damn carp i say or some kind of non biting fish. waste of time. Even trolling we bounce the bottom and would come up just a bit so we were just off the bottom. The only exception to this is when we ran into that one awesome freak school and they we flipping everywhere in the bottom half of the water. 1 crazy exception.
One of our 3 fishing boats ran to Moki and managed 6 stripers and a crappie, I believe smaller cast masters is what they used for the stripers.
Boat fishing times were best from like 2:00-5:30 in the afternoon.
My schedule if i were going down thins weekend would be as follows, sleep till 9 or 10 am, walk arround work on the boat cut some bait, take a shower, eat linch take a nap, 2;00 roll out and hit boat fishing hard until dark, roll back to the housebaot, eat dinner, chill, putt on the ice fishing clothes and suck it up u on the docks until you cant stand it anymore. we caught fish as late as 4;30 in the morning, had some hot streaks between 1 and 3 am.
We this year and every year catch around 70% of or total stripers off the dock at night. we better numbers dock fishing.
Cheers, hope this helps..........
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Dock fishing was in our ice fishing gear and real comfortable. Right at freezing at night, little frost on the docks in the morning.
Sunny sunny sunny during the day mid to high 40's. sweatshirt and jeans with no wind, once the light light breeze would come up it was coverals and a jacket.
Boat fishing location.
We fished all bullfrog in the boats. Out past the bouy field to and just past dome rock from one side to the other. The depths seem to be about 42-48 when we caught the most of the fish. We had 1 awesome school and it was fast and furious for 15-20 minutes, landed 8 between 2 of us and missed 15 or so using Castmasters, hopkins like lure or a real image like lure and then gone done over. The finder was packet with masses of fish like 50 of them the bottom half of the depth sitting in 45 feet of water. Then an hour later we hit another good mini school and caught 3 real fast and missed 8 or 10 and then gone done over. Smaller lures seemed better this year still an ounce though. The shad are mostly smaller than last. We did troll up a few as well on glass shad or like lures on down riggers or a 1 oz bucktail with a walleye assasign salt and pepper with a chatuse sassy shad tail on leaded line. Also try running 2 1/4 oz white jig heads 18-20 inches apart with biat and just putt with you electric at like .1 or .2 mph, barley moving with a crank off the bottom. The fish were very spread out and that would be a good way to locate them as we did. All fish caught in the boats were caught down on the bottom, like the bottom 5 feet. You will see fish up higher suspended, my reccomndation is dont waste your time because we did often and never had a hit or caught a fish. Damn carp i say or some kind of non biting fish. waste of time. Even trolling we bounce the bottom and would come up just a bit so we were just off the bottom. The only exception to this is when we ran into that one awesome freak school and they we flipping everywhere in the bottom half of the water. 1 crazy exception.
One of our 3 fishing boats ran to Moki and managed 6 stripers and a crappie, I believe smaller cast masters is what they used for the stripers.
Boat fishing times were best from like 2:00-5:30 in the afternoon.
My schedule if i were going down thins weekend would be as follows, sleep till 9 or 10 am, walk arround work on the boat cut some bait, take a shower, eat linch take a nap, 2;00 roll out and hit boat fishing hard until dark, roll back to the housebaot, eat dinner, chill, putt on the ice fishing clothes and suck it up u on the docks until you cant stand it anymore. we caught fish as late as 4;30 in the morning, had some hot streaks between 1 and 3 am.
We this year and every year catch around 70% of or total stripers off the dock at night. we better numbers dock fishing.
Cheers, hope this helps..........
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