01-15-2016, 11:39 PM
[#0000FF]Had a report on the Abyss this week. Ice is thick enough...but the water around it is not deep enough to allow fish to move into it. Less than a foot of water all around it. Anglers fishing it found very few fish and nothing of any size.
There is hit and miss fishing inside some of the harbors. Again, skinny water...less than 2 feet deep in most spots. But fish do move in and out...until too many noisy anglers start drilling holes and stomping on the ice over the shallow water.
The big run of white bass off the first spring was over quickly. The fish moved out and are scattered around the lake. Very difficult to find any concentrations. You have to be lucky to find a "fish highway" that the fish move through. Then drill some holes and wait for them to join you.
This is a year of low water and reduced white bass numbers. Too much to expect a barn burner day. But you can sometimes find small groups of perch, crappie or bluegills if you are good...and lucky. Get there early, set up quietly and don't move around a lot on top of the ice.
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There is hit and miss fishing inside some of the harbors. Again, skinny water...less than 2 feet deep in most spots. But fish do move in and out...until too many noisy anglers start drilling holes and stomping on the ice over the shallow water.
The big run of white bass off the first spring was over quickly. The fish moved out and are scattered around the lake. Very difficult to find any concentrations. You have to be lucky to find a "fish highway" that the fish move through. Then drill some holes and wait for them to join you.
This is a year of low water and reduced white bass numbers. Too much to expect a barn burner day. But you can sometimes find small groups of perch, crappie or bluegills if you are good...and lucky. Get there early, set up quietly and don't move around a lot on top of the ice.
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