12-29-2021, 01:27 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2021, 01:29 AM by wiperhunter2.)
Ira and I got up to Echo today started fishing around 9am. We drove in with no issues, parked down near ramp and walked on with little problem, although there was a little soft edge where we got on, lucky that someone left a plank there, so it wasn't an issue. We started drilling holes and once we found 25 FOW we found the fish and started catching lille dink perch, most were around 4 to 6" but Ira did catch two nice ones and a couple of trout. All in all a pretty decent outting for my first ice fishing trip of the season. The catching slowed way down between 12 and 1pm but picked up a little after that. Ice was 4.5" thick and we saw at least one person using a snow dog out there. lots of people out there but most were spead out pretty good from the dam all the way past the boat ramp. We had our best luck using a varity of TD's wobbler jigs tipped with either chub meat or perch meat and even meal worms. Perch were on the bottom, trout were 10 to 12 down.