Henry's Ice

[SkunkedAgain]

I made it out on Friday and we had a few failures in getting on the ice to start out... first area the road was a bit too slick and icy for the vehicle we were in, so we went to the state park and wow, you ever watched the seals on the national geographic special? That ice ledge looked kind of like that.... Not sure you could have squeezed many more ice fishermen on it... so we went to another unnamed area that we ended up being the only two nuts to go out on it, but it was 3-4" of ice so i was okay with the spot... Started at 9:30 and by 10:45 we had caught 15-16 fish between the two of us... All between 19-21" and really pretty fish, great fighters and I had a total blast... I remember why I love Henry's and Ice Fishing.... I was really afraid we were going to have a bust of a trip, so I count myself really lucky to have started so late in the day and still been able to catch some fish... Like most are saying the fish pretty much quit biting around 10:30 so be there early if you can... Also most of the lake was about 1-2" of ice on Friday, way short of what I'd consider safe ice... Make sure to take a spud and use it, I was taking about 3 hits to go through where we fished, but other spots it went through first hit... We didn't get on there... We were fishing in shallow water, about 4-5' deep, so I could almost see the bottom... fish were hitting tentatively, I watched them taking it sort of side mouthed, and not getting the hook into their mouths, they also did lots of tail swipes, so I had about 4 or 5 hits to each fish we caught... So yes it was very good fishing, I had a total blast... Later J