Echo - Two reports in one.

[dubob]

[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]This week has been very busy and I’ve been remiss in reporting the results of two trips to Echo this week. They were great trips and produced some of this season’s BEST perch fishing. And I have pictures to prove it. Let me start with the first trip last Monday.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I went by myself this trip and started out on the East side at the resort. The ride to the ice on my snowmobile was touch and go with the snow melt clearing half the lot and a lot of the snow on land. Got to the ice and the edge was FIRM. Drove about a half mile south of the resort and set up in 35 feet of water and immediately started catching fish. Nice fish! Eight to ten inchers. A couple small ones were damaged on the trip up to the surface, so were added to the pile. When I got a dozen, I loaded up and headed over to the West side were two other fishermen were parked. The first one I got to was none other than FishinPhil. He invited me to join him – so I did.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I finished out my limit of 20 by 2:00 and headed back to the truck. The edges were wet, but still FIRM. Went right over the edge without breaking through. Here is a picture of the limit on Monday. Oh, and I kept one trout for the smoker.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I went back up on Wednesday and met up with FishinPhil again. I brought my neighbor Tom along and we launched off the South Beach. Again, the edge was FIRM and there was no problem with both of us riding the machine and pulling two sleds behind.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]We set up on the West side and started catching fish immediately. The bite would come and go and we were catching a lot of fish under 6 inches and they were all released. At times the bite was fast and furious with Phil catching two at once on one pole and yours truly catching one each on two poles at the same time. This happened more than once.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]Phil left about 1:30 or so and we hung around until 3:00. I limited out with 20 fish right at 3:00 PM and Tom had 14 on the ice. Phil left with I think 18. Here is a picture of my 20. (One flopped out of the picture frame.)[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]We headed for the South Beach area and found the edge ice – you guessed it – FIRM. I little wet from the 35 plus temps, but firm none the less.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]I expect to be back up there with the snowmobile at least two times next week. What days are you going back up next week Phil?[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]For all you folks that have put there gear up for the season, eat your heart out. The ice is STILL at least 2 feet thick and there is absolutely no slush anywhere. Snowmobiles are the ticket for travel to and from the fishing spot. Quads would probably also work with no problems in the early morning getting on and I’d guess getting off would be okay by keeping your speed up while transitioning the edge.[/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3]That’s it for now. Have a great weekend.[/size][/font]
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[trowtslayr]

Great [fishon]report! Thanks. The gates were all locked and my buddy didnt think it wise or possible to get to the lake on his 4wheeler. That was last weekend on saturday. How are you getting on the lake? We ended up going to rockport but couldnt get the fish to bite, we found a bunch on the fishfinder out in the middle of the lake and moved 3 different times and only iced one fish all day. I did miss 3 other bites but that was it. Really wanted to fish Echo, have heard alot of good reports coming out of there this year.
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[Lettsfish]

Thanks for the report and pic's.

That Phil will just sneak out there and whack those perch. Hey Phil, how come you weren't catching dinks like a week ago. Did you go clear over to the other (west) side??

If the edges hold, that ice might be fishable for quite a while.
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[dubob]

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[font "Times New Roman"]. . . we launched off the South Beach.[/font]

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[hlfmoon]

You ate 20 fish on Tuesday??[unsure]
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[BigBuck3333]

no he gave 20 to me and i ate em any more morinc questions,what are you a fish cop.
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[dubob]

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[size 1]You ate 20 fish on Tuesday??[unsure] [/size]

[/size]No, my wife ate half. Any more questions? [mad]
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