12-14-2020, 05:31 PM
"I put 10 on the ice in about 1/2 hour. It wasn't fast, but it was steady."
Three per minute sounds fast to me!
We were there as well, did almost the same thing. I ad never accessed from the west side and the shallower water and min-beaches with sand had ice on that side thinned down, so we tried again from the south dike.
We went out about 300 yards to where everybody else had stopped, fished 8 feet of water for a while, caught some trout, including an almost 18" bow, and a 4" perch. Ice was over 5".
Went out another 100 yards, ice was more like 4.5, and only a little action. Then my brother made a bigger move, about 200 yards north as if heading west of the Point, and immediately caught a nice bluegill in 14' depth. There was a large open, or at least dark, patch we skirted way around, and by that time he was farther "out" than most people, and some a gone home.
But, the ice was still a bit over 4", so we drilled and dropped. Picked up a few here and there, drilled a little more. My brother left with that one gill. Overall, it was slow, with a an hour here and an hour there faster. I fished about 9 hours, and caught 20 or so, putting some back, while Bblake98 did about the same, or slightly better. Together, 32 keeper gills, four 9" perch. Called it a day just after sundown.
Three per minute sounds fast to me!
We were there as well, did almost the same thing. I ad never accessed from the west side and the shallower water and min-beaches with sand had ice on that side thinned down, so we tried again from the south dike.
We went out about 300 yards to where everybody else had stopped, fished 8 feet of water for a while, caught some trout, including an almost 18" bow, and a 4" perch. Ice was over 5".
Went out another 100 yards, ice was more like 4.5, and only a little action. Then my brother made a bigger move, about 200 yards north as if heading west of the Point, and immediately caught a nice bluegill in 14' depth. There was a large open, or at least dark, patch we skirted way around, and by that time he was farther "out" than most people, and some a gone home.
But, the ice was still a bit over 4", so we drilled and dropped. Picked up a few here and there, drilled a little more. My brother left with that one gill. Overall, it was slow, with a an hour here and an hour there faster. I fished about 9 hours, and caught 20 or so, putting some back, while Bblake98 did about the same, or slightly better. Together, 32 keeper gills, four 9" perch. Called it a day just after sundown.