First time on ice this year

We made plans to go to one particular lake then decided to try a lake we always had good luck on.  We were after crappie.  They weren't in a biting mood.  A buddy of mine caught and ended up releasing 4.  Oh well, fun getting out anyhow.

Bill

Yeah went last Thursday to the lake we were going to try in January.  One tiny Perch for me.  Had a couple Northern Pike come in to look a the Aqua-vu camera and look at everyones bait.  Friend of mine caught one of the Pike.  It weighed a couple of pounds, nothing big.  We were targeting Crappie & Walleye, they never showed up.

I want to try another lake either this Thursday or Friday for big Crappie & big Bluegill.

Bill


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My boy and I are going out today to a pond very near town. Its not known for big fish but some times you can pick up walleye and trout out of the same hole.

Went fishing Monday.  Tried a lake I've never ice fished before.  Looked at lake map before going.  Something didn't look right to me on the lake.  I had a feeling we were on the main lake and not in the bay we set out to fish.  Looked at map again when we got home.  Turned out the road we took had the main lake on our right (where we went) and what we thought was a river flowage on our left turned out to be the bay we intended to fish.  We caught nothing in the main lake, and haven't gone back yet to try the bay.  Maybe hit the bay Thursday.

40 degrees today with no wind.  Went ice fishing on our old standby lake and got sun burnt, actually started sweating.  And caught 7 crappies.  It was really nice out there.  But my face is burning.

Bill