1/20/18 report.

Made it out today for about 5-6 hours. Fished from 830-2ish. I did bring a limit home but the bite was not hot and heavy by any means. Every fish I caught was on minnows and came after 11. Often I was spot locked just jigging and here and there I would crawl around at .2-.3 and that would trigger a bite. The fish were deep. I got mine in 25-35 feet of water. Found a 35′ hole near the first wingdam and marked a bunch of fish in it. I usually don’t fish this deep but thankfully every fish I got deep was big enough to keep.

Talking to a few people sounds like the bite has been slower during the day but the night bite has been good.

Thanks for the report black TA. Assuming this is pool 4?

Nice.

My youngest started yakkin right before I was about to drop her off at the in-laws yesterday and shoot down with couple guys. Needless to say plans changed.

Monday is scheduled to be down there.

Out of Everts. On the water today about those same times. First open water trip of the year! Two guys, 17 on the clicker. Six keepers. About 6-7 of those fish were smallies. Jig/minnow and jig/ring worm. Nice day to be out. The itch got scratched.

-J.

Nice report’s!

How’s the water clarity?

basseyes wrote:

How’s the water clarity?

Running clean. Probably 3+ foot clarity. Not much floating ice.

-J.

nhamm wrote:

Monday is scheduled to be down there.

Monday weather for Red Wing:

MondaySnow. The snow could be heavy at times. Patchy blowing snow between 9am and 10am. High near 34. Breezy, with a northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches possible.

Caught a nice bunch of fish today including this 20″ sauger and these jumbo perch.

Jon Jordan wrote:

Out of Everts. On the water today about those same times. First open water trip of the year! Two guys, 17 on the clicker. Six keepers. About 6-7 of those fish were smallies. Jig/minnow and jig/ring worm. Nice day to be out. The itch got scratched.

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-J.

Ha I talked to you at the dock. I commented about our IDO hoodies

Good to meet you.

-J.

Who’s going to be out this weekend? I plan to give it a go Saturday. I have a few patterns that were successful in December that I’ll probably start with but just looking forward to getting on the water because ice fishing sucks.

I’ll be in a white Lund with a talon and 90hp Johnson so say hello if you see me.

Would love to be out there today! 47 degrees, sunny, no wind….. Grrr.

-J.

If there was ever a night to go night fishing in the boat in January….tonight is your night! Mild Wind, above freezing overnight temps, and its a weekend!!!!

Jon Jordan wrote:

Would love to be out there today! 47 degrees, sunny, no wind….. Grrr.

-J.

You realize it’s been windy all day and is still blowing 12 right now?

crawdaddy wrote:

You realize it’s been windy all day and is still blowing 12 right now?

You realize they’re talking Red Wing?

pool2fool wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>crawdaddy wrote:</div>
You realize it’s been windy all day and is still blowing 12 right now?

You realize they’re talking Red Wing?

Yup. And you need a new weather ap because it was blowing a lot more than 2mph in red wing.

I’ll take your word for it my friend.