I got a hot tip a week ago about a local lake having a hot bite on perch and walleye. I decided to give it a try. I first went up on March 2. I drove up to a young man fishing in the general area of a lot of other people. I had never fished this lake before so I did not know anything about it. I asked him if he had been catching any perch and how deep was the water. He said the WHOLE area was only 4-6 feet deep and he had only caught a few perch because the bass kept hammering him. HMMMMM bass hammering???? I was not sure what to think about his comment as I had not heard of many people catching bass through the ice. I drilled a few holes and checked them out with the Marcum. Yep – 5′. With such a small cone angle at that depth, I just fish the holes and see what happens. Third hole, drop down my little perch jig and WHAM!! I catch a 13″ bass and my little ultra lite pan fish pole is bent in half. I release the fish and drop down and catch another, this one a bit bigger. Time to switch to a stronger pole and line, so I grab my walleye pole that I have not used all year. I put on a bigger flutter spoon and move from hole to hole and catch a few more bass. I decide to try my #5 Rippin Rap. That was the ticket. You can’t do much Ripping in 4′ of water, but that lure produced 15 more bass. The biggest measured 15.5″. What a great day.
I went back on last Friday and tried again. I did not have a much luck as I was having a hard time locating the little patch of weeds I was in last week. Still managed to catch a few. I DID loose my Rippin Rap to something really big. Not sure if a toothy critter got me or what. Finally found the weeds and for the next hour I caught nice gils, two perch, and LOTS of bass. So much fun to catch them through the ice.
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