Jigglesticks Feb Winnie report

Tuesday, February 3rd 2009

me n goose went out to our secret spot and pounded the walleyes, just like we do early ice.
caught 14 or fifteen eyes and about a half dozen hog perch in two hours. we set up at 4:45 and had the first walleye on the ice at 5:05.
no pics though. my camera is broken and I cant afford a new one. gonna have to use my wifes camera I spose.
the biggest was 20 inches and we had a few dinks. most eaters went from 13 inches to 16 inches.
goose caught a bunch on buckshots with minnowfaces and I caught most of mine on the gamaktsu favorites in glow.

felt good to smoke em again!

Saturday February 7th 2009

we made it to the promised land!

as of 7:00 p.m. last night there is a road now out to the big island area. it does not go quite to ravens point. there is a big crack that popped last night that cuts us off from it right now. it is supposed to cool down the end of the week so it should tighten up enough to cross it somewhere.

off road travel is still tough. hard to chisel through with the v plows even, but were getting it done.
saw a fellow and his wife stuck in a snowbank today and she was shoveling.
he had a big boss plow on and figured he’d blaze a trail where ever he wanted.
turns out he had a broken foot and that’s why she was shoveling.
I hooked the rope to him and a quick tug had him back on dry ground. twenty minutes and twenty bucks later, he had his truck and hard house 1/4 mile off the road to a nice piece of structure. I’ll check with him in the morning to see how he did.

the rentals are doing very nice for eater sized fish with even a 23 1/2 in for pictures.

I love it when things come together.

Monday February 16th
only seven more days to fish for walleyes on inland waters!
holy smokes did that sneak up on us fast!

the big thaw we had did not take the snow from Winnie yet. it has refrozen and is very hard.
the cross country travel is pretty easy now by any means of transportation.
the walleye bite has been from good to stingy.
some houses are doing well at 8 at night and some in the morning.
some not so hot and others plenty for a fish fry on the ice.
most of you know I don’t like them pesky perch but I have to say, this past week there have been some absolute monsters perch coming up.
the numbers are good and the daytime action is good to great!

we are finding the perch right where we have been setting up for the evening walleye bite. on the humps, doesn’t really matter which one. just pick a hump and find 20 feet of water. chubs have been working well for them. perch colored hooks and plain hooks too.
this is it for the walleyes so come on up!