Great First Day on the Ice!

Managed to find some fishable ice in southern WI today, 3+ inches of good clear ice. Started out strong using a shrimpo with either a blue tail or a bubblegum trigger x tail. Had 15 nice gills and 1 crappie on the ice in 2.5hrs, then it was the dead sea……. Marked only 4 more fish in the next 1.5hrs between all the holes I drilled and decided to pack it up. Walking back in, I decided to see if I could mark any fish with the LX6 thru the ice as there was now an inch of water on the ice (warmed up to 45F). Started marking fish right away thru the ice so I popped a few new holes and finished out my limit.

Its been 25yrs since I have been able to get on the ice this early in the season, normally still chasing walleyes and saugers on Lake WI yet, but that locked up last weekend. Guess I’m OK with that after an early ice limit of panfish

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That pile of gills is making my mouth water they look so good! That’s a great tip about Using your Marcum to shoot through the ice to save time and energy from cutting extra holes.

The ice was very clear, hardly any air bubbles so I figured the ice would slow down the signal from the transducer so the depth may be a little off, but any marks of fish would still shown up above the bottom. I don’t think this would work without any water on the ice as there would be a small air gap between the transducer and the ice then

The water does really help to seal up the transducer tight to the ice. I know of guys who have actually taken a torch to the ice to melt a little to cause the transducer to seal up well and shoot through the ice.

We got 8+ inches of ice in south central nd pulled the hat trick and got perch walleye and northern today and ditto on that water trick used it with my lx9 and it landed us a 10lb pike not bad for the small lake we where on first hole we drilled on the 2nd lake and my lx9 lite up like a Christmas tree with perch

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Nice fish guys!

Awesome job finding and landing some great fish!