Spent upwards of 4 1/2 hours on the ice over at the Green this morning. Pre-dawn crappie bite wasn’t there this morning – all though I spoke to a fellow hole hopper who indicated a few black specs were pulled through the ice early yesterday morning. Did witness a few crappie carted to the ice – a real nice one by fellow IDO’er JDWelder…As for the Bos, the #10 Firetiger Diamond caught the eye of more than one gill. Nothing like the sight of a yellow-belly doing the “helicopter dance” under the ice as he’s funnelled up to hole! Did pick up one short perch for what it’s worth. Brought a baker’s dozen of gills home for the liking. Tossed back countless bait size gills. Biggest was 8 1/2 inches. Majority were in the 7 & 1/2 to 7 3/4 range. No herd bulls, that’s for sure. Bite was your typical hardwater pattern. Fast & furious for 10 minutes followed by a 30 minute lull. And NO folks – when a Burlington Northern rumbles by – that’s not the super secret code for fish to start biting nor stop biting! I hear that comment nearly every time I’m on the hardwater.
As for the ice conditions – a solid 2″ up near the landing but it dwindled down to MAYBE an 1.5″ where I called home.
Few pics for your viewing pleasure. Sorry Dan – wanted to get one of you in action – but you moved too quick!