blue perch and a few other friends and i made the road trip to petenwell sat am got there bout 730 gps with lake chip saves tons of time searching for a spot the channel wasnt hard to locate just look for the long line of fishermen but the spot on the spot was what we were after 20 foot hump with 30 foot on all sides put the tips ups on the hump jigged in the deep didnt take long to get 1st flag but no one home set up the shacks and went to work i struck 1st and often with slab crappies coming thru in the 20 foot range and bull rushing and thumping my flyer spoon with a medium fathead (whole) then the crew joined in on the new target species was pretty good bite all day we were able to get 1 legal walleye 16.5 inches thru back 4 shorts 2 catfish 1 for myself what a blast on a jig pole and a larger cat for blue perch his highlight of the day. i snuck in a white bass walleye crappie and catfish to take the multi-species award blue perch got the big catfish and big crappie (a 14 inch slob) ended with 42 crappies only 1 throw back but since blue perch forgot the grill luckily i still had the camp stove in the truck but nothing except an ice scooper to cook the brats on 
but they turned out just fine flyer spoon was best for my but the others had there best luck with a deadstick minnow under a slip bobber other than a little windy a very nice day on the ice and a fish fry for our efforts 
February 1, 2009 at 2:56 am
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