We spent the better portion of the weekend fishing the croix. We got a late start on Friday but were set up by 5:00 off Anderson pt in 27 fow. We had lots of lookers but no takers.
On Saturday we were back on the ice by 0730. We set up west of shantytown in 30 fow. Same results, lots of lookers. We made a move around 10:30 and headed south. We set up in 31 fow and managed to ice one 11″ crappie, with tons of lookers to go along with it.
Sunday we decided to go south again. We set up in 25 fow and my FL-18 was marking fish from 3-12′ off the bottom. We ended up catching 15 crappies and 2 saugers. Most the crappies were of the smaller veriety 8″ (returned to grow bigger). We did lose one nice slab in the hole and two other keeper size fish on our walleye sets.
We were getting the crappies anywhere from 3-12′ off the bottom on gold tripped with a crappie minnow. One thing to note, a few of our nicer crappies came on our walleye sets closer to the bottom on frosty’s and buckshot spoons with larger fatheads.
I had 17″ of ice in the areas I fished. I hope to get my perm out this week and hunker in it over this coming weekend. Sorry no pics from this past weekend, hope to have some in my next report.