After staying up past midnight last night between doing chemistry and cleaning the kitchen at my apartment, I decided to sleep in a bit this morning. With no school related obligations until 1:00 I thought I’d venture onto the ice whenever I managed to roll out of bed. I made it to Lake Winona a little after 10:30 and put the auger to work right away, drilling out a pattern of holes on a familiar hump that I’ve been working the last couple of weeks. The first hole I fished produced a bunch of marks, with one keeper gill coming up quick. I got tired of sorting through dinks pretty quickly and began to bounce around, which led me to figure something out that’s going to change the way I fish out there. After icing a keeper perch and a few smaller ones, I grabbed for the auger again, drilling further up the flat of the hump with the idea that these perch have been roaming the top during the morning hours and sliding off the sides during mid day. What I hypothesized was backed up with a nice bucket of 5 perch and 2 gills in a brief hour and a half outing. The key was holding the bait at 5-6 feet over 11 feet of water. There were hoards of smaller bluegills relating to the bottom 2-4 feet, but with some extreme (and I mean extreme to the point of ridiculousness) jigging of a frostee 1/16 oz spoon with nothing on it, mark after mark would blast in from no-where just below my bait and proceed to crush it. Though i didn’t catch any hogs (biggest was about an 11″ male), it was still a very fun outing given the length, and it was nice to get some more bounty for the fish fry people are relying on my to put on this coming Sunday 
The question is, when I’m done here at the library… Should I go back out? 
-Cade
