Fished the Madison Chain this weekend!

I was able to get out this past weekend for some ice fishing out on the chain. The temps were far from perfect, but the company was great. I was able to spend the weekend with my cousin from the area and we targeted perch for two days.

On Saturday, we were fishing perch in 27 feet of water and also decided to through some tipups out to try to pich up a stray walleye or two. Well in place of the walleyes, we ended up catching 4 northerns and lost two others. Truely not expected in that deep of water next to the bottom, I know they follow the forage, but have never caughtthem that deep, rather fun. We also ended up catching/keeping about 15 nice perch for the pan.

We headed out again on Sunday, but the results were not nearly as good We ended up catching only seven perch on the second day, but they were bigger than the ones caught on Saturday. Give and take I guess. Sorry, no pictures, didn’t take the camera out on the frozen tundra

Bassman

Thanks bassman,how big were the pike? Any activity with the gills?

Bassman, were you on Waubesa?

gills are goin on weedlines in Monona

We were out on Kegonsa. We decided not to go to Wabesa this time due to the mixed reports we were getting on the action. The Pike were about 26″ I would say, but extremely fat. They are feeding heavy right now and getting ready for the spawn.

Darin

perch have been tough on the Keg for the last couple years for some reason…see alot on the cam, but not too willing to bite. I’ve been fishing waubesa more and doing pretty good on the perch although the size seems to run smaller on average but there are some really nice ones mixed in…