Polk Co WI report

Hi all,
Was up on one of the Polk Co. lakes this morning, looks like a good 10-11 inches of clear blue ice under ~ an inch of crusty snow. Evidence of wheelers and snowmobiles. Was also a hard sided perm on it already, somebody pulled it out with a truck, Yikes! That’s gutsy.
The early morning bite was OK. Marked lots of fish close to the bottom, started off using a Slender Spoon and minnow head, lots of lookers and only light bites. Switched to a VMC Tungsten Fly, off white color and 1 waxie, game on! The smaller gills would take it pretty aggressively, but the bigger ones were very tricky to detect. A spring bobber would have helped. I tried other presentations and it was back to looking. Dropped the tungsten fly back down and back in business.
I would assume most of you have seen this before? When they have a preference for a certain type of lure. In this case I would deduce they were keying in on small bugs that looked like that.

All in all, a good morning. Gills and potatoes for supper!
Don

Jealous. Tried new water yesterday with limited shorty results. Intended to go out this morning but other issues got in the way. I’ll live vicariously through the reports here.

You guys be careful, the bigger lakes didn’t freeze until late, and a couple of them reopened in the center and re-froze, that and the geese kept the deep water open. I seen 4 trucks on a lake close to me and thought “are you all nuts?” always love it when the ice justs get thick enough to drive on and some idiot drives right up next to your truck and asks ‘ how thick is the ice?”