Well, decided since I fly out of town tomorrow for the week (going to Lynchburg, VA… no ice there from what I understand), I would get on a local lake for a couple hours.
I have never fished this lake before, but always seen a handful of houses out there through-out the winter. I decided to give it a shot. From my understanding, the lake has decent Northern, Sunnies and Crappies. So that is what I set up for. I set up a tip-up in about 8 FOW and dropped a small sucker. I had talked to someone earlier in the day who said the Northern were just not biting. So, a small presentation is what I gave them. Unfortunately, no takers on the tip-up today.
In the house, I used my st croix legend with a genz work tipped with a waxie. As soon as I dropped it in the water… the Marcum lit up like a christmas tree. And that right there explains about the whole couple of hours. I pulled in about 50 or so sunnies… all but 1 were what I would consider “bait”. Like I said… I did manage 1 that wasn’t too bad… but considering the size of the fish I was pulling, I figured it would take days to put together a meal. So back in the hole it went.
I did manage to pull in one token Large-mouth carp (bass). Not too bad, measured about 12 inces or so. I am not much into eating rough fish, so back down the hole she went. For the 3 hours or so I was there, lots of action… but the excitment wears off quickly when you are just unhooking bait.
Ice Conditions: improving but still spotty. ice was anywhere between 4 inches solid with 5 inches slush ice to 8 inches of SOLID ice where there is no snow-pack.
Good Fishing!
