Made it out on Pepin yesterday to try for some sauger and walleye action. Fished the area around Frontenac and found fish, but they were on the small side.
I had the underwater camera down and it amazes me the amount of walleye and sauger that will come near the bait. I don’t know how many fish would swim by and not have the slightest interest in the bait regardless of bait or technique. I did watch some that would come up to the bait and a couple that would nose the bait and leave 
Days like this leave a guy wondering if a camera is worth having. It was entertaining to watch, but could make a guy sick watching large walleyes swim by and not even take a look at your offering.
We did manage to catch some sauger regardless of the tough bite. We found them in 23 fow and the key was to have a small profile jig tipped with just the head. I found that if you could work them up about a foot, stop, work them up another foot, stop, and sometimes repeating until they were up 3-5 feet of the bottom and then hold the bait still you could hook up with a percentage of them.
The fish in the pics were caught on vertiglo jigs red, grn and blue tipped with the head from a fathead minnow. I tried numberous other combinations of jigs and bait and could not get any takers.
Spent the whole day on the ice and managed to catch about seven sauger and only one keeper size. All fish were returned to fight another day
