Perch fishing/Silver lake Worth co IA

I awoke sat AM with the hopes of going ice fishing and The only thing that stood in my way were 30mi an hr winds. After pouting for awile I decided I might as well go check out the area ice situation. My first stop was the Lake Sport Shop and I talked to owner Jeff Hicks and he said the lake had 4in on most spots but be CAREFUL. Are conversation soon led to other area lakes and perch fishing in our conversation we both agreeded that there would be spots out of the wind. So with a few minnows and waxies I was off

My first stop was Rice Lake and even though I didn,t catch a fish I was happy with the 4 in ice. I was only a few miles from silver lake so I decided to give it a look when I arrived I was not alone as there were a few shacks on the north shore out of the wind

I walked out to the area being fished and drilled a hole a respectful distance from a angler that had a couple 9 in perch on the ice.I started out by using a kastmaster tipped with a waxie with 2 fish to my efforts. A fellow angler stopped on his way off the ice to show me a nice limit of 25 perch and he offered some tips. I soon swithed to a buckshot rattle jig and minnow head and that was the ticket. They wanted my yellow and orange jig to be aggresively jigged. I was soon on the way to my own limit of perch when mother nature took over the wind picked up and cloud cover set in. The fish did not want the weather change as they shut right off. By the time I reached the truck the temps had dropped 15 degrees and I was numb. E ven though I left the ice with 9 perch they were worthy of a fillet knife and a spot next to some fried tators and corn bread

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