Took the kids out for a bit of ice fishing on Sunday. Caught a number of nice 9-10″ gills and some decent crappies. Here’s my son Andrew with a nice 13″ slab.
The 2nd picture is my daughter Sam with a nice 12″ slab. Sure is great to see the smiles on their faces.
What techniques did you catch them on Steve? Fishin smiles on childrens faces are always great to see.
Thanks, Bill
Wax worms on a tear drop for the gills, swedish pimple (blue/chrome) with a waxy for the crappies. My daughter was using the LX-3 and boy did she get the hang of it real fast. She would catch a gill close to bottom and then notice that there were fish up a ways in the water column and she would raise her jig right up to them and catch another one. She’s a keeper.
Zamer, do you ever get down to Badger Creek? That used to be my favorite lake, but the pressure started to get pretty bad before I left. I still have lots of good spots if you are looking for huge gills.
Nice report!
I haven’t been to Badger for a number of years for the hard water fishing but have been out on the open water. I used to concentrate on the road bed (midlake) and one of the points on the northwest end. Send me a PM with your hot spots and I’ll go give them a try. By the way, my daughter was fascinated by the Lx-3. She is pretty darn good at using it also.