(02-01-2025, 04:21 AM)MWScott72 Wrote: Ok - now that I have your attention, it was anything but…

Showed up at 7:30. Lines in the water off the new campground by 7:45 in 28 feet of water.  Started right in between the furthest out buoys.  No bites or marks for the first hour.  Drilled 5 or 6 holes in the vicinity of my first two holes and nothing.  Decided to move closer to shore, so went to the closest buoy and drilled a couple new holes.  BOOM!  Must have dropped on a school, because I iced 10 fish in about as many minutes.  Still good size too - most 9” with several over 10”.  This action died off fairly fast at about 9:15 and then it was one here and one there for the next 2.5 hours.  Near the end, I just started drilling random holes in the vicinity.  Had about a 50% hit rate.  Drill hole, drop, catch the resident perch within that 5’ radius and then it would go dead.  Ended the day at 12:15 with 15 keepers.  Only threw back 2 and all kept were at least 8” with the average being 9”.  Best combo was a chartreuse and yellow Halie with a white backside tipped with perch eye.  They liked waxies too.  All fish were tight to the bottom.

It was nice to meet Dubob on the ice.  He was gunning for 10 fish and had 7 when I left.  Hope he reached his goal.  Also spoke to Perchinski who was fishing near the old SP ramp somewhere.  Sounded like his morning went similar, but I’ll let him chime in on details, if he so chooses.

(02-01-2025, 05:40 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

(02-01-2025, 04:21 AM)MWScott72 Wrote: Ok - now that I have your attention, it was anything but…

Showed up at 7:30. Lines in the water off the new campground by 7:45 in 28 feet of water.  Started right in between the furthest out buoys.  No bites or marks for the first hour.  Drilled 5 or 6 holes in the vicinity of my first two holes and nothing.  Decided to move closer to shore, so went to the closest buoy and drilled a couple new holes.  BOOM!  Must have dropped on a school, because I iced 10 fish in about as many minutes.  Still good size too - most 9” with several over 10”.  This action died off fairly fast at about 9:15 and then it was one here and one there for the next 2.5 hours.  Near the end, I just started drilling random holes in the vicinity.  Had about a 50% hit rate.  Drill hole, drop, catch the resident perch within that 5’ radius and then it would go dead.  Ended the day at 12:15 with 15 keepers.  Only threw back 2 and all kept were at least 8” with the average being 9”.  Best combo was a chartreuse and yellow Halie with a white backside tipped with perch eye.  They liked waxies too.  All fish were tight to the bottom.

It was nice to meet Dubob on the ice.  He was gunning for 10 fish and had 7 when I left.  Hope he reached his goal.  Also spoke to Perchinski who was fishing near the old SP ramp somewhere.  Sounded like his morning went similar, but I’ll let him chime in on details, if he so chooses.

Glad you found few, did you fish for the rainbows at all?

Nice to meet you as well.  Thanks for allowing me to join you in that location.  I was going to quit at 2:00 regardless.  I caught #10 right at 2:00.  Nice way to finish my season.