12-28-2004, 03:57 AM
Started out just off of a little reed island on the north end of the lake that everyone fishes and I've had great success. Only caught one gill in an hour so I moved to the south end of the lake. Not a single hole had been drilled anywhere that I could see on that end. Right off of the bat I started pulling in 10 - 13 inch largemouth bass. Nothing but bass for an hour then the gills moved in. Almost everyone was between 9 and 9 1/2 inches and fat. Monday a friend from work drove out and met me. We started out about 8:30 and the action was hot until 11:30 then really slowed. We still were graphing a few fish, but they got really picky about what they were eating. Both days ended with 20 + gills and 6 to 10 bass and managed to fish myself out of the 40 or 50 mealies I took with me. Pretty good in anyones book, even though there were some slow spots both days. Monday I caught 2 gill that were only 1/8" inch shy of 11 inches, truely a couple of HOGS. Both days it seems early on they liked a little movement and small kastmasters were the ticket. As the day progressed and the fish slowed went to genz worms and ratfinks with a deadstick presentation. Fish would look at it for 30 seconds to a minute before they would bite.
I did get to see something that I had never seen before. I watched someone drop a four wheeler through the ice. When we got out on monday I was surprised to even see one on the ice because there was less than 4 inches of good ice, thin enough that my 250 lb frame could make it pop if I stepped on a crack right. Everything I saw was from four or five hundred yards and I got the story second handed, but apparently some kid was screwing around doing donuts and what not and saw some ducks and geese on the other side of the lake and took off to go chase them at full speed. By the time he had gotten close enough to realize that the geese had kept some open water in the middle it was too late and had no traction on the snowfree ice to turn, stop, or even kiss his butt goodbye. I realized something was up when everyone in the group started running across the lake. I guess the guy spent a few good minutes in the water and then had close to a half or three quarters of a mile walk across the lake to the pickup. With the binoculars you could just see the back of the four wheeler sticking up out of 4' of water. It was still there when I left and I've got a pretty good idea with how fast the water is rising there that it will still be there next spring.
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I did get to see something that I had never seen before. I watched someone drop a four wheeler through the ice. When we got out on monday I was surprised to even see one on the ice because there was less than 4 inches of good ice, thin enough that my 250 lb frame could make it pop if I stepped on a crack right. Everything I saw was from four or five hundred yards and I got the story second handed, but apparently some kid was screwing around doing donuts and what not and saw some ducks and geese on the other side of the lake and took off to go chase them at full speed. By the time he had gotten close enough to realize that the geese had kept some open water in the middle it was too late and had no traction on the snowfree ice to turn, stop, or even kiss his butt goodbye. I realized something was up when everyone in the group started running across the lake. I guess the guy spent a few good minutes in the water and then had close to a half or three quarters of a mile walk across the lake to the pickup. With the binoculars you could just see the back of the four wheeler sticking up out of 4' of water. It was still there when I left and I've got a pretty good idea with how fast the water is rising there that it will still be there next spring.
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