02-22-2007, 08:33 PM
Fished yesterday,was worried after seeing LH2's 16 ft ladder ice boarding system but wanted one more day and i'm super glad i did.
Getting on the ice was cake from the marina, some good sole installed a ramp on the west side of the boat ramp and my 250lbs fame and sled accessed the ice with no worries. The ice was covered with an inch of hard snow so walking and pulling a heavy sled was easy, fished the second point east up the first arm, in 34' of water and had fish from 20-25 ft every 10-15 min. The marks were bigger and caugth 17 between 12-16 inchs, two footballs at [url "mailto:18@19"]18@19[/url] and two that had to be bigger but broke me off at the hole. Orange ice cutr with orange glow jig head with waxie,small ball of rainbow power bait on the barb with a touch of crawdad scent was the only thing that worked, any thing else more or less would only draw a look and the slimers would look and leave. The bite was light and you had to get them before they took the power bait but the biggest fish from e/c this year for me and few of the planters. the ice in still rock solid at 14+ and the snow covering got a tad slushy when i left at 3pm, wouldn't try it any where else and stay away from the edges but access was good from the marina on 2/21. would of posted pics but we just had a new grandaughter and my wife took the dig cam out of my sled which was ok, because she's way cute.
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Getting on the ice was cake from the marina, some good sole installed a ramp on the west side of the boat ramp and my 250lbs fame and sled accessed the ice with no worries. The ice was covered with an inch of hard snow so walking and pulling a heavy sled was easy, fished the second point east up the first arm, in 34' of water and had fish from 20-25 ft every 10-15 min. The marks were bigger and caugth 17 between 12-16 inchs, two footballs at [url "mailto:18@19"]18@19[/url] and two that had to be bigger but broke me off at the hole. Orange ice cutr with orange glow jig head with waxie,small ball of rainbow power bait on the barb with a touch of crawdad scent was the only thing that worked, any thing else more or less would only draw a look and the slimers would look and leave. The bite was light and you had to get them before they took the power bait but the biggest fish from e/c this year for me and few of the planters. the ice in still rock solid at 14+ and the snow covering got a tad slushy when i left at 3pm, wouldn't try it any where else and stay away from the edges but access was good from the marina on 2/21. would of posted pics but we just had a new grandaughter and my wife took the dig cam out of my sled which was ok, because she's way cute.
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