02-25-2015, 01:50 PM
The bigger fish came out to play yesterday! I left my small rapalas in the tackle box because I didn't want to be unhooking 12" bows all day. The 6' magnum rapala did the trick! Still caught a handful of 14 inchers but bigger bait equaled bigger fish! Probably caught 12 fish total, would have been a whole lot more if I wanted to mess around with the dinks...
One sheet of ice about the size of a football field had blown into the middle of the lake, but by the time I had left it had blown onshore and melted. The lake is 100% ice free! The little boat ramp is in the water and ready to go.
Was pretty windy, but the fish didn't mind, most were caught at 1.8-2mph, 30 down on the rigger. Water temp was 42 deg. The bows have been eating good too! I'm pretty sure they were full of crappie minnows, but some people are insisting they are wiper minnows. The markings are vertical unlike wiper, and I think the wiper they put in EC would be 3" or so by now. All these minnows in the bellies were 1.5 - 2".
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One sheet of ice about the size of a football field had blown into the middle of the lake, but by the time I had left it had blown onshore and melted. The lake is 100% ice free! The little boat ramp is in the water and ready to go.
Was pretty windy, but the fish didn't mind, most were caught at 1.8-2mph, 30 down on the rigger. Water temp was 42 deg. The bows have been eating good too! I'm pretty sure they were full of crappie minnows, but some people are insisting they are wiper minnows. The markings are vertical unlike wiper, and I think the wiper they put in EC would be 3" or so by now. All these minnows in the bellies were 1.5 - 2".
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