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went to starvation yesterday with a few friends to rap up the ice season. Ice was soft getting on and needed a plank to stay dry.
found some perch and a few small eyes and 1 or 2 trout. fished in 39 FOW with lindy bugs and rat finkees.
I think ice might be getting done there cause coming off we all practicly broke through to our knees atleast. wet but it was great weather out there, and maybe a little too warm for ice fishing[:p].
BRing on the soft water.
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Was a good end to a great year JP. Nice to stick some and have something to look forward to next year. Later FD
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ah ya for sure man, i think we had a good perchin year for sure. ended the season on a dink walleye. i think you were doing more of the sticking yesterday, hows your arm feel[:p].
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You know that place has always left me Starving! Glad to see you got some fish as well as the eye's on ice. Still working on that one!
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where were you at? I want to go to Rabbit Gulch tomorrow?
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I think the small walleye that you kept was the one I caught in the fall ha ha ha well great job up there. I'm hoping for some fun ice off float tubing time soon maybe catch some big perch on my fly rod over there this spring.
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Finally. Ice BE GONE!!
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How big were the eyes? Thanks for the report and pics.
TopH20, Wyoguy, hookngrinin and I were there yesterday but fished over by Indian bay. We did not have any problem getting off the ice a little after 2pm but the catching was slow. TopH20 and his friend stayed later than the rest of us but when we left I don't think the total perch count was over 12 with 4 or 5 trout thrown in for good measure. Maybe Mike will tell me that they slayed them after we left but the wind was such a problem, I'm not sure if they did any better, if the wind did not quit[:/].
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I think it's time to put my ice fishing gear away as well, I can hear the turkey over in that area calling my name already, only a few weeks away. I may have to head back up to C.J. for a 2nd round of big perch, only this time with the old boat in tow.[fishin]
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It really didn't pick up much in the afternoon. We stayed until 6:00 p.m. and we got some more perch but the total was only about 20 for the party. Ice was still OK getting off and we didn't need the plank.
I might head over this afternoon for one more try before bagging it for this season.
Mike
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one was around 14 inches and the other 11 1/2. small but still cool to get my first one out of the ice there. schools were 15 feet thick when they came through
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Congrats on the eyes, sounds like you were seeing a lot more of the perch than we were.
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