Fish lake 3/15

[stan55]

Got on the deck a little after 9 am. Easy access. We played with the perch and rainbows and splake all day. I found a hot hole in 17ft and just stayed on it. My tally was 21 rainbows, 2 splake and who knows how many perch. Our group of 5 easily caught 40 rainbows and few of them would rival Starvy steelheads. Some the group went out to 60/70ft depths to try for lakers but just found more rainbows and splake. Vertical jigs like kastmasters were the way to go for me but one of group had great success with paddlebugs. No preference was noted between tipping with mealworms or crawlers. Cut bait attracted nothing. Best colors were silver, pink and orange.

When we left around 3 pm the lake had a couple of inches of surface water and edges were also a lot softer. If this weather pattern continues the ice won't be fishable by the end of the month.[:/]
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[wiperhunter2]

Thanks for posting your report Stan, sounds like a fun day was had by all. Any perch over 9 inches?
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[stan55]

3 over 9" about a dozen at 8" Hard to beat that last perching trip on Starvation for size but numbers on Fish were great Very few under 6"
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[Hookinup]

We were up on Friday as well. We had 2 snow machines that took us across to the far side of the lake. We had four in our party. We performed our civic duty and kept 4 limits of perch, and a few trout.
This was the first time up there that I have spent a lot of time trying to catch macs. I spent most of the afternoon in 85 ft of water fishing the bottom with my Marcum. I caught probably a dozen pups. All of mine that I caught seem to be about the same size. 20" or so. They fought good. Caught a couple splake at that depth too. I don't know macs well. I know there are larger ones in there, I just have to find where they hang out.
I hope to get down another time at least this year. If any of you Mac guys would like an" apprentice mac fisherman" to help with gas money to get there, let me know, or PM me.[]
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