20160123-WIXOM LAKE ~RECON OUTING

20160123-For the past 5 years I have lived just a short walk from the reservoir known as Wixom Lake…. A 90 year old reservoir holding a great population of fish species at above avg size. It’s a better SMB/Crappie lake than a LMB/B’Gill lake due to its bottom composition and current. Since ive moved up here ive only seen one ice fisherman in this area of the lake and very little open water fishing pressure. This one ice fisherman puts out 3 tip ups out and does well on the N’Pike.
Today I decided to solve some actual on the water curiosity fishing on the ice. My strategy was simple… start out fishing the deeper weed edge near the creek channel and test the creek channel itself in some of the deeper areas.
The locals started sifting out of the background and approached me for conversation. I love it. A great way to recon some info is to talk with the locals living on the lake. As it seems the fishing particularly ice has never been good for ice fishing in this area of the lake as I suspected. Just tip ups and pike as a rule.
Using a tiny tungsten jig tipped with a live waxie I started hitting some aggressive Y’Perch straight away up to 9” with the majority of them under 6. After a short period I decided to move to look for larger targets or stumble upon a school of crappie. The two creek channel spots did produce some sniffers detected on the sonar but nothing else.
I look back at the outing and it did solve some curiosities but not completely. I had just about an hour of actual fishing time to do this recon and some areas still need to be explored. The soft bottom shallow flat areas. B’Gill love the soft bottom and vegetation.
Also the day was wrapped in a cold front condition… always a negative when fishing for me.
Tomorrow promises better weather.