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Ice Fishing (1-17-15)
Could only squeeze in a midday trip. Bites were good, but spaced out. Probably the best quality day on this lake we've had for gills. BFOD was close to 9", average fish caught was about 8". The place doesn't hold much for crappies as far as size, but my dad likes them so he's not afraid to keep them. We left around 3pm, about an hour later our one friend started getting more bites. He ended up keeping a dozen fish about the size of these, and releasing many more.
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Comment by Adam Rink on January 24, 2015 at 2:27pm
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Thanks Jim, I was really happy to get out again before this little warm up we had made the ice unsafe.
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Comment by Jim Gronaw on January 22, 2015 at 6:21pm
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Very nice. Adam! If I'm catching fish like this through the ice, then I'm happy!
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Here's a map of the lake, it's about 80 acres and pretty shallow with the deepest areas near shore.
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Comment by Slip Sinker on January 21, 2015 at 5:57pm
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how deep is the basin of the lake?
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Thanks guys. These fish were in 7-8' of water, hitting any where from 4-12" off the bottom. We were using Northland hexi fly jigs tipped with a waxworm fishing them under a float. And it was actually pretty mild weather. Temps got into the low 40s while we were there.
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nice mess o ' fish Adam... what was the technique and rigging?
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Comment by carl hendrix on January 21, 2015 at 12:53pm
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great looking mess od fish there!! but it looks COLD to!! LOL!!
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 21, 2015 at 9:53am
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Good for you Adam........glad you got out!
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Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on January 21, 2015 at 9:40am
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LOOKS LIKE A FISH FRY IN THE MAKING !!!
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Comment by dick tabbert on January 21, 2015 at 9:35am
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Adam congrats on the getting out and another congrats on the days bounty.
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