Well I haven't posted since last year but glad to finally give a report. First time on the bay this year this past weekend. Me and 3 buddies fished from thursday to sunday. from what ive been reading from other post we have done pretty good. Caught over 100 eyes thru the weekend between all of us! Had to struggle for keepers as the majority of them were dinks. Thursday was the best day by far as the spot we fished produced 70 of the fish we caught. A couple pike also got landed. they actually were biting the whole day for us and id say the middle of the day was the fastest action. One guy with us Aj landed a 7-1/2 pound jaw tagged female which was a damn nice fish and first tagged fish ive ever seen caught. fish were caught on all sizes and colors it had seemed. A good portion of the ones i got were spitting out shad when the hit the ice. I got one fish that was prolly 20 inches that spit a perch out that was still flopping around! Guess we found a hungry school of fish. All in all is was a good weekend on the bay and i cant wait to get back. Hated having to leave this morning. Good luck out there. oh ya and i did see some permanant shacks out there go blowing across the ice in that brutal wind on saturday.
I am going to LBDN for a couple of weeks for work. Could you give me any tips or general areas to try for some walleye. I have never fished LBDN before.
i can say stay mobile. move around alot. the weather let us drill multiple holes in one area and bouce hole to hole. finding the fish in the right depth for us was a big key. I also wanted to ask if anyone normally catches white bass on the bay. i did get one that weighed 2lb 13oz on my scale. which is the biggest ive ever caught. never caught one on lbdn tho. curious as to how many ppl do catch them there?
Stiffstick - I am very curious if the ice was smooth clear/black where you were hitting your fish or was it more white or frozen slush or snow covered?
well thursday is when we caught 70 of all of the fish we caught. but we were in deeper water. the ice was clear as could be. you see the fish coming up right thru the ice. now that you say that traveling out there was a spot near it that had white ice i wish we would have tried. i think we just got lucky tho cause like i said they were spitting shad out when we caught them so there were bait fish there and a hungry school of eyes. most of them were dinks. we fished alot of areas and everywhere we went had clear ice about 7-8 inches. i did fish a twenty foot hole to where you could see the bottom clear as day in your shanty. mark very few fish caught one there that went 21 in or so. but all the marks as few as we had we bigger marks