Little Bay de Noc Fishing Reports

Because of a death in my wife's family, the past two weekends were spent travelling...but I finally got back out on the ice yesterday afternoon and had an awesome time.  It was so nice and warm out that I decided just to walk out somewhere and sit butt-on-a-bucket.  I got to my first choice of spots but somebody was already there.  Drove to my 2nd choice of locations...somebody there too.  As they say, "Third time's the charm", and it sure was.  I finally got set up about 4 p.m. and had my first fish on the ice at 4:30, a nice 22 inch walleye.  This was caught on a #7 glow purple tiger Rap, a color my buddy Ray has been doing pretty good on all winter.  It was a pretty steady stream of fish from that point on to about 6p.m. when I packed up.  2nd fish came on a tip-up with a small sucker, this was a 22 1/2 incher. Then I released a 29 inch beauty caught on the #7 glow purple tiger, then I caught a 25 incher that inhaled a #7 firetiger Rap.  Then, I had just lost one jigging when a flag popped up.  I went to check that tip-up and my other flag popped up, all the while the graph was lighting up with fish.  Usually I don't mess around with tip-ups too much, and this was exactly the reason why.  When the fish are coming through I like to be jigging!  Well...I managed to lose the fish on the first flag, then I got the tip-up line tangled and decided just to pull it up, put it away and go get the other flag.  Sometimes it seems like walleyes have some sort of crazy esp...because as soon as I got close to my tip-up the spool quit spinning, and yup...the fish dropped the bait.  This was the best couple of hours of walleye fishing I've had so far this ice-fishing season and I can't wait to get back out there.  I marked good numbers of fish, some good ones at that, and was able to take some home for the fry pan.  Good luck from all of us in the Bay de Noc area.