Got out today with my dad had to break ice to launch the boat, We started heading up south fork to find warmer water and baitfish, I found a school of shad that was prolly 50 yrds long by about 15 yrds wide and around 6ft thick, I lowered the aquaview to take a look at em, they all seemed to be around 4 inchs, They were in 29fow, So we started jiggn, My dad hooked up with one on a Vibee it was right at 22 inchs and weight 3.47 at the time it was pulled out of the water, at the truck it weighed 3.35, I ended up going to 2 for 3 the other shook loose around 8ft below the boat.. one being 21 3.35lb. and the other 17.5 1.98lb and it was a male the bigger one had 6 shad in her belly, one was pretty close to being fresh the other were almost gone, All fish came between 29 and 26 fow under a giant school of shad, 3/8s vibees Lake had some ice in bays and some on mainlake but was blowing around, made it hard to spud a path to launch the boat.

Open water in very large areas at the dam and at the clouds marina, Public boat launch was locked in but only had about an inch of ice i launched my boat and broke ice to get out to Jig, fished for about 3 hrs with only lifting 2 fish.. The front really shut em down in my opinion. Ice will not be ready here for a lil while.

Ice at Bonner Rd. Ramp is right at 2 inchs. with a little white ice...Whole lake is locked up and even under 224 bridge as of 8am 1/20/12

sorry for the late post.. last week got into some fish pretty good for 2 days.. seems like the school will never stick around for more than a couple days.sSo if u get em on ya better pound em while u can.. Fish came on gold 3/16 and firetiger 3/16 biggest one day was 23 and the other was 20.. never used a gaf so much this yr. lost one at the hole that had to been pushin 6 lbs. never fought a fish like this.. made 3 runs from the hole back down thought he was gonna spool me. late on the gaff everytime. he wouldnt give. some things arent meant to be i suppose.. Ice was good 6 7 inchs somewhere around there.

Decided to try a different area of atwood i havent fished in yrs. I fished off the main meach.. I went specifically trying to target saugeye.. Since atwood is such a great crappie lake thought the ice i seem to forget about the saugeye there. I didnt have much luck i fished the afternoon from noon to 430ish.. i only rolled 4 fish..and had 2 bumps on a blue n chrome #5 jiggn rap tipped w minnow head on tail hook.. I have no idea what the were. they acted like a walleye coming off the bottom and timing my vibee. Could of also been catfish as my buddy was using a green buckshot 15 yrds from me and got a 20 incher. Plenty of marks. And definately worth anothet try.. maybe ill try some shallower water.water clarity was great and there was no snow on the lake and with the sun out here and there coulda played a role on em as well. Ice was busted up on shore. Had to find a spot to get on but was too bad. Ice was 5 inchs everywhere i drilled. Saw 2 shantys off yacht club. So we didnt lose our ice we should be good to go now. with cold temps here on out.

Fished the point west of Yacht club.. the same area everyone usually fishes. Fished with a couple friends of mine who havent made it out yet to atwood. We fished from around 150 to 5pm.. Everyone seemed to be packin it in for the day im assuming they were there since morning. talked to a few guys that said they couldnt get em to hit a minnow and some guys said they couldnt get a fish to bite in over an hr and half. We fished mainly from 8 to 11fow. between the 3 of us our gloves were solid ice from handling so many fish. it was up and down for the most part. My buddys were using waxworms on bigger style attracter pimples with drop single hooks. Green in color. they got some really nice gills 8 to 9n half inchs. and of course the 6 to 8 inch crappies. Only managed one keeper crappie during that time between the 3 of us.. and plenty of white bass. I fished white and glow soft plastic tails on white and glow jigs. fishing with 3lb test made it hard when the white bass came in. had a few break offs. but kept steady with little crappie and gills. Gills seemed to be a ft off bottom to bottom and the same with whitebass. occasionally a few high would chase in a bumch of shad and i would pick a few then. crappies were of course suspended most of the time. Coming in schools it was up and down for the most part the whole time. until my hands got cold then i would just relax a few. Ice was everybit around 8 inchs? it was good clear solid ice as well. I dont think a day warm up is going to hurt this lake as good as the ice looks. Could be wrong but treat no ice as "safe ice" Morning bite to afternoon seems to be better. Sorry no pics as i didnt keep any fish gave them to the guys i was fishing with but we ended up with 25 keeper gills and 4 whitebass and 1 keeper crappie

Hey guys.. new to site.. Mainly fish Atwood..Berlin.. and mosquito.. mainly target walleye but will switch to crappie n other panfish to give my vibee jiggn arm a rest. haha.. would like to try one of these southern ohio lakes for saugeyes. Dont know too much about the ice bite on saugeyes. Im assuming close to the same tatics as walleye.. vibees and raps? Minnow heads or tails for a bit of scent.. Anyways i plan on making a trip down there.. I'm around 20 min south of Canton. So its goin to be a bit of a trip. Curious if anyone has any advice on tatics. Not looking for a spot just some tips to help me get started not expecting much my 1st time out on a new lake. but any advice would help. How far of a walk is it to fish? been hearing a lot about sleds and quads. New to me. only experienced that on erie. So if anyone has any input i would greatly appreciate it. More than willing to help anyone on any lake that im familiar with as well. I can put ya on fish and give ya some of the best advice on the lakes i mentioned above.