ice report 12.12.13

[jaybird62]

fished at the sail boat club  for a little while, no bites went to andersons landing and checked ice in the channel by the big parking lot. only had 2inches in every hole i spudded.  did fish it for a while  caught 7 gills but no size to em. checked the first channel as you drive in. couple of other guys were just coming off. said they caught a few and said they had some crappie on but lost em.  i tried it there and caught another 25 gills and one small crappie. they were willingly biting the waxies i had just no size to em.  ice in that channel was better at 3 to 4 inches.  should be good for this weekend if the snow doesnt lay down to heavy a blanket. was great to be back on the ice.  those were the only spots i hit.  be careful if you go. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SAFE ICE!!!

[toadfish]

At least you had some fish coming out of the hole.  I live a few miles west of Andersons and drilled a hole on the open lake last night and only had about 2", but it is clear, hard ice.

Hoping to get out Sunday for walleye or perch since I am busy with kids on Friday and Sat.

I might go after some of those gills or crappie.

BE CAREFUL everyone.

[Bryan78]

I hit the front channel early Saturday and caught probably 25 and half of them could've been keepers but I didn't keep any. Some real nice gills but no crappie. I'm going to get back out again. Fished long island at Indian Sunday and almost all of the fish I caught came before the sun came up.

[toadfish]

I hit a channel on Friday 12-13-2013 in the afternoon and got 5 crappie, 3 keepers and one was 12".  Not one gill but a couple taps from them.

Hit a creek today 12-16-2013 and caught one small gill.  Lots of marks on the Vex but no biters.  Some gills were bumping the jig.  I think the east wind had them with a severe case of lock jaw.  Shad were moving in right at dark, but no one stuck around after 6:00 PM.

Forecast looks pretty poor for a few days and may ruin the ice we do have which is iffy at best.