I have had success with a crappie rig. That being a sinker at the bottom with 2 arms if you will at 180° intervals with red beads. Most of that has come from severely dingy to slightly muddy Waters. I generally use with a light sinker on the bottom and a single minnow on small red laser sharpened eagle claw hook (straight shank hooked by the tail x2). I fish this under a slip bobber. I try to get the bobber to almost lay down on the water when the sinker is setting on the bottom. This let's you see the bobber lay down when a fish strikes from the bottom and carries the bait towards the top. Which is generaly on the light bite. I have also used this same technique to have my good friends tell me that if I catch one more perch on their boat I will need to swim back. Mind you perch fishing on Erie I never been use a slip bobber. Hope this gives you some help.

No ice within 2 hrs of me so I'm going steelhead fishing in the river. At least I can get out of the wind if I have to. I live smack dab in between the vermilion river and the rocky river. It will be very cold but the water temp warmed a little. Cleaning ice out of the eyelets is tougher ten feet away. But I gotta stretch a line and can't make a 3 hour drive one way this weekend. Anyone interested let me know.

I believe it would be more than just a spot.

PLEASE NOTE YOUR LAKE OF CHOICE ASWELL

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I just downloaded that app. Very easy to use.

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I received a call from a buddy. After I left Sunday, someone with a gas auger and a year or two of pent up frustration  poked around 30 holes off the main trail on the south lake from the west parking lot. The holes are around the main stump which sticks out about 4' from the top of the ice. They also punched around 20 holes directly west of the boat ramp off the east enterance, north edge of the south lake. With the rain and warm weather this concerns me. I wish people would be a little more concerned with preserving the ice. That many holes with 10" of ice and week of cold weather is OK . Not with rain and 60. Hopefully the ice holds I got a year to make up for I feel this is info that must be shared. I saw the largest amount of people on that lake in 7 yrs.