I looked all over the map somebody please tell mere where mud Island is at.

Believe me fellas it took a whole bunch of coolness on my part not to get into a physical altercation with these idiots,but remember I had 2 girls with me 1 18 and the other was 9, what kind of example would I have set for my kids if I would have busted at least 1 of them in the mouth. I just considered the source counted my losses and moved on, we still had a great day and we still ice fish together just not Indian and especially on the weekends when these type of people come in hoards. We all have been around some jerks on the ice , in boats and other places in life it's just an unfortunate situation that I needed to walk from. With all being said I have met a great bunch of guys from this web site on the ice and only wished I could fish more often with some of you, I really don't mind fishing close together on the ice for saugeye but crappie and blue gill are a little different.

I took my daughters to north fork last year , we fished up the river and were on the crappies pretty good, I noticed 4 guys watching us from the normal saugeye spots, within a half hour I saw them packing up and heading our way. There were 2-3 other guys fishing a little ways up from us. I told my kids to try not catch a fish knowing these guys would stop by us if they did. Sho nogh they not only stopped but they drilled holes (with power auger) nearly 2feet from my 18yr old daughters spot. We had a good number of fish and weren't keeping all the crappies we caught but the idea of them drilling so close pissed me off. Within a few minutes they started catching them and we lost our bite, then the cussing started and these idiots started talking about blow jobs and screwing women, I told the jerks to stop and that my kids didn't need to here the crap, well that went over real good and lasted only a few minutes. I had no choice but to leave the area and try somewhere else. That trip left a bad taste in my mouth with those idiots and have since stop taking my girls to Indian Lake to ice fish, they remember the good time they had catching all those crappies and want to go back, I just haven't had the guts to take them back there for fear of running into more dumb asses on the ice. Needless to say when those guys finally left that area they left small fish on the ice along with propane bottles and other trash, I have since seen these same guys fishing and this seems to be their practice to fish on top of others who are catching em. Great sportmans of the hard water.

the vex I 've been ice fishing since the early 80's I've used several different types of fish finders from the quad cam, to the hummerbirds portable fish finders , in the early years battery life was the main issue but now vexilar has solved most of the icefishermans problem. the only thing we lack is how to get those tight lipped fish to bite. Maybe vex will come out with a fl-21 used to shock the fish. JUST KIDDING

got to the lake @6:30 am fished north fork got 1 dink eye, left by 9 went over to the bridge @Li area, crappies hit my vib but I couldnt land em switched to crappie rods and nothing, fished there til noon or so, went up the road a bit and tried both sides of the road , nothing notta didnt even mark a fish. Talked to a guy who lives on LI and he and his neighbor fish everyday said the fish moved out or quit bitting last Sat, he said they've picked up a crappie here and there but no steady place or bite. I left LI area and fished several more areas and notta didn't even mark em. Wasgonna hit it again sat but I think I'll wait da snow might be a wee bit too deep for me and da ice may not be so hot with all da snow on top. Good Luck all and if you're on them and you dont mind throwing a crumb or 2 my way I'd appreciate it.

 I belong to a club in wapak and we also had a real bad problem with worms in the fish, the odnr came in and told us ours came from a snail we have in our lakes.The small fish eat the snail which carries this worm and through the chain of being ate they pass it on from fish to fish. they told us the way to get rid of the snail was to stock red eared blue gill in the lakes and in years ahead they will eventually eat all the snails and stop the cycle. its been 5yrs now since we've stocked the red ears and it seems to have helped.They also told us the worm is not harmful to humans because it doesnt get into the meat, it just makes for a nasty looking fish.

went to loramie tues morn, got there @6am fished till 9am never had a bump or even marked a fish. Saw a few guys on the east end but I never bothered to stop