Ice Fishing Reports and Ice Conditions by lake. => C.J. Brown => Topic started by: ratherbefishing on December 21, 2010, 04:45:06 PM
Title: Slabs at CJ
Post by: ratherbefishing on December 21, 2010, 04:45:06 PM
Went to CJ Brown this morning between 10:15 and 11:45.
I caught over 50 Crappie! Not just dinks either, in fact the smallest fish I caught would have been one of my biggest the last time I went there. I won't give you GPS coordinates on my exact spot, but I will tell you that you need to be in the Marina and you need to hunt around until you find the brush. I was fishing about 3' from a Christmas Tree and in was phenomenal! Biggest fish were caught in bunches, 3-4 at a time. Had to abandon my second rod after about 20 minutes of chaos. (What a great problem to have!!)
Ice: 3.5"-4" Lure: Fiska Tungsten Jig Silver or Chart/Orange Gill Pill (both with 2 Spikes). They inhaled it. Depth: Right off the bottom in 15' of water. Technique: Tie the lures on with a perfection loop or a Rapala knot to give them some wiggle. Bottom pound a few times and lift off the bottom about 6" with about 3 twitches. Then steadily raise the lure up in a smooth motion. They would either hit within 3' or I'd drop it back down and get more fish gathered in. At one time I had 5 clear, red marks under me from repeating this pattern a couple of times.
This was not a subtle bite. Most of my fish were hooked very well.