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Ice Fishing Reports and Ice Conditions by lake. => Portage Lakes => Topic started by: icebucketjohn on January 24, 2011, 06:02:33 AM
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Checked the ice conditions at Portage Lakes Saturday afternoon, 1/22 before deciding to venture out early Sunday morning, 1/23. (This past weeks reports of lowered water levels had me spooked).
Ice looked good... normal. We were on the ice by 7:30 with my son, Nate and fellow gray-beard icer, Ed. Nate & I had a tough day and decided to try to find suspended perch or crappie in the large section of Turkeyfoot Lake. After a dozen holes, no luck and we returned to our original spots. Ed had a hot hole all day long. He fished till noon taking home 52 gills while Nathan & I caught 42 and took home only 11. Ed caught a few nice 9" hog bluegill while both Nathan & me were hitting "munchin land" gills. Nthan did catch 4 nice crappie, but Ed blitzed us today.
It was cold, but fun. Got home in time to clean up, watch the football games and fillet our fish.
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Nice catch and great post.
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where the best spot on turkeyfoot to fish panfish going saturday for the first time there
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Lots of areas:
1. Entrance to Rex Lake is good
2. Flag Pole at Dusty's
3. Entrance to Old State Park
4. Speed Lane: Note it's deep water area - 45ft+
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we hit the channel by old state park headed back twords 619 we have been doin reallly good their just watch the dumb ahole snowmobilers thay have no common sence
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I fished the Clock Tower twice last week (Weds 2/9 and Thurs 2/10) after work for about an hour or so. Both trips yielded 3 fish... 2 perch and 1 red-ear. All 3 were dinks. Disappointing to say the least.