Ice Fishing Reports and Ice Conditions by lake. => Indian Lake => Topic started by: toadfish on January 27, 2011, 10:22:37 AM
Title: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: toadfish on January 27, 2011, 10:22:37 AM
Anyone been out at O'Conner's/Northfork have an ice report or bite report for saugeye? Been thinking about hittin' it there on Sunday 1-30-2011.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: zoeconner on January 27, 2011, 11:04:50 AM
Im going sunday to. I want to try for eyes but it seems that pan fish are hitting the best right now. I never fished for them yet on the ice. Dont know what to really look for in the water?????
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: firefish532 on January 27, 2011, 03:02:12 PM
eye bite is slow and scarce to say the least I am going friday and I will pm you with any thing I find
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: toadfish on January 28, 2011, 05:57:51 AM
Thanks Firefish. Best of luck to you.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: zoeconner on January 28, 2011, 03:58:13 PM
U better have saved some fish for me. ;D
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: firefish532 on January 28, 2011, 08:34:21 PM
no eyes today caught 2 dinks and 20 white bass
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: toadfish on January 29, 2011, 07:33:44 AM
Bummer dude. I think I may head to another lake on Monday since wind is supposed to be out of the NE on Sunday. I was hoping the eyes may be turning on. How much ice was there at NF?
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: megan66 on January 31, 2011, 01:43:48 PM
Eye bite is on, just look for them, keep drilling holes. Pimples and 5 to 6 feet of water seem to be the best.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: wballard77 on January 31, 2011, 03:55:37 PM
Eye bite is on, just look for them, keep drilling holes. Pimples and 5 to 6 feet of water seem to be the best.
I was out this AM and they are on fire in blackhawk. I used bass minnows and a jig purple jig head.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: megan66 on February 01, 2011, 11:41:05 PM
I doubt fish are on fire at Blackhawk, friends of mine fish this area daily.
I have not heard many good reports. Blackhawk is only seeing a handful of fisherman per night. Not the 20 plus fisherman like last winter. This sounds a little bit fishy to me?
My husband and I have taken 10 keepers this week. Not that good considering we fished 3 days.
Many small throw backs, should be great next year!
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: wballard77 on February 02, 2011, 12:27:19 AM
No fish story! just stay in the newly dredged areas. use tip ups to locate the hot hole and then jig in that hole. also heard that off of wolf island a few limits were caught (via bait shop) but I didn't see a good place to access? now Dunns on the other hand is a dead sea!
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: hawgjam on February 02, 2011, 03:55:13 PM
Fished Monday 1/31 and Tue 2/1 at NF. Nothing but white bass in the AM on Monday. Moved around and started getting more crappie and perch bites by early PM. That aftetnoon, right as the weather started to come in and the winds changed direction, I got a few eys to bite. One keeper and 2 toss backs. On Tue. morning I caught 6 eyes but not one single keeper. Kept 4 perch and 4 crappie though. Got wet and nasty in the early PM with freezing rain so enough is enough and I'm gone. It seems to me that the fishing is back to a more predictable pattern, but the dink ratio is still extremely high. Every eye I caught was on #3 or #4 pimples tiped with a minnow head. Pink or red prism colors seemed to be the ticket as the storm tracked thru.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: hardwateraddiction on February 07, 2011, 12:34:02 PM
Fished sat the 5th all day at long island and NF with 3 friends one of of which was a 12 yr old 1st timer which was cool. Lots and lots of gills and some decent crappie peppered in as well,but only 2 eyes 1 of which was a keeper. Must have got 3-4 inches of snow while we fished and was pretty sore from dragging my sled around in it while also fighting the 4-5 inches of ice covered snow/slush below the new snow. A good time was had by all and the newbie nailed some too so that made it even better. Eyes caught on 1/4 oz vibes.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: ICE COLD on February 07, 2011, 12:51:25 PM
Hardwater, were there any size on the gills? We fished Delaware Saturday and we caught around 80 fish but only one keeper.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: hardwateraddiction on February 07, 2011, 05:09:09 PM
We caught some very nice gills. My buddy kept around 25-30 of the biggest. forgot to mention we caught alot of whitebass as well but no real size to them. Shoot me a PM if you go back and I'll let you know exactly where we were.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: ICE COLD on February 08, 2011, 08:22:39 AM
Hardwater, sent you a PM. Thanks.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: ICE COLD on February 08, 2011, 10:02:13 AM
Thanks for the info hardwater. Thats about the exact same area we were planning on hitting Sunday.
Title: Re: Northfork/O'Conners Ice Cond, and 'Eye Bite?
Post by: megan66 on February 21, 2011, 08:36:22 AM
Still 5 to 6" on Northfork area in some places.
Fished it last night and got 4 keepers. Red pimples.