Ice Fish Ohio Forum
Ice Fishing Reports and Ice Conditions by lake. => Ferguson => Topic started by: toadfish on February 07, 2015, 05:53:39 AM
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Fished fergie 2-6-2015 3:00 to dark. 1 small 12" eye on a dropper rig with yellow jig with red spikes. 14 fow about 1/3 across from point from north side. Only fish I marked on the vexilar. A few guys have been catching some perch but they are spotty. Ice was 12-14" thick.
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can you use a gas auger or ATV?
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Good question. Id say no to the ATV
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There are no rules against atv's or gas auges that I know of. No gas motors in open water since it is a reservoir for Lima's drinking water. A rule that to me makes little sense since the water is drawn from the auglaize river which does allow gas outboards.
Good luck if you go and post a report.
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Have you seen atvs out there? we seen one on Bressler a few weeks ago.
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I have not seen an ATV on either reservoir.
Send me a PM if you guys want to get together and fish either place sometime before the ice leaves.
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Im getting to old to walk to far. how far do i need to walk to get to the perch?
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Great question walleyeguy. I have not been able to catch a perch through the ice at Ferguson. The only perch I have caught have been in fall near the steps on the south side. It is pretty rugged trying to drag your gear up the dike, but once you get on the ice, the walking is not too bad. I am nearly 48 but run a lot so I am not opposed to walking from one side to the other.
I don't know where all the perch go in winter. The place is supposed to have lots of them. I have only had bad luck in finding them. The ones I caught in open water were all nice size.
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HMMM.... I take that as a challenge!
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We were able to catch perch close to the north bridge (under water) caught maybe 50-75 perch all around 5-6" Wes moved south to a "pocket" and caught one that was maybe 10-11" Im not sure this lake is better than Bressler for size but it sure does have the numbers.
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Never fished Ferguson before want to fish tomorrow any pointers where to start.
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walleyeguy, where is this north bridge? Is it on Ferguson? I don't have a smartphone/navionics, but I do have a handheld GPS. It would be great if you could supply coordinates, at least I would have an idea of where to try. It could help out nags too. The end is getting near with wm temps in the forecast.
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Wes Ballerd would be the guy to ask he put all of us on spots and he nicknames them. I dont have the coordnates. but id say 1/4 mile east from the lanch maybe 150 yards south from the bank. Couldnt use a camera but he has a lerance with downscan and could see the bridge.
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I call him and ask
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I call him and ask
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Thanks Wes, it worked fine. I may give this spot a try Monday or Tuesday before things really start melting.
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walleyeguy makes this story sound better than it was. Most of the fish were small, they were going between the bridge (culvert) and the Humps to the west. the bite would last 10-15 min and then the fish would roam the flat in a counter clockwise pattern. Me and another guy (Mike) were there for 4+ hours trying to find them before the rest of the group got there and the day before. I will post my Hole map and catch area map also. Thanks Mike Gossert for helping me drill almost 200 holes. the biggest fish was 11" caught in the river bed next to the humps. The foundation had lots of marked fish but no takers
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Thanks for putting us on the fish! we struggled last week and we were on ferggie everyday. You should really start an inland guide service!