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Ice Fishing Reports and Ice Conditions by lake. => Grand Lake St. Marys => Topic started by: wapak ice dawg on February 12, 2016, 09:57:15 PM

Title: Ice on / fish out
Post by: wapak ice dawg on February 12, 2016, 09:57:15 PM

fished andersons today, marked fish all over but only managed to catch small gills. It seems whenever the ice comes back on the crappie become elusive

Title: Re: Ice on / fish out
Post by: Bryan78 on February 13, 2016, 05:14:01 AM

Which channel did you fish? I don't know why the crappies disappear when the ice is on. I caught a few keepers the other day through the ice and that's a first for me on this lake. Yesterday the entire bottom would light up on my flasher but nothing would bite. Can't say if the marks were anything worth catching but it was lit up like a Xmas tree. I didn't see anyone fishing the channel until the day after someone saw me get a couple keepers there. Yesterday there were 7 cars parked there. I didn't get any keepers yesterday but had been actually getting keeper sized gills and that's also a first for me on this lake. Hitting Indian Lake this morning. I

Title: Re: Ice on / fish out
Post by: wapak ice dawg on February 13, 2016, 02:12:39 PM

I fished the front channel of Andersons, there was one guy there when I got there and 1 more showed up later, I fished from around 2pm until 5:30

Title: Re: Ice on / fish out
Post by: 30inthabucket on February 14, 2016, 06:37:54 PM

Tried it this morning. It sucked. Few small crappie and gills. Lots of marks early. Few bites.

Title: Re: Ice on / fish out
Post by: toadfish on February 15, 2016, 07:27:43 AM

Lots of marks for me and no bites.  4-5" of ice on Valentine's day.