hit up west branch with a couple of my icer buds.  went on at the big marina  and out by the wall, there was about 5 6 clear and 8 of frozen slop,  color was nice,  we were in 30 ft  off the docks  marking fish,   using maggys and minnows  we caught about 12 perch   extremely light bite.. i was using a small tung jig w  maggys  and a gold pimple w minnow.   you had to drop your bait in the mud take slack up in your line and slowly wery slowly reel up  then smack.....once the bite slowed down to zip  we packed it up,     

well folks i have been out a few times and wow ,,,  the snow is so  deep getting out a ways on the lakes is really  really tough, theres  walkabe ice all over my haunts but i  havent done real well just a couple dinks  ....    hit up hinkly lake during the start of the last snow blast...  ice was good 5 solid and 4-6 trash and i couldnt measure the snow  .   but no fish ,     

last year was  tough finding propane bottles  in the 1 lb ,   usually fill my own but this year i will just buy some .  lol   i need the new tanks  hahahah..   hopefully the problem doesnt happen this year  ...   since the ice ice better this year  i actually feel like putting the effort in to go fishin    hahahaha    hows the propane situation out there guys, with these temps ya can burn thru  a couple tanks a day , i do...i like it warm in my shanty  hehehehh    i have 2  buddy heaters   one single and a double w/  fan  ....

read an article where there dropping the perch limit between huron and fairport to 10.  so if ya fish erie any we already figured that was gonna happen 3 yrs ago,  wonder about commercial  netts ?  too bad i used too chase perch all over fairport was my fav next to lorain and cleveland.  cleveland was my best place in the 80s  90s   lots of big perch in 30 ft out from stadium.  lots of walleye  now..........i bet i still have 25 lbs of fillets of wally in freez...   cheezzzz

had some fun on the river with my bud  , thought i would post pics if i can , my buddys  2nd yesterday..  small jig w/gulp maggy under a float....they were jumping all around..i had 1 pull back but nothing landed.... 

i have been  checkn out my next heater, instead of a big heavy buddy heater this one looks like it will be nice and light.  im not getting any younger and the need to lighten the sled is a must.  cant believe how my sled looks like a junk wagon   hahah   now the next thhing is that heavy gas drill......cant seem to load any pics   got lucky with the one  haahahahah

went to la pu   after my bud got off work about 430 on the ice, we headded out from the 422 launch towards deeper water , about 19 ft.   ice was hard on top and about 4   semi clear, water had a stain with couple ft visibility.  only stayed couple hrs...
we managed about 15 or so  mix of gills, dink perch, dink crappy,   the fish were moving around and would come thru in waves,  oh yeah  and some white perch.   just before dark fish got active,  was using vodka emeralds, waxies.   fish would only chase bait up for about 5 ft  up and on the drop. we were hitting a mix bag when a very large mark on sonar was hovering 1-2  ft off bottom, followed bait up and down for awhile  and scared off the other fish but wouldnt  take the bait.  about 4 other shacks out with us..the ice was growing because a large crack went pow and  shed bounced  gave a butt pucker for a second  hahahahh
but i know the sounds the ice makes  and sometimes its awesome. best jigs were chartruse green  or gold pimples   glow  pin mans  started as got dark,   fish on and stay dry  no pics sorry