Day 316-49 to go
2-28-10 Sun
1:30PM-4:30PM

Weather: N7, overcast, 36°, 30.11 Steady

H2O: 7.24' steady, 21 kcfs, clear, 25"

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 4 - Wabasha MN, Robinson
Lake

Caught

1. Bluegills (20) 6-8.5" Rat Finkee, red worn (kept 7)

partners

None

Comments

I fished a new location today on the same body of water I had fished in January. I dropped Autumn and a friend off at the ski hill and I went ice fishing. I was operating on a tip I had received earlier in the year. When I got to the landing I found no ice fisherman, but I did find an empty ice road leading someplace out into the bay. I was a little hesitant to follow the road since I did not know where it led and if it was safe to drive on. After a quarter mile I spotted two distinct groups of fisherman and their vehicles, the ice immediately felt much safer to me.
I blindly set up on the fringe of one group and got my gear ready. I was quite surprised by the twenty-five inches of ice and only fifteen inches of water between the bottom of the ice and the bottom of the lake. Could a fish possibly survive in this? It did not take me too long peering into the camera that I knew I had made the right choice. I was very surprised by the number of fish on the camera and the size of the fish!
However the fish were very slow and inactive. The only way I could catch decent fish was to use a wiggly red worm hooked once in the middle on a very small trout hook.