Weather:
NW 10, 14 ˚, clear, 30.28 falling
Water:
5.78 steady, 31.8 kcfs, clear
Location:
Pool 6, near Winona
Caught:
Approx. 10 crappies 9 – 14”, 25 gills 6 – 7.5”, 6 perch 4 – 9”, 3 LMB 14 – 20”, 2 pike 24 & 26”
Partners:
Jake T.
Comments
Time wise it was a short afternoon ice fishing outing, but drive wise it was about a sixty mile trip. We were targeting a back bay impoundment of the Mississippi river that does not get a lot of fishing pressure. The bay has some shallow weed areas along with some deeper dredge and scour holes.
Today I planned on putting out four tip ups and we would jig fish with two other poles in the comfort of my portable heated shack. We punched quite a few holes in pursuit of the sweet spots.
We found water greater than ten feet for jig fishing and by looking at clear areas of the ice I was able to find the weed edges for our tip ups. We no sooner had our four tip ups out and we had our first flag. I ended up catching a fourteen inch bass on my favorite pink Polar tip up. While I was busy catching the bass and re baiting the tip up, Tupper was busy pulling in bluegills and crappies.
At the end of the day we were both impressed with the size of the two crappies we caught along with the size of a couple of the bass. We were also impressed with the numbers of fish we caught. We had great action when we first set up, but then as the sun settled into the far reaches of the western sky the action slowed considerably.
Observations:
The size of two of the crappies and one of the bass were phenomenal. The ice thickness was somewhere between ten and twelve inches. It was nice to have some clear ice. I was easily able to find the weed edges by looking through the clear ice and spotting a line of continuous air bubbles encased till spring in the clear, hard ice.
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