Some one out there has to ice fish right get out there and see what the conditions are heard there are a ton of perch and walleye stocked in number two every does any one go and catch ?
I took my equipment out there this afternoon ( Wednesday )...fished over the Christmas trees for 2 hrs, with the Marcum camera down. All I saw in 2 hrs was my minnow doing the hulla. Water was real clean, 8+ inches of hard clear ice just no fish as usual. AH2
I fished over those old trees this fall quite a bit and nothing. Not even a pull down on the bobber. Think I saw your rig parked over that area yesterday about 3pm. I'am dragging my feet about getting out.
Looks like there are decent fish there what fow do you fish wondering if u need to go for deeper or something those are tasty got to be a hoard of them some where in there
Fishing at the Findlay reservoirs has not been good for a long time now , if you are lucky enough to locate some fish you have a chance of getting them to bite but be prepared to work for anything you catch. I finally got out on the ice to fish yesterday around 1:30 or so , my first time for the season. #2 had a lot of melt or rain water on the surface in spots , most crusted over with a thin layer of ice , even though the ice still appeared plenty thick underneath it was wet and slick and I didnt have a good feeling about it so I went over to #1 and it was better and there were a couple guys fishing way out toward the middle. I went out but not that far and put a hole in some good ice. Was getting a lot of aggressive bites on a teardrop and waxworm below a small buckshot spoon , it really surprised me because I expected it to be like it usually is.....just drowning worms , the bite was good but no hookups until I finally caught a small perch. He went back down the hole to grow some more. I baited back up and something was tearing it up again for a while and then like somebody threw a switch all of a sudden the bite was gone and I couldnt bring it back. It was fun but probably just a few tiny ones passing through making it look better than it was. I had to leave but first I decided to try a different teardrop without the buckshot spoon , had no takers on it at all for a while so I packed up and left. Was going to try it again today but its warm , raining , and probably pretty messy out there so I may not. The warm up and rain for the next week or so has probably signaled the end of ice fishing for a while until it gets cold again.
is it just me or did the state give up on upground resevoirs, they drained my favorite, killdeer, then I read bad reports from a lot of the other towns. How about stocking these lakes for the locals.
If we get the 6 inches of snow their calling for this weekend and then followed by single digit temps next week it will be a lot work to get around out there in that tundra!
When I looked at the weather report this morning I could have sworn I seen it say it was going to be warm and rainy for a week straight , but looking at it now we will be back to cold temperatures by the weekend. I dont know if it will be enough to get the ice back into condition but looks better than I was thinking
Yes what I have seen at Findlay #2 is just no one fishing it. I saw a few holes out from the ramp area but no one on the ice. Then at number 1 there was a crowd of guys spread out. I talked to a guy that caught 17 keeper perch around where the fishing platform was docked. I took my grandson out the next evening and we had a lot of hits the whole time catching some of the perch of about 4 inches, nothing larger nor smaller. So looks like the DNR dumped some perch and in a few years we will have a perch harvest, thank god they did not dump more white bass. Indian is where the action is now, all the regular spots. Hate to tell you but last evening my son and his buddy went to Grand Lake St Mary, brought home 2 nice walleye and 8 fat crappie, fishing below the spillway. They are going back tonight.
But how is the ice ? I went over to Findlay 1 and 2 yesterday and the ice looked so bad there was now way I would be out there fishing , the wind and warmer temps had it melting away pretty quick. I havent been to Indian but its hard to imagine it being much different.
The ice was good yesterday and today. I was fishing on #1 today , I drilled 2 places both 8" atleast. Had a few light bites when I first got there but then the bite disappeared. There is no pattern or time of day , its all about getting lucky , but in the past ....I dont know 6 or 8 years thats what it has been like there , atleast for perch. Crappie or bluegill ?....I rarely ever catch them there so they are an even bigger mystery.
All looked good , everything that thawed turned around and locked up really fast. That means there may be some pockets half the thickness of the rest but all i personally seen was atleast 8 inches. I dont want to call any ice " safe ".....but I did a lot of walking out there today and never seen anything that scared me. Thats just #1 though , I didnt try 2... The fish are another story however ,.....almost any place has to be better than Findlay.
I was out there for a little while in the afternoon , got a few light bites which took my wax worm as soon as I got there but after that nothing. Atleast you caught a carp though , so that had to be fun...
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