02-21-2006, 11:58 PM
Burrrrrrrr is was cold this morning. -21 degree's when we arrived. We strapped on the snowshoes and headed to the same spot we did well at 2 weeks ago. After trudging through 18 inches of powder for 45 minutes we finally made it to the spot with plenty of snot frozen to our faces (note to self..buy a snowmobile!). Unfortunately this spot was not as good as it was when we fished it on several days 2-3 weeks ago. We were fishing 25 feet deep and started with tube jigs and minnows. We missed a few and caught a few but mostly just spent our time scooping ice out of our holes and clearing ice from our rod eyes. Fortunatly the sun came up and no W... so it seemed to warm up but not enough to thaw out our snotstaches. At about 9 the fish quit biting but saw lots of drivebys on the finder. We tried switching to meal worms and caught a couple and then couldn't find anything that they wanted. So in short it was a lot of work for very few fish. The walk is brutal but before today it always paid off to get away from the crowds but today it was just a lot of work with little reward. But it beat going to work! It warmed up to a balmy -7 when we left at 11:15. Ice is about 24+ inches thick with 12-18 of powder on top of it. No slush. Forget about using wheelers unless the marina area has been packed down.
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