01-18-2016, 11:17 PM
My Son and I decided to skip out on watching the Steelers/Broncos game and go catch some Crappie....headed up to the "View"
* Fished late afternoon/early evening
* Off Cemetery North
* 45' of water
* 8" of ice
* Caught our 40 pretty easily.
* Used Kastmasters on bottom/Ratfinkee Chartruese on top dropper. Both tipped with 1/2 of a meal worm. It was about 50/50 on what bait they hit.
* A short jig with a pause would elicit the bite. My son had a spring bobber and my rod has a built in bobber tip (13 Fishing Tickle Stick) which both were necessary to see the bite.
* Slush on the ice sucked...Our strategy was to find a good patch of undisturbed snow and drilled our holes there...we packed the snow down instead of shoveling it. Worked well.
* The finder had so many fish marked the bottom appeared to be @ 40'....but it wasnt...the first 5' of red marks were fish...!
*Filleting 40 Crappie sucks....
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* Fished late afternoon/early evening
* Off Cemetery North
* 45' of water
* 8" of ice
* Caught our 40 pretty easily.
* Used Kastmasters on bottom/Ratfinkee Chartruese on top dropper. Both tipped with 1/2 of a meal worm. It was about 50/50 on what bait they hit.
* A short jig with a pause would elicit the bite. My son had a spring bobber and my rod has a built in bobber tip (13 Fishing Tickle Stick) which both were necessary to see the bite.
* Slush on the ice sucked...Our strategy was to find a good patch of undisturbed snow and drilled our holes there...we packed the snow down instead of shoveling it. Worked well.
* The finder had so many fish marked the bottom appeared to be @ 40'....but it wasnt...the first 5' of red marks were fish...!
*Filleting 40 Crappie sucks....
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