walleyemaxx
12-06-2010, 09:03 AM
Hi everyone,
Watched the Packer game untill half time, than headed out. Used my 6 wheeler to travel down the shore area of a lake close to home. Still not thick enough to travel out to the middle yet. It snowed the whole time I was out there and continued to snow all night. Now the ice will take longer to thicken up and I'll be using my snowmobile instead unless we get slush.
There was a lot of fish on the Vex the whole time I was fishing, but they were just sniffing again for about the first 2 hours. When I finally figured out what technique would work for today, they still weren't overly active. Managed to catch a bunch of small Perch and small Walleye. I was going to release every thing any way. It is just fun to catch fish thru a little hole in the ice. When the ice does thicken, I'll be able to fish some of the larger lakes in the area and move quit a bit to find active fish.
The baits that worked for me this weekend was a small spoon and a small jigging Rapala.On Sat. the jigging Rap worked the best, on Sun. the small spoon worked the best. Both days I tipped with Waxworms. Had to use two, they wouldn't touch it with just one. Even the Walleyes prefered the Waxworms. I tried the minnow heads, but nothing would touch it, just look at it. Strangely, I caught nothing on tippups. I had Golden shinners on them, with just one flag again which the fish dropped after a short run. On this particular lake, I usually catch most of the Walleyes on tippups and the Golden Shinner is the prefered minnow in the winter. Have to do some more experimenting again, but that's the fun of it.
Anybody going out, good luck and be safe out there. The snow can change the ice conditions rapidly. Watch for that.
Walleyemaxx
Watched the Packer game untill half time, than headed out. Used my 6 wheeler to travel down the shore area of a lake close to home. Still not thick enough to travel out to the middle yet. It snowed the whole time I was out there and continued to snow all night. Now the ice will take longer to thicken up and I'll be using my snowmobile instead unless we get slush.
There was a lot of fish on the Vex the whole time I was fishing, but they were just sniffing again for about the first 2 hours. When I finally figured out what technique would work for today, they still weren't overly active. Managed to catch a bunch of small Perch and small Walleye. I was going to release every thing any way. It is just fun to catch fish thru a little hole in the ice. When the ice does thicken, I'll be able to fish some of the larger lakes in the area and move quit a bit to find active fish.
The baits that worked for me this weekend was a small spoon and a small jigging Rapala.On Sat. the jigging Rap worked the best, on Sun. the small spoon worked the best. Both days I tipped with Waxworms. Had to use two, they wouldn't touch it with just one. Even the Walleyes prefered the Waxworms. I tried the minnow heads, but nothing would touch it, just look at it. Strangely, I caught nothing on tippups. I had Golden shinners on them, with just one flag again which the fish dropped after a short run. On this particular lake, I usually catch most of the Walleyes on tippups and the Golden Shinner is the prefered minnow in the winter. Have to do some more experimenting again, but that's the fun of it.
Anybody going out, good luck and be safe out there. The snow can change the ice conditions rapidly. Watch for that.
Walleyemaxx