As mentioned in the Ice Reports thread, 3-4" clear ice north end over 20-25' of water. Open water over depths of 40'.

Half a dozen fisherman on the lake, but it was dink city and the bad news were they were females; Males were even smaller. Threw back 20 for every one kept, and some kept only because they couldn't swim back down. Started reeling really slowly since the majority were going to be thrown back.

Kept a dozen or so and regretted it after cleaning 'em this evening; Will look elsewhere for bigger fish.

Fun for the kiddos though if non-stop action's what you're looking for. Only had to drill one hole and stayed there all afternoon; A fish on every drop of the line.

Used a Berkley fake maggot to get my first fish then switched to perch eyes. Got sick of digging out eyes and went back to the fake maggot. Turns out they were even biting bare hooks.

Fish sizes were better two years ago…

dluders

12/9/2013 5:25:00 AM

@ Jay K: Thanks for the update. What is the URL for that "Ice Reports thread" you were talking about in your report?

bullpine

12/9/2013 10:45:00 AM

Maybe they should put in more Tiger Muskies. Sometimes though you need to move as small perch school together and big perch school together so sometimes one hole ain't enough. You probably don't have a lot of options until it freezes some of that deeper water. I seemed the fish were smaller last year too!

Anglinarcher

12/9/2013 5:58:00 PM

Perch do tend to overpopulate. I was hoping the Tigers were doing their job.

Jay K

12/9/2013 8:13:00 PM

Shoot, you can't eat Tigers. WDFW should dump a load of walleye into there, and if the perch don't get bigger, at least the walleye will - THAT would be awesome.

buc

12/10/2013 7:38:00 PM

Hell ya J walleyes fosho!

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