Lets hope that the big snows and the freezin ass cold weather is behind us. The main lake ice seems to have held up pretty well considering all the snow, ive had reports of as much as 13″ of ice out over deep water. The last 2 days have been warm and have definately compacted the snow, now we just need a freeze to stiffen it up. The snowmobiles are having no problem and the walkers are doing ok if they can catch an old trail heading to where they want to go, the wheelers are not faring so well out there though.
The hottest bite on the lake right now is still off the islands and shoals south of Constantia. The jumbo perch and the walleye’s are there and are snapping at hot offerings. What are they eating? well ill tell you. Vertical baits like kastmasters, northland buckshot spoons and swedish pimples tipped with minnow heads and horizontal baits like sonars, northland fish fry traps and jigging raps. The perch are eating big caty lightning jigs in hot pink and glow and red/green nitro glow, northland minnow jig and small jigging raps tipped with wax worms or perch eyes. There is also more good news, big bay is no longer a fished out wasteland. It is alive and full of fish. In the last 2 days the crappies and blue gills and sunfish have been biting pretty good. Glow pink ratso’s, green glow moon glow’s, Caty blue and pearl glow thunder’s.
This is going to be a good weekend weather wise, we have the Norterby and the following weekendheast Ice Tour here on Sunday, next weekend the 5th is the South Shore derby, the 12th is the legion derby in cleveland and the following weekend the 19th and 20th we will be having our derby at the shop. It will be 2 days long and we will have all rules and dates posted by monday.
We have been fully restocked with ice fishing gear so you dont have to go without for the next 2 months of great fishing. We have all the new northland jigs in stock, 4 sizes of kastmasters, 3 sizes of swedish pimples, 2 sizes of jigging rapala’s, demon’s and ratso’s and great live bait.
We are open 7 days a week at 6am.
Thank you
Matt
