Big Gills

Fished with Daryl and his friend, Dale, in a canal to Woodburn Lake, in Unadilla, MI.

Temperature this morning was in the upper 20's with a slight breeze. A perfect day for ice fishing.

We were fishing in water about 4 ft deep and most of the fish were about a foot off the bottom. The fish were being finicky biters today and it took just the right touch to hook them.

Dale had a hot hand and caught the most fish of the day. Daryl also had a good catch. I was using spikes and Daryl and Dale were using mousies. Thank God for good friends, as they made up for my lack of landing very many fish and added theirs to my pile so we would have enough for dinner tonight!

Kept 43 bluegill and 2 crappie between 7 and 9.5 inches. By the way, the photo is of Dale and his pile of fish.

First Fishing Outing of 2008

Ice Fished with Doug Sowa today at Lake St. Clair. The temperature this morning was 9 Degrees and by lunchtime it had made it up to a whopping 20 Degrees. Wind was out of the southwest 5-10 knots.

Started fishing at Metro Beach straight out 500 feet from the beach, which was as far as we could go out on the ice safely. Had about 3 inches of ice. We fished this area for about 45 minutes and decided to move because the water was very dirty. Only caught 2 perch. Headed up to Campau Bay off of South River Road. Only a few guys were fishing here about 500 feet offshore but it didn't look as though they were catching anything so we headed to a canal on the Salt River. Doug caught a few small bluegill and that was it. Went up to New Baltimore, but no one was fishing there, so we went to Fairhaven. A few shanties at Fairhaven, but again, no one seemed to be catching anything, so we headed to the apartments by Gino's and fished in the marina there for about 45 minutes. Caught a lot of dinks, so we decided to call it a day. Spent more time driving than we did fishing, but that usually happens on the first ice fishing trip of season. A good way to spend MLK Day!

Ice Fishing ??

Hoping to go ice fishing Monday, January 21, since I have the day off. Went to the Ultimate Fishing Show at Rock Financial in Novi last Saturday with Joe and John.