Bluegill Fishing

Fished with Daryl on Mud Bay, which is part of Portage Lake. Temperature this morning was 32 degrees with a light drizzle and when we quit fishing it was 39 degrees with the wind blowing about 5 knots out of the southwest. The ice is 9 inches thick. The roads on the way out to Dexter this morning were terrible. There was a thin layer of ice on them and M14 east bound was completely shut down because of all the semi trucks jack knifed and in the ditch. Once I got to Dexter the roads were not too bad. We used spikes and small teardrops fishing just off the bottom to catch all the fish. We caught a small perch and put that on a tip up to try for some pike but it did not work. Most of the time while we were out fishing there was a drizzle of rain which kept us in the shanty. We started fishing at Bay Point and caught mostly dinks. Made a move out to the mouth of the bay and we started to catch some nicer fish. Caught a lot of fish today but we only had 11 keepers with the largest measuring 8 1/2 inches. Just enough fish for a good bluegill dinner.