Fished with Doug Esch and John Hiltz (Lou) on a small lake in Chelsea. Temperature this morning was in the lower 20s and when we quit fishing it was 19 degrees and very foggy. There was very little wind. The ice is about 8 inches thick but with all the rain forecast for this weekend it might put a hurt on the ice fishing for a while. We used Rat Finkies and small jigs tipped with mousies and spikes. We started fishing at O Dark Thirty (6:30 AM) and I do mean it was dark. We were dropping lines in the water 1 1/2 hours before sunrise hoping to catch some crappie. Well, that did not happen but right at day break the fish turned on and we picked up a few crappie. The bite was slow but at least we picked up an occasional fish. We only fished to 9:00 AM and then we had to quit. Could not ask for a better day for fishing weather wise and if we had a little more time we would have caught some more fish, this is just a great lake to fish in the winter. Kept 18 blue gills (largest was 9 inches) and 5 crappie (largest 11 1/2 inches). I did not know this but this was John's first time fishing for pan fish on the ice!
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