Wednesday, December 21, 2016

First Ice Fishing Trip of the Year

Fished with Joe on Lake St. Clair. Temperature this morning was in the upper teens and when we quit fishing it was in the upper 20's. We fished out of the Metro Park and we walked out from the Day Sail ramp. The ice is a good 6 inches thick and it's good hard ice. Visibility is only about a foot. The water is not dirty it's just cloudy and that should clear up pretty soon. We used wax worms tipped on small jigs and Slab Grabber spoons and Ken spoons. Started fishing in 8 feet of water without much luck. Made a move in closer to 6 1/2 feet of water and we were just set up and all four poles went down. We only landed one of those fish. After that the fishing was pretty slow. Only kept 2 perch for the trip that we gave away to some other fisherman on the ice. It felt good to be back on the ice again, I missed all of last year. Could not have made this trip without Joe, he did all the dirty work.