A few nice ones from Lake St Clair

[IceJigger]

Caught 11 or 12 nice keepers pretty fast between 7:45 & 9:15am then the Circus came to town.
Roughly 40 participants I’d say. I was surrounded! :( The larger fish decided to leave, go figure.
Then the dinkfest was on. Stayed till 1 but only caught 3 or 4 additional keepers.

Took home….
4 @ 8-8 ½“
3 @ 9-9 ½“
4 @ 10-10 ½“
4 @ 11 ½-12”
15 Perch

Fished in 7’ of very clear water
12 were caught on minnows
3 were caught on a 1” gold spoon
with a chartreuse bead

Small ponds of water (2-3”deep) are forming on the ice.
Most of the snow should be melted tomorrow afternoon (Friday) causing runoff.
Tuesday is my next time out. Good luck to all. :fish:

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/Lake_St_Clair_Thursday_January_22nd_2009.jpg

[stinger63]

Well ya did good gotcha self a good meal happy eating:)

[jns163]

nice catch looks like you had some fun

[aslongasitpullsback]

yep its amazing when you locate fish that will bite the ''hord'' is on you quicker than snot...
this happen to me on the saginaw river last Monday evening.... caught a few small ones and two keeper size walleyes and then the ''hord'' surrounded me..... I was the only one away from the crowd!!!!!!!
nice catch btw

[Ticketripper]

love my small 1 man shanty for just that reason:)

[steve myers]

If your in the open put the fish in your bucket right away alot less people will see you.

[Mark Sylvester]

And don't raise your arm more than nessasary.
Where did you go out?
Mile roads??

[Kelly Johnson]

I like to scream "Feeeesh Onnnnnn!!!" at the top of his lungs at the first hint of a fish...keeps 'em wondering;)

Nice fish btw :)

[soggybtmboys]

Nice catch!

[Tom 26133]

that picture makes me hungry:yikes: good job

[Topshelf]

Circus coming to town. For the same reasons while I'm Walter fishing in the summer, I have my kids trained to look around before netting a fish. Otherwise you end with 5 boats in your back pocket in just a few minutes.

[Ahill2climb]

Circus coming to town. For the same reasons while I'm Walter fishing in the summer, I have my kids trained to look around before netting a fish. Otherwise you end with 5 boats in your back pocket in just a few minutes.

Congrats on the nice catch. It's about time I've seen a positive report on here. Hopefully that's a sign of things to come.

[mwp]

Very good report and thanks for sharing the info!!

[icefishin nutz]

Great report, nice catch.

[mike the pike]

Nice looking perch. My buddy Dan gets very animated when i land fish ..."OHHHH THATS A HUGE ONE" or "MAN , THIS IS A GREAT SPOT" and when you look out the shanty ... they start creeping in like vultures .

[Lyle7289]

Nice catch my friend. I am outta here in a few in hopes of bringing a bucket of those home too!! :D

Again, nice catch and thanks for sharing!

[filet-o-don]

when i am catching dinks, i yell like i am catching big ones, then i leave the spot when all the dumb A%^ crowd me, you should see the looks i get:rant:

[IceJigger]

Mark,

Tried to send pm... don't know what happened. I went out from the Day Sail at Metro. I walked towards Huron Point to get away from the crowd. Only lasted about 90 minutes then people started leap frogging towards & past me. There are fish there, you just need to get away from the crowd.

[IceJigger]

I was in a shanty, fishing quietly all by myself. It was great for awhile then I was surrounded & it died. :(