12-27 report!

[mondrella]

Hit the ice on a local lake this afternoon. Was on the ice by 3:30 and off by 5:30. A warning to all if you are not around the lake and know how the ice is progressing be extremely careful. My dad and I hit a lake we know very well and how the ice forms very well on it. We made it out to a productive spot in 16' of water and the instant I set the transducer in the hole was marking suspended fish 2' off the bottom. On this lake that is a very good sign. I baited up and sent my teardrop on its way. by the time the bait hit the 10' mark fish were on thier way up. I instantly had one on once the 2 lines met on the flasher.:cool: Turned out to be a very productive afternoon. I released close to 40 nice gills and kept a limit of eaters. The smallest kept 71/4" the largest 81/2". I released about 10 that would have easily streached the tape to 9". The ice was only 2" of good stuff and 1 of honeycomb. If you are unfamilar with certain lakes you good easily get dunked by walking onto 3" of the honeycomb stuff.
So be careful.

Another mess of gills

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[Connor4501]

Nice catch!!! And doing the selective harvest thing is always a good thing to help maintain a top notch panfishery:)

[grizzlyadams73]

what kind of scent?

[mike h]

Way to go those are some nice Gills...:D :D :D

[scottfree]

congrats!!! those look yummy....can't wait till the ice is solid here locally. man those make me want to fish fish fish!!..

[slowpoke]

Nice catch. Wish I was with you.

[mondrella]

What a tasty meal a few of them made. I froze quite a few for when my wifes grandma comes up for a visit. She loves fish. I was hoping to have fresh ones for her but the ice really took a hit today and she will be here in a week. I have had 3 great weeks of ice fishing. My wife was thrilled this morning when I could not get on any lakes. She is tired of having fish 4 or five times a week. I don't get it I can eat gills like candy everday. So far this ice season I have brought home a total of 247 gills. I have released close to twice that many that would be fit for the fry pan. Twenty of them from this mess are the first to see the freezer this year.

Grizzly I only use waxworms. teardrop in green and yellow was the ticket. Color was probably not to important the way they were hitting.