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A few friends and I fished Anchor Bay off of the DNR ramp in Fair Haven on Monday. Luckily we had shanties to fish in or the wind chill would have taken its toll on us in no time. Many people were driving their cars and trucks on the ice and were doing so, surprisingly, quite a way out on the lake. The ice was approximatly ten inches thick.
The water was gin clear in the lake. After we determined which way the perch were moving we set up an Aqua Vue camera to watch for incoming fish. We had school after school of perch of all sizes cruise through our holes. We were using everything from "Ken's Spoons" to tiny teardrops tipped with wigglers, mousies or minnows in various combinations and we could not convince them to bite on a consistant basis. They would cruise right up to the baits and some would check them out and turn right away and others would ignore them all together. We ended up with about 15 good size perch. When cleaned it was found that they had nothing in their stomachs. This could mean that they will be turning on the bite very soon.
I think part of the problem may have been the gin clear water. Those that did bite did so on a rush from a distance. Few took the bait after looking it over close up possibly being spooked by the hardware holding the bait. I don't still understand what was going on but offer my cents for your ideas.
Jim
ps, with any luck Pauli will grace this post with a one of her artfull reminders of the upcoming delights of the summer on LSC like she has othe ice fishing reports....maybe.
The water was gin clear in the lake. After we determined which way the perch were moving we set up an Aqua Vue camera to watch for incoming fish. We had school after school of perch of all sizes cruise through our holes. We were using everything from "Ken's Spoons" to tiny teardrops tipped with wigglers, mousies or minnows in various combinations and we could not convince them to bite on a consistant basis. They would cruise right up to the baits and some would check them out and turn right away and others would ignore them all together. We ended up with about 15 good size perch. When cleaned it was found that they had nothing in their stomachs. This could mean that they will be turning on the bite very soon.
I think part of the problem may have been the gin clear water. Those that did bite did so on a rush from a distance. Few took the bait after looking it over close up possibly being spooked by the hardware holding the bait. I don't still understand what was going on but offer my cents for your ideas.
Jim
ps, with any luck Pauli will grace this post with a one of her artfull reminders of the upcoming delights of the summer on LSC like she has othe ice fishing reports....maybe.