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johnandrew@centurytel.net 715-892-3020
(“NO FISH NO PAY, GUARANTEED”.)
12-22-19
A special Christmas thank you to all for your our ongoing and continuing support. Your positive e-mails, positive written letters and personal conversations are over whelming. We look forward to the day. God Bless to all and Merry Christmas.
The warm spell is helping our fishing tremendously and, is helping our slush problem. As the surface snow continues to melt down on top of our lakes the cold night temps continue to reduce the slush.
We are producing all over the depth chart, depending which lake I am on. As past, wood and weeds are extremely productive, 6 to 13 ft in some locations. Deep clear lakes is deep wood, for us.
Gills mostly with some Perch and Crappie with a Large Mouth Bass to excite the outing. Wax worms but, small pieces of crawler have been very good for us this ice season. For those of you that fish lakes with no boat landings, simply pick a point or weed area, drill and catch.
Lets talk big baits, yes, big baits for Pan Fish in our local public boat landing lakes. I have been using 1/32 oz and smaller lures for decades, as most. But, in early ice and some later conditions, in the past several years big baits work very well and for the bigger Pan Fish. Lots of ice to cover so, I will try to do my best in a paragraph.
Multiple micro spoons, 1 in. in multiple colors work tipped with Berkley “Max Scent” and others, Wax worms, Minnow heads and other pieces of bait. Multiple 1 in. or less minnow baits, Salmos or Jigging Raps are deadly. Our best is, a tiny sinking Rapala (an iconic bait) is fantastic. A valuable tip, the Rapala trebles need to be increased by 1 size to maintain the hooking quality and lifting out of the whole. A (“Fishing Elevator”) is also extremely efficient lifting the fish out of the whole, (not sure if they are on the market.) We have had 2 Proto Types in the last 8 years and nothing developed so far is better. When fishing in 20 ft or less, (when using 2 lb mono) do not add a split shot. We will get back to these conversations in the next few posts
Our Walleye are and mostly will be (for now) from 3 to 22 ft deep on tip ups, later this winter on certain lakes, they will be in very deep water and, we are done before sunset, which some fisherman have not done. Later posts.
Pike with Golden Shiners is best (for us) a thin 20 lb steel, 7 strand leader is good and, as most, we use colored trebles.Weeds and Pike are best, with an occasional Pike away from the weeds does happen.
These reports are client related, not from outside sources.
As always, stay positive, think clearly, do not listen to negative talk and do not listen to negative people.
God Bless
John Andrew