Another great morning somewhere North of the "widow maker"

[Bigassbassman]

How's the slush situation...   

[SLAYERFISH]

How's the slush situation...   

Deep slush, sketchy ice, weak edges. I wouldn't go near that place-

[Bigassbassman]

Deep slush, sketchy ice, weak edges. I wouldn't go near that place-

Ok, yeah.  That's what I thought...

[Flies4life]

A couple Golden perch today

[SLAYERFISH]

A couple Golden perch today

Ha!  Perch eat better anyhow--

[IFF]

When it comes to gills, of 1 to 1.35#, no way in hell would I tell anyone where.  The only one that gets to go with she watches from the car. In case I go for a swim 

[SLAYERFISH]

Grinded these out today. 1230-530.  Got these 5 from 430-510. 5 hits 5 perch.




The widowmaker is still there!

[badgerx]

Nice job Mike. Back to late afternoon action.
5 perch, 5+pounds?

[Pitbull44]

Fatties! How thick was the ice?

[SLAYERFISH]

Fatties! How thick was the ice?

2" slush, 4" soft ice.

[Pitbull44]

thanks, this cold front will help!

[SLAYERFISH]

thanks, this cold front will help!

Yah That ice would not have lasted much longer with those warm winds a blowin-

[SDPerchPounder]

Nice lookin' nuggets!

[Bigassbassman]

Sweet!  Looks like a nice school of them came through.  As usual, just gotta find them, or let them come to you.

That widow maker is still freakin scary...hopefully with this cold, the death ice will stay away a little longer.  Be careful out there Friday, gents!

[SLAYERFISH]

Nate it was those 5 from 5 different holes in a 150' radius.  I had to jig em up. Then they'd go down. Up down up down then when they finally hit it was a solid thump. I hadnt marked but 2 or 3 fish all day prior to these.

Me Bro  and Ray drilled at least 200 holes fished  from  open water to widowmaker and then back to open water along east side then fished open water to big trees on west side then I went back to widowmaker again.

Lotta work for 5 perch but still better than working!

[Bigassbassman]

Nate it was those 5 from 5 different holes in a 150' radius.  I had to jig em up. Then they'd go down. Up down up down then when they finally hit it was a solid thump. I hadnt marked but 2 or 3 fish all day prior to these.

Me Bro  and Ray drilled at least 200 holes fished  from  open water to widowmaker and then back to open water along east side then fished open water to big trees on west side then I went back to widowmaker again.

Lotta work for 5 perch but still better than working!

Seems like a bunch of lone wolves, cruisin the depths.  Curious, have you drilled in shallow? Say in the 15-5 fow range?  I wonder if some of the schools (or at least groups of 5-10 fish) could be starting to stage in shallower water to get ready for the spawn?  When Shaun and I fished up North, we found many of the nicer fish (and good numbers) were in 4-6 fow.

[SLAYERFISH]

I have not gone shallower than 24 feet.

[JohnnyO19]

Me Bro  and Ray drilled at least 200 holes fished  from  open water to widowmaker and then back to open water along east side then fished open water to big trees on west side then I went back to widowmaker again.

Lotta work for 5 perch but still better than working!

That's how it was for us on Sunday, Stu & I searched up & down that whole area for 1 perch. It was pretty windy, so we bailed by 10. I think FishSlap cleaned out the place on Saturday   

[fishslap]

That's how it was for us on Sunday, Stu & I searched up & down that whole area for 1 perch. It was pretty windy, so we bailed by 10. I think FishSlap cleaned out the place on Saturday   

I deserved it    I always get out fished by the rest of the crew after we go for the long hike.

[IFF]

Everyone giving up on the Widowmaker or north ??

[SLAYERFISH]

Everyone giving up on the Widowmaker or north ??

Stu was out there with the Panoptic guy Sunday. They found absolutely nothing. If they ain't there you ain't gonna catch them.

I did miss a couple at Widowmaker Thursday-