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Went out to Thompson Lake yesterday, the ice is the thickest ive ever seen it this late. I caught a bunch of perch but the pike fishing was terribly slow I didnt even get one flag on a tip up. Water is very brown. Ive heard that Chatcolet Lake was producing some pike has anybody been out there? If so where have people been fishing them?
I hit Coccalla yesterday for 2 hours and it was hot. I caught well over 60. I gave a guy that wasnt to far from me my biggest ones all 10 inches or bigger. I would have given him more but it was all he wanted to Filet. I think I gave him about 7 or so. The average was pretty good though. All the big ones were caught up off the bottom. I was finding the perch all over the water column. Every where from 6 feet below the ice all the way to the bottom. Some were hugging hte bottom but the ones that did were all small. The big girls were up of the bottom feeding. Funny thing about them was there were tons of one eyed fish. My bucket was half full of fish with one eye and even a few blind ones. Wierd. I only used one worm all day. Also I dont recomend buying an HT Ice Blues IB-24 ice combo they can not handle alot of fishing. The first two times I have taken it out I have snaped the tip off. And fixed it but yesterday it snapped in the middle of the rod. I have only used it three trips this year. They are a piece of crap. I will stick with the Ugly stick from now on.