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Illinois => Ice Fishing Illinois => Topic started by: boscolab on Dec 30, 2017, 05:35 PM
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Didn’t want to risk the drive down to Evergreen. So i settled for a local 1.5 acre pond. Drilled over 12fow and found some fish. They needed a lot of jigging to get them to come up. Banging the bottom with a lil Cecil got fish to come in when the screen would go blank.
Hooked a few on a hand tied ice fly too.
Might have to sit out the rest of the weekend. The temps are going to be dangerously cold.
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Better than nothing. I wanted to get out around the holidays but temps were just too rough for me, especially w/o a shelter. Hoping to be back from Chi early enough on Sunday to put some quality time on the hard stuff.
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I was at Evergreen Sunday. Got the skunk. Fished over by WPC in 13 fow. Had 5 inches of ice.
Evergreen lake either pays out big, or kicks my azz. It is never in between.
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What does WPC stand for at Evergreen?
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White Pines Cove
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Awesome...thanks!! I'm with you on evergreen..it is hit it miss. I may try it this weekend.
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My buddy and I hit Evergreen on Monday evening for about two hours. We fished the cove just south of WPC. Fished 7 FOW got 8-9 small gills. Fish were there but not interested too much. I can not seem to figure Evergreen out no matter what season it is! Just got to keep trying a suppose.
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There once was a guy, who always caught fish at E. He has since left us and it seems the fish
too.
He always told me, when you think you are fishing too shallow, try a little shallower.
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I will be hitting evergreen tomorrow or Saturday. How thick was the ice? I will be fishing deep ;)
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Tony the ice was 5 inches on New year's day. That was in a shallow cove, fished 7 fow. Good luck. My dad and I maybe out Saturday morning.
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Awesome thanks! If I go tomorrow I'll let u know how I do.
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I may try tomorrow and or Sunday. Would like to meet some of you guys.
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My dad and I will be out tomorrow in a two man red flip up. I can't decide on the west end or deer island yet. Leaning toward the west end/dam area. We will see!
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There once was a guy, who always caught fish at E. He has since left us and it seems the fish
too.
He always told me, when you think you are fishing too shallow, try a little shallower.
Bluefloyd?
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Bluefloyd?
Bingo!
Hello Uplandk9. How have you been?
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Been pretty good. First year we’ve had good enough ice for me. We were considering a trip to Bloomington last Sunday but the freezing rain scared us away.
Doesn’t look like we are missing much down there yet.