Well I went to my favorite small rainbow factory for my first ice trip this year. Usually at this lake I catch 50 - 100 foot long dinks here. But the meat is orange red and fantastic because of the freshwater shrimp and crayfish diet. This lake always has big fish though.
Well today the fishing was tough, we only caught 27 all day between the three of us. But low and behold, all but two were between 2 and 4 pounds. We were fishing ratsos, stingers, or deadsticked crawlers. We tipped the lures with crawler pieces too. We were in 15 - 25 feet of water and most fish were coming in at 8 - 15 feet. Would have probably caught only a couple were it not for our vexilars.
I was happy. I would rather catch 10 two to 4 pounders than 100 half pounders. Will post pics when developed.
Tyler
