So I saw that the wind would be the least today so I got on the ice at 9:30. The bait situation is not the best. All she had was small shiners for perch bait and some not much bigger for pike bait.
Anyway, there was no wind at all and it was a glorious day on the ice. The edge at the ramp at Tabor's Point is all healed over and solid. Just don't walk next to the rocks; it was open by the end of the day.
I set up in the same spot and then went out to 12' feet of water to start jigging. The bite started on the very first minnow down the hole and it was fast and furious, one right after the other, and some not waiting until it got to the bottom, right up to almost noon time and they stopped dead and then BAM, I got a hard hit but nothing else and then BAM again and my arm got jerked down and then PING, that was it, she left with my perch hook in her.
Then it was kind of slow for awhile and I thought maybe it was due to the first day of spring, the equinox. Then about 2:00 it started again and was one right after another and all good sized (I only had less than a dozen dinks all day) and then suddenly stopped so I knew there was another pike down there. Then I had three flags at the same time; lost the first one and then got this little one but what a fighter in those rocks! The third one was stripped bare.
There's at least 15' of solid ice out there and the walking wasn't too bad with about 6' of snow on top but on the way off it had frozen over and got really slippery. Four other guys on the ice, one said he'd been there all day since 6:00 and only got 16 perch; another agreed. The two Quebecers seemed to be hauling in lots of little ones.
They're all cleaned and in the fridge; nice batch, only had two I threw away, loaded with worms, really loaded, almost made me sick, never so many in one fish before.
On the way home I snapped this of the geese at Charcoal Creek.
