Lake Carmi

[fishingbub6]

Has anyone checked out Lake Carmi for conditions how is it looking up there? my grandpa has a camp up there and I wanna try fishing it this winter, used to fish it all the time in the summer when I was younger. 

[Smelty88]

Drove by on my way home from work this morning, WIDE OPEN!

[egagne]

Starting tomorrow night temps are below freezing for the while week.

[Vtgooseman]

The last 3 years Ive fished Carmi on the 24th of Dec or before.  Not looking like Ill waste my time this year with the catch rates from this summer.  Maybe the state will take a good look at it and see something needs to be done before all of the Walleye are gone. 

[Vtgooseman]

Yes, 100% overfished.  The Perch catches are way down as well.  Now guys are catching Crappie, Bowfin and other non native fish there.  Not to mention the big population of Alewife.

[jonny jigger]

when did they start catching bow fins and crappie i ice fish that lake all winter just about every day never heard of that. a problem people have catching perch there if you don't know how to fish them or don't have good electronics your wasting your time. same with the walleyes if u don't know were to fish for them and how or what time of day u wont catch many . on first ice i will catch 8-10 a day for 3 weeks until they move off same with the perch limit every day.

[ruby slipper]

when did they start catching bow fins and crappie i ice fish that lake all winter just about every day never heard of that. a problem people have catching perch there if you don't know how to fish them or don't have good electronics your wasting your time. same with the walleyes if u don't know were to fish for them and how or what time of day u wont catch many . on first ice i will catch 8-10 a day for 3 weeks until they move off same with the perch limit every day.

I've never seen a bowfin there but have caught and seen some nice crappies come from there. Seems like a tricking place to fish though.

[jonny jigger]

it is but once u learn how to fish it you will pull some big fish out last year i caught 2 walleyes 7 pounds and lost one well over 10 jigging perch. one thing i learned there  your wasting your time with tip up 

[ruby slipper]

it is but once u learn how to fish it you will pull some big fish out last year i caught 2 walleyes 7 pounds and lost one well over 10 jigging perch. one thing i learned there  your wasting your time with tip up 

Sweet. When we going?!? Haha

[Vtgooseman]

You may be right but its not the first time Ive fished that lake.......  just a year ago I could go up there and catch 40-50 walleye a day sumer time and jig well over 20 ice fishing not to mention limits of perch.  No BS.  Check old threads.  Those days are gone.  Maybe folks just need to make adjustments to fish deep water to target the suspended alewife but most wont think into it that far.

[ruby slipper]

You may be right but its not the first time Ive fished that lake.......  just a year ago I could go up there and catch 40-50 walleye a day sumer time and jig well over 20 ice fishing not to mention limits of perch.  No BS.  Check old threads.  Those days are gone.  Maybe folks just need to make adjustments to fish deep water to target the suspended alewife but most wont think into it that far.

You're handsome.

[jonny jigger]

what i found is that there a cretin  point and islands with out good electronics you wont find them  but the fish are still there. just like last winter  the fish were every were but if you did not have what they wanted u didn't catch nothing. hopefully be fishing there soon

[Vtgooseman]

Yes, those Perch can be very finicky.  Most my the Perch from last year came in 30 FOW on a big basin flat.  Match the hatch. 

[Smelty88]

was hard to tell from up above but it looked like the lake has iced completely over couldnt have been very thick but did look like it had iced!

[jonny jigger]

yes checked it yesterday skim  of ice will suck if we get that big storm was hoping to fish it this week end minus 3 at the house today there finely freezing

[vtwaterfowler]

i drove up to the state park today to see what there was, and it was locked up all the way across. give it a few days to get a little thicker and it will be safe

[Smelty88]

going to stop by on my way home from work this morning and see if i cant poke a couple holes by beach side to see where its at!