Victoria Ice Report

[Strippitboy]

Going to Victoria,IL this weekend. Just checking to see if anyone has a ice report.
Thanks,
Strippitboy

[harpenter]

Haven't been to the Victoria strip pits, but Lake Storey in Galesburg was around a foot thick.  Good luck in the pits.  I've always wanted to get down there and fish them.

[Strippitboy]

Thx harpenter for the info. The pits are nice in victoria. There is a bait shop in town and they may have some info on public pits.

[74redone]

The bait shop in town is called the depot. Its number is 309-879-2401. From past experiences I'm not sure how much stock I would put into what they tell you there. We had a guy tell us the crappies were so big they were scaring the guys when they came out of the hole! He said they were all 12-14". We went and fish the hotspot and caught a lot of crappies! I'm pretty sure if we put 3 of them end to end we would of had 1 12" crappie! I have fished Snakeden and caught some really nice crappies but it does not open till the 1st of Feb.
 Good luck and be safe!

[toph2o]

ice near Victoria was about 8 in deep with 2in of frozen  white snow on top,  fish were in 16 feet,  but around cover. hitting wax worms. caught 7 nice crappie  12 in long. many small bass and some  nice gills.  kind of nice fishing in 40 degree  weather

[tbirdbassr]

When is that? Is it only McMaster that is closed?

[Crfergus]

I know the drill about some people not wanting to disclose their spots but I really want to go down there after Feb 1st and try it.  Does anyone know if I should concentrate on the main lake or venture to some of the other strip pits?

[toph2o]

www.larry'sfishinghole.com  tells when snakesden opens . something about letting the geese have a quiet spot?? they have a small limit  of fish you can take. used to be only 5 crappie

[Crfergus]

any idea if most of the ponds have fish in them or should I concentrate on McMaster?

[hnd]

they all have fish in them.  some are obviously better than others.

[njohnson2004]

All of snake den is closed. There are other public lakes around Victoria that don't close

[guy]

did you get out strippitboy - if so how did you do ?

[Crfergus]

Going to Victoria,IL this weekend. Just checking to see if anyone has a ice report.
Thanks,
Strippitboy

Make it out?

[njohnson2004]

I made it out Sunday to a private club just out side Victoria fishing was slow

[Strippitboy]

Yes I made it out. Had 10 plus inches of ice. Fishing was a bit slow but the bite picked up right before dark on Saturday 1-18-14 but ended up with 25 bullgills and 14 small bass throw backs but it was still fun!!!
Going to try again this weekend and see how it goes.

[njohnson2004]

Strippitboy where have you been fishing if you dont mid me a asking?