Monday we had rain and temperature hovered around 42 all day. Tuesday we had light snow and we had snow flurries all day. A few spots I checked, you could not get on the ice to check thickness. Today Wednesday the temperature as risen to 32 for most of the day with a late day flurry.
I was able to get on to Sunday's spot, checked the ice carefully as there was open water in spots. I measured about 3.75 inches of solid black ice. While fishing was not as fast and furious as Sunday, it was still very good. Only one line had zero hits all day, while the next one to it had over 30 flags. Like the other day, the first fish iced was a bass in the 1.5# category. To produced a plethora of perch, 4 bass with the largest at 4# and 2 pickerel, largest 21".
There was a great blue heron on the ice several hundred yards away, when he saw me ice a fish, he moved to within 50 yards. M6y next fish was a 6" perch that had swallowed the hook and was bleeding. I tossed the fish further out and moved away from the area and sure enough the heron came over and took the fish. The then walked over to my tip up and waited, but flew off when the flag went up. another perch which I threw out. I barely turned my back when the heron came flying back to take this 7-8" perch. He flew off with it to work on getting lined up and down the gullet.
