My number one fishing buddy (son) and I made it to Gull this morning. On the ice and set up by 0815. Would have been fishing sooner but pulled the old "Jiffy" out of the back the truck and the plug was broken
. Must have taken a bad bouncy on one of the many speed bumps on our highways (frost heaves). Good thing we always take the trusty 6" hand auger. Anyway, hand drilled a few holes (or at least my number one fishing buddy did
) - dropped the camera down and was pleasantly surprised.... we landed right on top of a feeding frenzy of perch. Only the really small ones seemed to be biting but never the less it was whack of fun just watching them on the camera and trying to keep the little guys off the hook in hopes of a bigger one, and they were there. All this lasted about 1hr then WAM.... the gators came in for a feed.... I never saw a school of perch run so fast. My fishing buddy managed to hook a couple only to loose them in the tight 6" hole but, did manage to land the one in the picture. One even took a comp at the camera - as it is shaped and coloured like a perch. Overall a great day, the action slowed as the morning went on but just seeing all the species on the cam was well worth the 5 am wake-up. We thinks we will do it all over again tomorrow..... got a new spark plug.
