So today before work again I wanted to spend a few hours looking for lakers in Shelburne bay. I got on the ice at 730 and was fishing from 830 until 1130 this morning.
I walked out on the still hard packed snow out to Allen hill point and set up in 45 FOW and set my 4 tipups 2 feet off bottom with medium shiners from 30 FOW to 50 FOW
I had zero flags but did have 2 minnows stolen by perch.
for the 30 minutes I jigged for lakers before seeing a lot of perch on the vex I played with the usual 3 inch silver flake and white venom tube and also the orange and yellow airplane jig, tipped with a shiner fillet. No hits or sniffs, except by a perch
After jigging with my airplane jig I saw a lot of fish come up off the bottom. I switched over to a northland 3 inch red puppet minnow and started landing slab yellows 8-11 inches long. Also got into them with a smaller silver rapala puppet minnow or jigging rap. landed about a dozen all 8-11 inches if you were a serious perch guy and spent the day at it you probably could get half to 3/4 pail of that size fish. I was happy to see some decent size perch finally in Champlain, unfortunately no lake trout were marked or seen.
Ice was 16 inches or so and snow cover was firm and easy to walk on if you stay out of the truck tracks that dig up ruts in the snow.
