Well, I haven't had the best luck out on the ice in the last month to say the least. I decided to hit a pond that's been on my mind lately. There was about 2" of slush and water lying on top of about 6 -7" of good Ice.
raised the pucker factor to about a 6
I drilled 12 holes, then start looking with the x67. First hole I tried, nothing 5.8 ft. second hole, 6.8 ft, cought one gill right away, then a lg.mouth about 13" long. Then the hole went dead. So on to the third hole. 6.1 ft. Lots of marks. I cought ruffly 20 or so gills, 7 crappies.....and something big that got away with one of my jammin jigs AARRRHHH.....LOL. Never left that hole.
fish were cought on Jammin jigs neon Bobber fry, red glow......until it was so wrongly taken then a white/blue glow. tipped with waxies. cought fish from bottom all the way up to two ft under me. crappies seemed to respond about a foot of bottom to 3ft.
Gotta say it was a good moral booster for me!! the pond I was fishing is a 10 sunfish limit so, I kept two crappie and 7 gills.
Now to the dishearting part........ I was cleaning those gills and every one of them looks like this. crappies were fine, What in the heck is it?
The last one I was filleting had this white worm looking thing crawling out of the flesh......what the heck??
Well I pitched the one with the white worm crawling around, but waiting to here about the black spots . I figure it's a parisitite of some type.
Jason