[ultangler]

Striper season is long gone, goose & duck is over, and there's snow on the ground, so... it must be ICE FISHING SEASON!!! Mollie and I made our first attempt of the year yesterday, and discovered 4" - 8" thick ice at Lake Marburg & 8" - 10" thick ice at Sheperd-Meyers.
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The bite was slow early but picked up, and we caught trout, bluegills, yellow perch, and crappie. Hot baits were glow-white micro-jigs tipped with minnow eyeballs. Most of the panfish we found were suspended over weedbeds, and the trout were cruising around open water.
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GOODBYE CABIN FEVER, HELLO FRESH FISH NUGGETS!

 

[Walleye Pete]

Next time you are going on the hard water give me a call....I've even got my own stuff left over from my upstate NY days.

 

[jhunt]

Minnow eyeballs? What self respecting trout could pass that by? Nice job.:thumbup:

 

[chickennecker]

Great report and nice picts, thanks for posting them. If that's Shep-Meyer, it looks like you had the place to yourselves.

Wish our Out O' States weren't so high, I sure miss fishing Shep-Meyer, the big hemlock forest along the road, always gave it a north woods feel.