First off I want to give Dannie at Outdoor Authority a shout out as his service was fantastic when conditions were tough with deep snow, no vehicles allowed on the ice and frigid temps. Sunday morning temp.at 7:30 a.m. was -36F. Burrrrr.
Quick report…
Saturday morning we struck off on the wheeler and stuck close to the herd of other portables because I didn’t want to fight the deep snow. The effort resulted in only a few fish so was made the decision to move away from the crowds at about noon. I didn’t want to blaze a new trail so I found a track leading to the direction I wanted to go. About a mile and a half later I broke off the trail and made a new track for about a quarter mile to the spot I wanted to fish. We set up in about 9-10 feet of water and were greeted quickly with fish. Tyler and I fished this spot until dark pulling about 20 fish or so. The majority were in the 16-18 inch range with a few in that 20-21 inch range. Both bobber and jig fishing were taking fish about equally.
Sunday morning was cold and we had a late start as the wheeler didn’t want to start. Dannie was nice enough to tow us to shore where I jumped the wheeler from my truck. It took a while to get it going, but it did finally start. We returned to the spot we were at the previous afternoon, but it was mid/late morning. We set up and again found fish. It was a little slower action wise, but we were getting fish. The highlight was the northern that took Tyler’s bobber rod. It smashed his minnow as we heard the bobber make a “pop” sound when it went under the water. He took a few nice runs and eventually found the hole.
We had a good trip. The snow is deep and travel is tough but doable with a 4-wheeler. We didn’t encounter any slush. You just need to be patient when traveling and have a shovel handy incase it’s needed.
