Made it out on a lake this afternoon with a few buddies Just south of Minneapolis and had a blast catching crappies and gills over deep water! Its been awhile since ive got into a good panfish bite so this was pretty cool! For awhile it was literally one after another as fast as you could catch em! The TUC noodle got its first real workout of the year. This is coming from a walleye guy, but wow is that one nice rod! Watching that bite happen on your rod tip is underrated in my book!
Deep holes in the 20 to 35 foot depths are where we found the fish. Crappies and Gills were mixed in with eachother and they were hungry and willing to eat! A pink shrimpo from CJS is what i was using with no bait. Fishing outside, this is an awesome bait as you catch a fish, unhook, and send it back down, there is no need to rebait!
These fish would move in and out in schools and when they were in they were everywhere! This is when the vertical zoom feature on the LX-7 would shine. I had no problem picking out individual fish to target amongst the masses.
Ice conditions were okay, still some spots of open water so be careful, but majority of the places had 3 to 4 inches of ice.
