Well we just got back from our annual christmas break trip to the cabin in lake tomahawk. fishing was pretty good with good weather throughout the trip.
we got up there on monday the 27 and i made it out to a community spot on lake minoqua that usually produces some crappies. well i only managed one nice 11″ crappie. a lot of lookers but they wouldnt bite.
Day 2- my dad and i hit a little pot hole lake that we have to our selves every time we fish it. we usually pound the crappies pretty good but they were a little tougher this year as we managed 4 nice crappies and i had a decent gill flop back into the hole. we used demon jigging spoons and glow diamond jigs to catch the crappies.
Day 3- on wednesday the 29th we went to a lake that produces a lot of northerns on tip-ups. it started off slow but as the day went on the action picked up and we iced about 12 northerns and we kept 8 of them, with my sister getting the biggest one at 26 inches. we also jigged for panfish and ended up catching some really nice perch and some bluegills. we caught the perch on clown gill pills with spikes and the northerns on shiners. i also caught a 25 inch northern on my st. croix ultra light and a glow diamond jig with spikes. 
Day 4- my dad and i decided to go back to the same lake. except this time we were after the perch as we brought tip downs with crappie minnows. they worked extremly well as we caught a ton of nice 9-10″ perch on them all day long. we also got some nice perch jigging again with gill pills and spikes. however the minnows seemed to work a little better. later on in the afternoon it started raining so we sat in the shack and a jig pole and watched the tip downs. it was pretty cool to watch 9-10″ perch come in and eat a minnow. i also put out 2 tip ups and ended up catching 6 northerns with a nice chunky 30 incher being the biggest. we ended up with 45 perch for the day. 
day 5- i went out by my self for a few hours. i hit up stacks bay on lake minoqua and i ended up icing about 15 gills and 1 northern on a tip up.
it was fun trip and i cant wait for next year to come. the weather was pretty good. warm and sunny most of the week except thursday when it rained. we found anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of ice depending on the lake we were on. when we left there was no snow on the ice and it was extremly slick.
