Travis, The Gut was 44 deg last weekend and we had a few big fish but overall slow bite. since then, don’t know much about what’s going on.

Nice perch Nick. I think I’m going to start a midnight stocking program in eastern iowa.

did you ever get out on 3 or 12? I’d like to read a report or two from those lakes. I bet 12 is fun this year with a ton of eater walleyes in there.

Thanks for the report. I’d love to come up and hit the ice up there some time. Are you guys fishing where the Clements fishing barge is? How’s the ice holding up?

good old “steroid slough”. how’d you know?

Matt’s 15.5″ black Crappie

My 15″ Crappie

Wiper

or get some hyfax runners from Otter Outdoors
Otter Hyfax Kit

some teflon runners would help you out. check out this website and search for teflon, then click on bars/strips, then select 1/2″ thick, cut to length, 1″ width. I think this is the same as hifax.

mcmaster-carr

I played with my new 55 last night for a couple hours and found the following:

In 15 fow I could see my diamond jig/spike very well with the narrow beam and gain setting of 8. If I switched to the wide beam I had to turn the gain up to 22 to see the jig. That is terrible!!

I’m sending it back and getting a LX-3 or LX-5 I think.

Nice gills Nick. Never caught one on corny. I have caught some nice crappies there in the late fall – any idea where they are in winter?

hit 3 solid ponds over the weekend ranging from 1.5 to 5 acres and they all had 2.5 to 4 inches of solid ice on them. Game on

yO JC how you been fella? I know that REZ spot!!!

Been a little slower the last couple nights but there have been a few 4-5 lb eyes and saugeyes showing up. I don’t know why they’ve slowed down or if they’ve moved or what but day to day can be hot and cold. Keep after ’em.

Luke, the size of the saugeyes this ice season is going to be very impressive!!

Nice report Nick. I’ve never fished Red Rock. I’d love to give it a try sometime. How clear/dirty was the water? I would love to be fishing the coralville res in my backyard but it’s so dirty the visibility is terrible. maybe it doesn’t matter as much as I think it does. Thanks!

Great segment Scott. Wow!! I didn’t realize it was 100K tourney… Way to go man.

Fluf, get any incidental walleyes?

there’s been some nice ones being caught on the west side of the 5 and 1 dam.

thanks guys. I don’t know what happened with my height – oh yeah I do, my mom’s 4’11”.

Open water. Seneca lake never freezes I don’t think. It’s over 600 ft deep. Crazy huh?

Let us know if there’s still a bite going with the dirty water. the iowa is choco milk now too

Nick, the cats are hitting your jigs? You’re not snagging them? Wow!!! Where are all the walleyes at?

Thanks for all the contact info and a great post. This is very important.

Luke, Yanda, John (Love2fish), bearplotts, and myself will be there early friday morning. See you guys there.

Andy

Yeah, it should be fine. Give me a call. Check your PM.

the kid that was slaughtering crappies last year got them on a small forage minnow in pink and blue. i can’t remember if it was the spoon style or tear drop style but it was definitely hot.

for perch, we just swiss cheesed the entire bay and killed em on jig n raps. bring a little bit of every lure in every color and you should be ok!!

last year was 11 days later. it should be good this year as well.

Guys. I think we have one spot open so bearplotts can get in. i think love2fish started a roll call somewhere but don’t know where. can someone point me in that direction?

Guys, I’m still not sure if I’ll have one or two not coming up. I’ll try to get a solid answer tomorrow.

I may end up w/ two openings. Bearplots will get one and you could have the other. I’ll let you know asap.

andy

I’ll try to find out this weekend for sure.

Thanks!