Will sun shining down the hole on a sunny day have negative effects, when the ice/snow cover is thick enough to limit light penetration?

When I sold my boat I had him come to my bank with a cert. bank check. Let the bank check that its good, then sign the title.

A guy down this way just got took 5k on a 4 wheeler. He sold it to someone for cash, ended up being all counterfit!

Got out again today. Water temp is still around 33-34 degrees. Ended up with 5 today, but I bet I missed that many more. Only one 18″ keeper, the rest were over 20, with one very fat 23″ female.

I didn’t try hair to much today, as they were crushing a 5″ grub on a gold glitter hutch jig.
I did get a few fish dragging jigs up shallow this evening, in about 10′ so thats a good sign. Back at it again tomorrow, will report.

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Total=16.8
BF=7.4

I have an Alumacraft Navigator 165 tiller. Its a nice boat and fishes 3 pretty easy with the 91″ beam. I had an older Alumacraft with the narrower 80″ beam, and the extra width makes a huge difference. My only recomendation would be to put atleast a 70 or 75hp on it. I have a 60 Merc and its slow with more than one person.

I think you can get more boat from Alumacraft for the same price.

Good luck, Im in a similar situation, and things do seem to get better with time. Hopefully the same happens for you.

As was stated, document everything. A good website to check out is iowafathers.com, I know its iowa based but there are some things on there that you might be able to relate to.

Thanks for the report Bos. Sorry to hear about the motor, hopefully your back on the water soon.

I think I have the same one as Rootski. My only complaint is I wish you could lock the seat in position from spinning. Cabelas sells a fancy one for like 200 that looks nice, but I couldn’t justify dropping that much coin.

I went up today, and they bit pretty well. Kept about 30 of the bigger ones. The wind made it a challenge though.

I just bought a St. croix mojo bass 7′ MH that looks like it should be sweet for casting wing dams. I hope to get out this weekend and try it. Now if my i pilot would just show up I’d be set

Good luck Steve, I look forward to your report. I need to get back out that way soon!

I fished yesterday some, but mostly just tried out the new boat. Had probably a dozen walleyes trolling sloughs, but only two were legal. Water temp was around 57. Good luck, I may try it on Saturday.

Tell ya what Dave, I’ll buy the crawlers if you buy the gas

I’ve seen it done and it does work well, but be carefull, Don’t want to hear about you on 1000 ways to die.

I was in the same boat, and ended up breaking down and buying new. (Hope to pick it up tomorrow)

Once in awhile there are some boats on k-bid.com, just a thought.

Per the Dnr report the ramps useable. You could call the gas station in town, J&L’s, they would know.

Thanks for the update, saves me a trip this weekend.

Lawrence, did you cross above the dam and it was cracking? I was out yesterday and it was still in good shape, but there pulling water through at a good rate, so it wont take long to be unsafe.

Thanks for the update.

Nice fish Bos. Is there still much of a tip up bite going on up that way?

Awesome fish! Especially through the ice, way to go man!

Brian, I echo your post. I found similar results on pool 9 as well. Not sure what the deal was.

I’m just glad to hear you found some good ones! I sure hope we can get back to the good old days.

Hopefully we cross paths this weekend! (pms welcome )

Happy B-day buddy!

Nice report Bos. How is the water clarity, it looks pretty good in your pictures. I was up last Thursday, and man was it dirty!

Thanks for the report Lawrence. I hope to get out later this week into next week, things should pick up I hope.

Nice job guys!

That thing almost looks deformed!

Nice job!

Good luck, I plan to get out tomorrow afternoon to.

Sorry to hear that Dan. Hopefully things turn around for you soon.