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Wow what a relentless winter mother nature has thrown at us. I can honestly say this is the slowest winter in quite a few years for me. I know the best months are ahead though, March and April always bring tremendous fishing. But I'd like to hear from those have been out!

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I have been hitting it hard every weekend since January and I have yet to get on the fish like usual. Have yet to catch my limit anywhere! going to brave the cold this weekend again since it is my last time to get out until April 1st... hopefully switching from eyes to panfish will help me produce some more fish! Lakes include : two inlets, toad, detroit, sand, little toad.

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I have been hitting it hard every weekend since January and I have yet to get on the fish like usual. Have yet to catch my limit anywhere! going to brave the cold this weekend again since it is my last time to get out until April 1st... hopefully switching from eyes to panfish will help me produce some more fish! Lakes include : two inlets, toad, detroit, sand, little toad.

You will need a snowmobile to get on Little Toad.When I was there a few weeks ago the road to the approach was blocked with snow.

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I hear this alot from so many different people and wondering what presentation you use and depth you guys fish. I fish hard every winter for panfish, 3-5 times a week including this winter and I would have to say this is one of the best ice fishing winters I have had. 18-27 feet of water, lots of structure with 1/8 oz jigging spoons seems to be the go to for big gills and crappies.

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We found the mother load in 17-20' Sunday. I normally use tungsten jig tipped with waxie in one hole and a minnow under a bobber in another hole but Sunday I did use a small chartreuse lindy frosty spoon hooked with a plastic clam spiky and it was the ticket. Good Luck!

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bbfenatic, on Fri I went up to that lake "up North" that you told me about. We caught about a dozen smallish crappies and a few gills. We saw plenty of fish on the camera, but I had a heck of a time getting them to bite. It was a fun day on the ice though!!!

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I fished a little slough on sunday and smoked the crappies at dark(small ones) on the breakline. Fished my hotspot from last year that produced many crappies 14-16 inches last night and caught nothing but walleyes. Im gathering my thoughts tonight and gonna try something different tomorrow.

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Scoot:

Went Sunday with a group to same spot and it was lights out, fished a little deeper than I saw where you setup. Jim thinks about 75 crappies...I think it was a few more than that....Nothing huge but man did they have the feed bag on...it was fastest one up to the lure got hooked....one after the other. Fun evening for sure.

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Sounds like a blast! Unfortunately we had to leave right at about the time when I'd have expected the crappies to really get going. Maybe if we'd have stayed a little longer we could have hit a big run. Who knows...

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I've started to fish pretty often now, Id say the bite is pretty steady! BB, that was a pretty exciting bite the other night, Scoot, the kids would enjoy the heck out of that action... I hit up a different lake the other night and nailed some big girls. The biggest one was just over 15" caught by my bud.

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Is there alot of water/slush on top of the ice?

Yes, I was rather surprised but I guess with the sun so strong now it is really making a mess, wish I had worn my knee high rubber boots but now I won't even consider anything else rest of the year.

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I've been out chasing tulibees but the action has been really slow. Did get enough to smoke dang they're good. Hey Jim how close was that lake to me?? PM me if you want smile

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Good work fellas! Jim, great pics!!! Between work, my wife's work schedule, and kid-related stuff I'm pretty well hosed for the rest of the season. My basement project is screaming my name every weekend it seems. Oh well, get stuff done now so I can spend more time in the boat this Summer...

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    • leech~~
      Nope not me.  May want to go nextdoor and ask around?  
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    • SkunkedAgain
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    • CigarGuy
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