Backwater Brawl Feb 19th 8am to......FREEE

[Deitz Dittrich]

3 foots deep... yikes.. thats shallow fishing...

This is going to be a very new expierience for me, as I have never fished a river backwater while standing on ice!... I really hope to pick up a few tips from Crappie Tom and Matt Johnson... as well as trying to adapt things that have worked for me on lakes and apply them to backwaters... Should be a ton of fun...

[jiggin pig]

wondering what they were hittin on down there on saturday. Looks like it was a blast. i had to miss it due to a wedding.

[Dan Thiem]

J.P.

Waxies were the common bait as were eurolarve and spikes. Some nice perch on crappie minnows aere also taken.

There was a local dude that made his own rods. They were pretty unique as the line went through the middle of the rod blank. It came out the tip and then went through a spring bobber. He taught school down there, out fishing everyone at least 5:1. He had a little black ant type jig tipped with a waxie.

Are you thinking about heading down there to try it out?

[jiggin pig]

yeah, i will be down there by 1000am and there till about 3pm. I will be in a yellow columbia. Just look for a brown chevy Cavelier (POS). Or i will be in my green eskimo portable.

[JIvers]

Sounds like a good time--I wish I could have made it. Hopefully next year I'll get to meet some of you guys.

[juggs]

Did I miss a report on the brawl somewhere? How was the fishing?

[Dan Thiem]

Hey Juggs,

Fishing was excellent! We had a steady bite all day with mostly smaller perch and gills. I did see a 14" and a couple 12"+ crappies. Also a few perch that went around the 10"-11" size. Also I saw a couple of rock bass crossed with a sunnie. I heard someone call them shellcrackers and I heard someone else call them warmouths. Different looking thats for sure.

[juggs]

Good to hear. I fish that area a lot but haven't been to Pontoon in a while. My first year there was great, especially at last ice.