Late ice Becker/Ottertail Co

[Chill62]

Well I've been busy and finally home to fish locally!!!

 

Saturday we hit a lake I haven't been on since deer hunting. Second spot we tried we found them! Gills and crappies were in 12 feet of water 2-3 feet below the ice. Ton of fish. Had to increase our size of presentation to deter smaller fish. 

 

Saturday night after a great lunch and most taking a nap we got back out. At the access guy flew buy us as we unloaded and dropped his suv into the ice. Had to get out his passenger side door to ask me to pull him out. Hey I made $5 pulling him out, $4 in quarters lol. Fishing was slow but if they came through the crappies inhaled the lures. I set the ladies up in the house but Katie was on fire, heard minnows were her secret. 

 

Sunday tried lake 3 of weekend. Drilled ton of holes from 5-12 feet and that 7-9 feet we found the huge gills and crappies. Kristen got a 9.75" gill and right as we were tearing down Scott landed 13.5" crappie. Color made huge difference and when I lost my pink plastic and put green on I quit catching them, switched back to pink and boom back to catching. 

 

Sorry if too many pictures. Scott and Kristen took amazing pictures and I stole them lol. The colors are amazing!!!

[Borch]

Gorgeous pics especially on those gills.  Looks like a nice return to your local lakes.   

[IceHawk]

Nice fish Cody looks like a great outing 

[monstermoose78]

Fun times and great photos 

[Chill62]

It felt amazing to be back "Home" and know that fish are in these areas drill holes and have marks down there!!!!  Was an absolute blast of a weekend.  Since my next two weekends have canceled due to the Virus I'm thinking its time to hit the lakes hard to enjoy late ice

[Rick]

10 hours ago, Chill62 said:

It felt amazing to be back "Home" and know that fish are in these areas drill holes and have marks down there!!!!  Was an absolute blast of a weekend.  Since my next two weekends have canceled due to the Virus I'm thinking its time to hit the lakes hard to enjoy late ice

 

I think a lot more should partake if circumstances are similar!