Zippel Bay

[Fish Toys]

The younger brother was up to Zippel on 1/4/01 and they had good luck but they were small. He figured it was all the traffic on the lake. The resorts were putting their houses out and the people are driving vehicles on the lake. With this site up and running again the reports should be coming in. <BR>Thanks Rick for getting the site back in shape and running at a fast load time!<BR>Wayne “FISH” <BR><A HREF="http://www.icesaws.com" TARGET=_blank>www.icesaws.com</A><P><P>------------------<BR><A HREF="http://www.icesaws.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.icesaws.com/</A>

[Guest]

I'm heading up to Zippel in about another 15 minutes. We plan on going out west, and Settling down in about 25 feet of water. I'll Let everyone know how we did when we get back tonight.

[Guest]

We went just east of the farthest road sign, fishing at anywhere from 25'3" to 25'5" We did fairly well in the morning, then it died down until about noon. Around 3:30 we moved closer to the gap in the ice where they had the planks out, 15'7" deep, within ten minutes every line we had went down at least twice. <BR> We caught 1 Short of our limit of Walleye between the two of us, and 4 sauger to boot, not to mention two 4 lb, and one 10 lb burbot. The Walleye all had good size to em, including one just short of 20". We caught a lot of little ones that we had to throw back too, I'd say we caught about 30 Walleye and sauger. <BR> Asking around, it seemed like everyone else around us was doing well with sauger, but not so well with walleye.<BR>I don't know if this had to do with bait, but we alternated between glow in the dark yellow, pink, green, orange, and white jig baits with treble hooks, and fathead minnows. The shiners we brought with didn't do nearly as well. Everything was on, or directly after the jig. A lot of smaller fish are in the area though, if you go there expect to lose a lot of minnows.

[Guest]

yeah, it really does bother me that I can't see the last post :-/

[Guest]

Second Day of Zippel Bay action, plans are the same. Once again, Fishing report will come when I return. If anyone else is going out today, I would recommend Zippel, thats the only really hot spot I've heard of in the last week or so.

[Guest]

Another unbelievable day, We caught around 30 fish again filling out on nice eating sized walleyes, most around a pound, to a pound and a half. Nothing with a lot of size, but good action pretty much all day. We used the same lures as yesterday, in about 28 feet of water.<BR>

[Uncle Bill]

Are you accessing the lake at the State park ?

[Guest]

I'm not sure if it's the same place or not, We go out on the bay at Zippel Bay resort. I'd call them to ask about the ice conditions after these last two days :-(