Were they biting for anyone else?

[Reel Time]

Up at Long point today and for the first ime in over a year we had no bites, not even a nibble we switched our presentations every 20 minutes and did'n't get nary a bite. Did this happen to anyone else today? I know I'm spoiled and expect a lot from the ol' lake but it was like the dead sea today. I did notice quite a few vehicles leaving the ice around 3 PM. We might have been too deep at 34 ft, but have fished at 35 this year once and caught a few. In the past 25 to 30 ft has been the best depth for us. Any thoughts?

[wallydiver]

I'm sure the weather didn't help matters much today. Did you have a flasher so you would know if there was any fish down there?

[Reel Time]

Nope I never really figured I needed one, I've always done decent without it, but my wife was with me and she got bored real fast. Maybe she will let me buy one now, I see a lot of people on this forum use them with good results.

[toddb]

We fished off Arnesons Reef in 35' yesterday and it was extremely slow for us. Nine walleyes, five were keepers. All were caught at least 4' off bottom. Also got one nice perch and 8 tulibees which were down there alot. Not one sauger, which really surprised me after the last two trips which we did really well on some nice sauger in the same spot.<P>later,<BR>toddb

[stubby1]

Don't feel bad on the poor fishing at long point.We were there too and only caught 3 eyes all day on saturday.I checked 3 other houses and they where in the same boat,less than 3 everywhere.I was using the vexilar at 31 feet and the fish where there but couldn't get em on the line.Oh well,may be next weekend. Good luck sinking those lines Stubby1

[jigemup]

we did better than three but it was slow we caught about 40 fish between four of us f ortunately we could keep 30 of those over 14 we were in 31 in long points houses nice houses but they never checked on us once in two days fishing this morning we set up ousr own portable and the morning bite was decent use jigging raps pound the botton the fish are laying on the bottom you cant see them on vex til they move 80 percent of fish on raps we fished up at the angle on sat and i got my magical over 30 a 31 incher 10 pounds 12 ozs other than that also slow

[Reel Time]

Had a better day than yesterday but not by much got 3 but should have had more. The eyes were biting extremely light most of the time. Fished in 30 ft this time. Virtually every bite was on a yellow type jig of one sort or another. I still love going up to LOW even without the fish numbers. The only thing that kills me is the 2 1/2 hour drive one way twice a day, makes for a long day. I'm glad to see some of you had luck, that's great!

[dougger222]

27.5 ft off of Zippel Bay was great Friday and Saturday. Largest eye 4lb. 3oz. with several eyes between one and tow pounds. Been fishing Zippel 10-20 days a year for five years best fishing I've seen yet. Did good in 17 ft. in early December.