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Ice fishing??

Hookmaster

By Hookmaster
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Tonka Thursday afternoon. The earliest I’ve ever been out in a boat on that lake. Most of the lake still had ice so that’s why I’m putting this in the ice fishing thread.😁 Didn’t find anything shallow. They were still where I caught them last October. Water temp was 41.2 in the bay and 42.4 in the shallow channel in the cattails. I think ice out will be Monday or Tuesday. Many would come up to the 1/16 oz jig but few would take it. Did best with a 4 mm tungsten jig.
Showing pics of the school on the Helix and the LiveScope to show the difference.
I was fishing the top of the school. None of the fish showed signs of barotrauma.

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Was on Tonka yesterday. Bays open that I saw were Stubbs, Maxwell, North Arm, Crystal, Smiths and LaFayette. Carmens was open from what I could see from county road 19. Browns was locked up which also stopped the water patrol on their ice out excursion.
I tried a few shallow channel areas and didn’t find any panfish in them yet. Saw ~5 hammer handles and a fungus covered carp that looked like a ghost and could go belly up at any moment. Panfish still deep and less cooperative than last Thursday. Only boated 1. I did mark some in 10-15 ft off some weeds but they wouldn’t bite either. Yard work today and I’ll give it another try tomorrow.

Tonka main bays were 44 up 3 degrees from last Thursday. Shallows varied between 45 and 47, up from 42 last Thursday.

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Drove around some of Minnetonka today. Most backwaters have froze over and some dock areas that have turned off aeration have also. A few rigs out.

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Well this suks!  40 degrees and rain tommrow here!  ☹️

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1 hour ago, smurfy said:

What you talkin about willis!

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I said tomorrow!  

 

Maybe this will help? 🤭

 

Kamala Harris 

 

“Today is today, and yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today, tomorrow. So live today, so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow,”

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