Long Point Report 2/14-15

[Wall Eye]

Fished Long Point Saturday and Sunday. Took the road that goes to the east and set up were it was about 30 feet deep on Saturday. Had the most activity Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 but they were all small. It was a lot slower in the afternoon but the ones we did catch were better size. The wife caught one of those big perch, a nice sauger and a 2 lb walleye. I only managed one fish in the bucket but it was just under 3 lbs. Sunday morning set up in 32 feet of water and had two bites right away. While I was reeling mine up (a perch) the wife was bringing about a 1 1/2 lb walleye up out of the whole and it got off her hook. She's a trooper though and stuck her had in the water to try and get it before it swam down the hole. She had it for a second before it got away. She lost another walleye just at the bottom of the hole a little while later. Then it went dead. Nothing for a couple of hours. Tried everything in the tackle box and did not see anything on the vex. Decided to move about noon back to the spot we were at on Sat. When I was moving some guys were setting up while I was tearing down and they said they had taken the road to the west and had not had any luck. We managed to pick up a few saugers in the afternoon. Never did see anything come through suspended and did not catch any burbots.<P>The best lures were a multi-colored jig-n-eye the wife bought at the sporting goods store just outside of Warroad and a black and orange jig that I can only describe as having the shape of a short, fat bowling pin. Did not have much luck with anything gold which really surprised me.<P>Did not need to use the extension on the auger and did not have any water flooding up through the holes. All in all we had a good weekend on the ice.<P>Thanks to fisky for his advice on my earlier post!<P>

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