Morris Pt. 12/15 Report

[pmcrawler]

Went out of Morris Point yesterday. It is a safe area but stay away from Morris gap. 8-10" of ice everywhere with a rough surface (looks like waves were frozen on top). The resort is hauling permanent shacks out with a small jeep. Probably 75 already out there towards pine island. Fishing was awesome. 75 walleye and sauger in 5 hours. Go out to at least 22' of water straight out from the resort. If you have a shack, be sure to bring a 5 gallon bucket and the biggest slush scoop you can find like that hockey stick type or slush inhaler. There is a slush problem under the ice . After you drill a hole the slush keeps coming up. It is hard to get your bait down through this stuff. Then if you catch a fish more slush. Anyway, I finally went to a red glow spoon with rattles (with a minnow head)and was able to drop it through the slush. Good luck!

[Piker]

I was out of Morris on 12/14 in 21.5ft. There was about 10", like you said. The lake's not terribly rough, but it's a little choppy. I figured the bite would be better tomorrow. We caught only about 25 fish between three of us, but we had one 26". There will likely be pickup traffic out there next week as there were a few of those little SUV's and there should be over a foot of ice by Sunday AM. I wish I could make it back up there. 4/1 ratio of walleyes to saugers, so there were a lot less dinks. Great location.

[LOWinEYEin]

Excellent reports guys, keep'em coming.

[pmcrawler]

Hi Piker,

Did you guys have the slush problem also? I had 5 hours of slush coming up the hole???? Wish I would have brought my slush inhaler!

[wallydiver]

I was out there last Fri. and noticed the slush problem. You sure opened up a can of worms when you started cleaning the hole, didn't ya?

[icefishingdude]

sounds like the ice is starting to pile up and its about time....ill be on the lake next week for sure...just as soon as i can get back to the area for a while now...good luck with the fishing!!!

[Piker]

Actually I did have that same slush problem. I just thought the hole was augered poorly or something. Every fish we caught brought a bunch of slush with it. We caught one nice fish and the slush covered the hole and it's snout got caught on the ice. I had to have my buddy keep the tension on the line and grab it with my hand.

What do you think causes the slush? Is it under the ice all over the place and has nothing to do with poor hole cleaning? Wierd.

[GrouseHunt'R]

There was open water over towards Long Pt until Monday the 13th for sure and it could have stayed open past that yet with the wind. But the NW winds keep blowing the thin ice down and under the ice that is by Morris. Things probably got even worse when we had those 60MPH winds on the 12th. This wind just pushes the thin ice and slush further and further under the strong ice. Maybe some really cold temps will freeze up all that slush under there, or maybe it'll stay that way all year and we could have problems putting on ice near the shore line there.

[Offspring]

just returned from morris point tonight 12/17.fished in 25 ft. in the area between morris point and cyrus houses.we had no slush at all there.11 to 12 inches of ice,saw a 3/4 ton pickup with a plow just inside of us.we caught alot of 13 & 14 inch fish and 1 30 incher-10 lbs 8 ozs that was released. 11 year old had a ball!!!!!!!