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Author:
PECo
Date:
Feb 16, 2012
Subject:
Tyler Lake 02/16
Message:
After jonnyfly00 (aka Jon) and I saw that we couldn't get onto the ice at Dog Pond, we headed over to Tyler Lake. There were only three cars in the lot when we arrived at 8:45 am. The sky was totally overcast and there was no wind. The ice was still totally locked to the state boat launch ramp. It looked like there was more skim ice over the open water in the southwest corner of the lake than there was a couple of days ago. The water was clear down to seven or eight feet. We decided to set our traps in fairly shallow water only 50 yards south of the state boat launch ramp. We each set five in six to eight feet of water. I began jigging among the weeds in eight feet of water, while Jon slowly worked his way into the deeper water, down to 15 feet. I got a solid hit on my firetiger Hali right away and iced a largemouth bass. It was only a 14 inch long one pounder, but it was my first keeper of 2012. Whoo hoo! :D : [img:46b7b243c0]http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/8919/img1556cropped.jpg[/img:46b7b243c0] [img:46b7b243c0]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9765/img1557cropped.jpg[/img:46b7b243c0] Meanwhile, Jon was jigging up yellow perch in the deeper water. He iced six of them, but never really got into a concentrated school. After my bass, I got a few nibbles, but didn't set the hook on anything. I had to swap out my setup, because the handle on my Frabill Straight Line reel unscrewed itself. :? I began jigging a perch eye jig with a micro jig tied on about a foot above it. I got nada. At 11:00 am, I finally gave up on the shallower water and headed over to fish one of Jon's old holes in the deeper water. He came over to talk and just as I was telling him that I wasn't getting anything, I got a hit. :shock: : [img:46b7b243c0]http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/8123/img1558croppedjpg.jpg[/img:46b7b243c0] Go figure, after almost two hours of [b:46b7b243c0]NOTHING[/b:46b7b243c0], I get [b:46b7b243c0]A DOUBLE[/b:46b7b243c0] of 8-1/2 inch long yellow perch! :lol: Jon didn't jig up anything else, although he chased four flags. Unfortunately, one fish spit the shiner, two fish got off in the weeds and the one he iced was just a 13 inch chain pickerel. I got one false flag and that was it. My traps were a complete waste of time, today. However, I jigged up three more yellow perch and a 13 inch chain pickerel of my own: [img:46b7b243c0]http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/2673/img1560cropped.jpg[/img:46b7b243c0] Before we got off of the ice at 1:00 pm, a five mile per hour south breeze began to blow and it began to snow. For those who want to fish Tyler Lake this weekend, I'm confident that the ice will hold up fine. We found six to 7-1/2 inches of ice everywhere that we drilled holes. :D
Author:
Michael
Date:
Feb 16, 2012
Message:
Nice job
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Feb 17, 2012
Message:
Good times!
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