Had been out on Cooks Bay on Sunday with a friend. What a hoot. With the exception of some idiot busting the ice with his wheels, we had a stellar day.
It was a non stop bite from sunup to sundown. Lots of dinks with a 1 to 5 ratio for keepers. Man the keepers are getting fat.
Too much action for 2 lines, besides the dead stick produced nothing.
Rattle jigs were the dinner bell. Tipped with an Arkansas minnow it was deadly. Come late afternoon, the perch started to get finicky so I started alternating to different presentations of teardrops with Berkely maggots or salties, then back to a buckshot.
Had one bruiser of a pike cruise past the mouth of my hole, not interested in my wee offerings. There were some herring as well. One came up the hole to visit, and was sent back. I only took one pic while on the ice, after that the camera kinda got buried in the gear.
No problem bringing home a few quality meals.
For those complaining about the lack of dinner plate shots lately, I present the breakfast of champions
Home fries, a mess of perch, and a corn fritter. All washed down with a steaming hot mug of coffee and brandy