I have no idea why. You should have been pretty close to us and we successfully fished two Dipsys down in the 30 foot range. We did try a salmon fly rig for a while without a touch but spoons worked. The fish in the photo with Emil hit on a blue/silver spoon shown. It was the last we caught today and it was off a dipsy. It was not the hot spoon indicated in my post but blue/silver on any rod seemed to work.
Thanks. I’m surprised we couldn’t find one as well. Might try the sand bar tomorrow. See how the rain/wind plays out.
Yeah Bob....the battery in my camera was dead and the action was in fact pretty well non-stop especially fishing 6 rods which Emil likes to do. He's younger and still enjoys a little chaos.Sounds like another great day with the icefisherman... once again a fantastic job you guys!
Only 1 photo... obviously you guys were much too busy catching.
No meat. I really don't understand why others were not catching. Our own observation was that we simply didn't see others catching anything. That said our lines were almost always being hit. The only thing I can tell you is that larger spoons were useless. 100% of bites came on Northern King sized spoons or smaller. A friend fishing the south side of Lake O experienced the same phenomenon. They were also very successful.
Info provided by Ticker corresponds to our data except surface temperature was warmer where we were and on average we fished a little deeper. We also used a Fishawk and speed and temperature at the ball was the same and catching depth was also between 35 and 45 feet.
Do you change the hook at all? & nice fish!
Do you still use treble hooks?
