Just tap it tap tap tap it

Today I went to a local res and wasnt really thinking I was going to catch much since I havnt yet.

My brother in law park and start unpacking our things when a gentleman shows up and after a bit of talking he informed us that we SHOULD catch a load of perch.


After working the bank near shore (where we usually fish open water) we continued to move.

Since the gentleman we talked to walked by us and ended up in the middle of the lake we worked our way toward him.

We worked some sip ups with medium shiners dead and alive along with pieces of fish on the tip ups with good success.

We also Jigged baited Swedish pimple and what I call the air plane. My brother in-law added gulp maggots, while at first I did the same I ended up using small chunks of shiner.

We Jigged any where from the ground to about 8-10 inches off the bottom and caught them through out the day.

JIGGING
In-law caught one small bass
I caught 2 cat fish which surprised me a lot but, was very fun to real in
A lot of perch unsure how many we stopped counting

Tip-ups a bunch of perch

I kept about 5 or 6 perch for my father and through the rest back

I will have some pics asap

My 7 year old also came out later in the day and helped pull up some perch on the tip up.


Total hours about - 6
Total fish - not sure but, enough to make me happy

I forgot my food at home and went 6 hours without food I was very tempted to eat a minnow or raw perch meat!


EDIT
I would like to add that there was about 4 times that we had caught fish on the tip ups and as soon as we put the line back in the water we had another fish hooked and ready to be taken out of the ice.

Where's the pics? Goota love fast and furious jigging? Cwood Humpy size?

Good report mike,sounds like you had a good outing

We caught some more, here is one white perch we caught

Mike I have a small crew set for saturday if you want to join let me know. I bought all new tipups so i have extras now. Call me if you want to meet us. Ill let you know where....