My son, Jordan and I were there yesterday. Def. a day for a shelter of some sort. Cold and very windy. Made it very hard to feel the very light bites while jiggin. Jordan got one and I got 2 with the biggest being 4.12oz.
We weighed them in at Jordan's store to get our chances at misc. prizes and saw 2 nice fish. We saw a 18+ and a 10+. The 18 had the spine and the tail of a rather large salmon sticking out of it's mouth. I wish I had taken a picture. What a pig!!!
Our group of 5 weighed in a total of 16 fish with the biggest 4.14oz. I lost our big fish pool by 2 ounces!!! Oh well, thats fishing. Hope they have a good day today.
I fished it as well with a buddy. Our 1st time on the lake. I got 4 lakers and he got two. We both got a 25 incher. They weighed 4 lbs 9 oz and 4lbs 10 oz. The others were anywhere from 2-3 1/2lb. The two biggest were caught on 10 inch live suckers. Dead smelt on the bottom amd a couple jigged made up the rest. Total lack of respect by people whizzing by our traps with a foot in some cases. This happened ALL DAY LONG. People didn't care. Tried waving people over or around to no avail. Awful. I won't be back
there was a picture of the 18# laker on the maine thread on ice shanty.com. i think they said it was about a 16 inch salmon they took from its gut! the biologist found it while studying the fish at weigh in.
Hey Joe G. just to let ya know It is nothing like that during trolling season, We've had times out there trolling when there was only 5-6 other boats around us Take Care God Bless and Don't let some idiots ruin a great lake for ya LOL Dave
after the first few weeks of iceout it thins out alot, everyone wants to be infront of the songo at that time, by june most of the local boats are after stripers and the lake is all yours. even at iceout, 30 to 40 trollers max and no pleasure boaters or skiers. by june a dozen or so trollers spread out over the lake, pretty peaceful. dont come up during the poker run later in the year. where joe fished its full of rifraf, too many drunk camps just north of where he put in. the west side is always quiet
