Thinking about hitting wawasee this weekend! Do you have to have a life preserver for each person on a state lake? Any one ever fish there? We have relation just off lake.

Hitting Summit in the morning.

Kick Steve right in the ice hole for me!!!!

No problem!

Im going tomorrow after noon and fish till dark. Got red, white spikes and mousies. h.h.

No you do not need a life preserver on the ice. I have not fished there in quite awhile, but I do know guys are fishing the slip. If you ask around someone will tell you where that is. Main lake ice didn't lock up until recently, so I would be a little cautious on the main lake.

Family lives near Oakwood resort. I was thinking that channel up through there to the Frog would be where we head. I will have to find out where the slip is at!

Had some success at Summit today with Quickfire and his son. Here's 33 of the 52 that were caught. I cleaned 19 and didn't think to take pics. :rolleyes:



Quickfire with a small crappie...



The brutal elements we had to endure... :p Note the fish being pulled up thru the hole on the right.

Weed, ice thickness? Looks about 5 inches from the pictures.

Had a blast weedy and can wait until you make another trip over. Maybe next time you will have some dam heath bars for me LOL

It was around 8" of ice.

I ran out of Heath bars.. I'll stock up for next time..soon!! Had a blast!

Dave, like Steve said,,a good healthy 8 inches of ice. I was actually surprised!

Thanks guys. I hoping to make it over there on Sunday, assuming the ice doesn't soften too much by then.

I fished a large gravel pit owned by Lafayette parks this evening. Drilled 8 holes and found 32' of water. Wasn't even close to the middle of lake. Vexilar never picked up a single fish!

I fished Pretty lake today with no success. I was the only one there. There was a good 16" of ice where I was. Going tomorrow again but not there. h.h.

Got blanked last evening on a lake in Fulton county. Marked a bunch and had a couple bites, but skunked in 2-3 hours of fishing.

Didn't I see a finder now where you do not have to drill a hole to operate the FF? I was thinking the transducer worked on top of the ice……if you put some water down and then laid the ducer in the water???

I bought a new Vexilar FL8 SE yesterday because I was tired of not knowing what was under my hole while ice fishing. Good thing about it was I needed a new flasher for my boat to attach to the new trolling motor i got. I just need a different transducer and the FL-8 is ready to go. Use in the summer for boating and winter for ice fishing. I actually killed two birds with one stone which is unusual for me. h.h.

Had a picture texted to me this morning of a friend on the ice in Switzerland County, 4 inches of ice supposedly, with a nice mess of fish laying on the ice. He said the bite was very good today.

Delaney, the ice should be fine Sunday no matter the temps are Saturday. It was slow out there today, only got 10 gills but they were nice one.

Thanks Quik. I came close to heading to Summit today but fell a little short on time. Got everything ready to go for Sunday.

A friend of mine is fishing on Shacamack and he said bite was slow yesterday and today. I fished my pond today and bite was slow. Im fishing again tomorrow somewhere but not sure where yet. h.h.

My son and I hit them this evening. Cleaned 15 with 5 over 8"! State lake but my lips are sealed! We had to work a little to find them. 13' water and caught most right on bottom. Hoping to hit it again tomorrow.

Good haul!!! We are hitting our crappie hole Saturday. Can't wait. You guys are killing me w/ the pics.

I've borrowed an 8-se and love it! Has for sure put some tough fish in our bucket! I plan to order one very soon! Man I can't wait to get back out, tonight was perfect weather!

Nice mess of gills, I got a fl-8 se and don't think I would fish without one. Makes it so much easier to get on the fish than fishing blind.

I need one of those Vexilars...

18 more tonight but I split with a buddy before I took pic. Slow tonight and had to move a little to find 8-10 of them.

so, is the ice gonna still hold until Sunday?

I think it will be sloppy on top tomorrow but we have been on 8 good inches

You should be ok. Still going to make ice at night.

i fished a small lake and pond today and bite is slow. fish are on the bottom. ice anywhere between 4-10". I caught some nice sized gills right before dark but not many. h.h.

We kept 26 today. All had to be over 8" or had to be thrown back. Only 1 crappie which was disappointing but what a good first day for us.

Did Luke catch any or did he just go along and watch?

I fished late day with a friend and his 7 year old daughter and we caught about a dozen with most being small. Fishing has been tough the past few days. Most guys are catching 4-10 fish on a trip. h.h.

Nice Bean. Ice fishing in shirt sleeves. Doesn't get much better.

Luke caught a bunch and the only crappie. We caught well over 60 today. I did lose one pole. Turned our backs and sucked it right down. 2 fish broke our lines.

Weather was awesome. I just don't understand why people choose not to enjoy God's creation. Great day on the ice with my son.

I have one place where we want to try for some crappie soon.

We fished this morning. I drilled more holes than we got fish! Very slow only landing 4. Ordered a fl-8se this afternoon after borrowing one all week. Looking forward to getting back out when we get cold again.

Still waiting for those coordinates...

Congrats guys! That's a great mess of fish!

Hey I caught more than you and dad :p

Oh and guess what I had for lunch when we were catching fish?