Wow, thats great!  Best report I've heard lately.

ICEHOLER wrote: Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught!

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  We just got back from two days of fishing and thought I'd tell how it went.  We where in house #5. We caught several nice perch, kept about 50 in total. Found that perch where spitting up shrimp, so we hooked those shrimp back on small jigs and using an Aqua-vu we could be selective on which perch we let take the bait. Kept taking it away from the small ones and dropping it to the bottom when a big perch came into view. Had lots of fun hope this info helps.           Kurt                                                

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hey bob dont ya think our groups owe bucky for all of our success last week  thank god for that chub being out there scouting around huh haha

Hey Brad, good to see you made it off the ice okay. But I think you should probably change your name to BOB. using your definition of "BOB".  Buckey is quite the fisherman, but I'm the detail guy. Did your group ever try the shrimp on jig?? If so how did it work for Ya?  I'm going to get my shack out on the ice this weekend down here. You can bet there will be a few BOBs around and the Icehole will be flowing. Later Kurt     ps say hi to "SHANK" for me.

Hi Troll, What I mean when I said shrimp is, We noticed that every time we brought a fish up they where regerging  what looks like fresh water shrimp about an inch plus long. So we hooked them back on a small teardrop jig. read my first post on this subject. I don't know if there are som soft plastics out there that mimic these shrimp, might be worth checking into.   Kurt

Thanks for the Info....This is my first year fishing out of Hunter's.
So far I'm Drawing a blank, but I have been fishing out of my Permant house.
Looks like the key is to use the house as home base and stay mobile.
I am currently out on 2-mile reef. Last Saturday While fishing during the day
I saw tons of 1-3 inch Perch, but no jumbos. Every time I started jigging I brought a dozen "Shrimp-Os" in. After dark, my flasher was almost usless due to the Perch collecting around my bait. I had half a dozen 1 inch Perch come up my holes and die????

Even the Walleye Whistle I bought from the guy out-side Johnsons' Portside failed to bring in the eyes. What's I guy to do??

I'll be up this Saturday to give it another try.

We started out using waxies, but switched to what I now know are called wigglers. We were also using the Aqua-vu to be more selective on fish. some started using gold color, I started with chartruse colors.    good luck Kurt

ha ya i thought you would recognize that fife, ya we're thinking about coming up again in a few weeks since we didnt get one walleye or even a nice pout  ha....kurt i dont think anyone tried the shrimp unless bucky did at sometime

thats cool, let me know how you do with them this weekend.