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2lb 9oz Hybrid Striper |
Sunday we were pretty confident that the lakes would be clear of ice so we headed to Rocky Fork Lake to do some crappie fishing. We arrived and quickly found out that there was still plenty of ice on the lake. The boat ramp we chose had ice well over a half inch on all but one section and the best section still had over a quarter inch. The ice was also not limited to just the boat ramp, it extended hundreds of yards out from the ramp into the main lake. Sean didn't hesitate to put the boat in anyway with intent to plow right through the ice. For the first attempt Sean decided to bust through some of the ice solo, I took the opportunity to film it.
It's safe to say I wasn't thrilled about riding through the ice myself. Sean circled around and picked us up and we were off. The ride was rough and loud. I took another video of the mayhem.
Once we made it out of the ice and into the main lake we found that many of our favorite crappie spots were also covered in ice. Originally we cleared them off by making several passes with the boat through the area. Some of the ice was up to 1.5 inches thick but we still managed to bust through it. Fishing was even slower than the previous day. It was several spots and hours before we found our first crappie. The water temperature was a chilling 34 degrees. We tried the traditional crappie baits such as minnow jigs/floats, small tube baits and swimbaits, and wax worms. On the day we only caught 6 crappie and 2 largemouth with only 1 of the crappie being keeper size.
Later in the day we learned a pretty effective way of clearing ice from a spot. Creating a large island or iceberg as I called them by cutting through the ice in a big loop and then pushing the island out with the boat was quite effective. I took a couple videos of Sean pushing out some pretty large pieces of ice.
We didn't catch many fish over the weekend but we still got out and enjoyed some decent weather and learned a thing or two.
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