I Almost Totally Sucked

7:30AM-2:30PM Out Front of Eddy's
22-28℉, Cloudy Fog, 0-4SSE

I went to Bear Trax to pick up some small suckers and fatheads then back to Mille Lacs.  By the time I was walking out it was light enough out for me to see.  I went out to the area that guy was set up last night, then went a little deeper.  Put a fathead down, then went with the Do-Jigger Spoon with a minnow head.  Almost immediately fish on.  Halfway up it got off.  Sent it back down and a minute later fish on again came off again.  That may have happened a third time.  I was like what's up.  Then the bobber went down and I caught me an eye.  Thank goodness.  I put on a sucker this time.  About 10 minutes later the bobber went down.  I set the hook and it was a good one.  I didn't have the back reel button pressed.  As I was trying to do that the fish surged and broke the line up by the dropper.  My bad.  Was not happy.  That was the last quality bite.  I messed around with perch for a while.  Worked my way out as deep as I could go 19'.  Looked and played with perch the rest of the day.  When I went shallower than 15' feet, nothing was around.  Enjoyed the day, too bad more eyes didn't show up.

1 Eye
37 Perch

Late Bulldog Trip

7" Glow Demon/Minnow

My new rechargeable light $14 on eBay

7:45-10:00PM Bulldog Lake
17-15℉, Clear, Calm

I decided to go out fishing tonight because there was no wind.  I forgot maggies and wax worms, Doh!  I drilled holes in the general area I was last time.  Nobody else was out and I didn't see any other houses.  The light I bought on eBay lights up the interior really well. There were fish down there, but funky.  I tried minnow heads unsuccessfully for the most part.  I got two bites on a minnow catching one.  And at the very end of the night, I got a 7-incher on the Glow Demon Spoon with a minnow head and Power Wax Worm.  I really suck at fishing this year.

2 Crip 

Back at It On Rock

10.5" VMC Tungsten Jig w/maggots, Gulp Minnow

3:30-6:45PM
Conditions: Overcast, no wind, around 30 degrees

Got out a little earlier today.  I started at the holes I drilled yesterday.  Nothing was going on.  I left the house and tried in my original spot and got a small sunny on the VMC Jig and then nothing, so I went back to the house.  I started getting some crappies including the 10.5" on the VMC Jig.  Eventually I switched over to the Glow Demon and got a couple sunnies including a 7".  Only got about 3 crappies on a minnow tonight and probably a pike that I lost just below the hole.  At 6:00 I began running out of propane in my heater.  I tried the old holes for a bit and got one 9" crappie.  I went back to the house and got a couple more crappies and missed that pike.  I didn't want to get cold so I left.  A lot of 9" crappies tonight.

1 Pike???
3 Sunfish
17 Crappies

More Bullheads at Rock & Crappies/Sunfish

12.5" Glow Demon w/minnow

9.5" VMC Tungsten w/Gulp Minnow and waxie

8" VMC Tungsten w/Gulp Minnow and waxie 

3:45-7:35PM
Conditions: Overcast, Some light snow after 5:30, light wind out of the SE, temps near 30

I dinged around to much and got out about a half hour later than I wanted too.  I did find a replacement measuring board at Bear Trax.  Unfortunately you can't see the numbers;  I'll have to take a black permanent marker to it.  On my first minnow drop I had a really good fish on but it got off half way.  Probably a pike or bass.  Then there was nothing.  Note to self, always lead with a spoon or Rapala

At 4:15 I went and drilled a hole a little to the North of where I had been fishing.  I put down a #4 Rippin Rap and immediately fish came to it but wouldn't hit.  So I put down my new VMC Tungsten Jig (glow) with a Gulp Minnow with a waxie and immediately brought up a 9" crappie.  I got two more, then drilled another hole and got my stuff.  They were on the minnow immediately.  I missed the first couple bites but then I started catching them.  Then I got two bullheads in a row on the minnow.  Then I started getting some small sunfish on the VMC jig.  I got two 10 inch crappies on the minnow and one on the VMC that I kept and an 8" sunny which I didn't keep.  Eventually the fish got finicky.  I went and checked my other holes but nothing was there.  I went back and got a couple more 9 inchers.  I stopped fishing after my last 9 incher at 7:35PM

2 Bullheads
5 Sunfish
13 Crappies
and a bunch of missed fish