Thread: Cold Water Crappie

Broke the heater out for the first time this year. The lake was froze in places but we manage to break it up and let the wind blow it out of the way and start fishing. You wouldn't think there would be a fish for miles with all the noise we made breaking ice. It must act like a diner bell. I have done this in the past and had the same results with all the noise and just ware them out. Same thing happen yesterday. We broke up the ice let the wind do its job and wet a line. We had to dodge the gulls that were dive bombing the shad after we broke up the ice. Had nice fish yesterday one was 14 1/4 and thick. We used our shad body baits in the salt pepper clear glow and the icicle in chart. glow on a 1/32 head and 1/16 head. Water temps was 32.4 to 33.8 all day...enjoy